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stave 1 scrooge taking about being marlyes sole

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Scrooge was his sole executor, his sole administrator, his sole assign, his sole residuary legatee, his sole friend, and sole mourner

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stave 1

frost head

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A frosty rime above his head, and on his eyebrows, and his wiry chin

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stave 1

description of Fred

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his face was ruddy and handsome: his eyes sparkeld, and his breath smoked again

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stave 1

why the portly gentlemen come round

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Many thousand are in want of common necessaries; hundreds of thousands are in want of common comforts

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stave 1

scrooge asking why the poor aren’t being helped

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Are there no prisions
and the union workhouses
the treadmill and the poor law are in full vigour, then?

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stave 1

scrooge after work

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scrooge took his melancholy dinner in his usual melancholy tavern

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stave 1

signs of Marleys ghost

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saw in the knocker not a knocker but Marley’s face

thought he saw a locomotive hearse going on before him in the gloom

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stave 2

appearance of the ghost of christmas past

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its legs and feet, most delicately formed, were, like those upper members, bare

tunic of the purest white

held a branch of fresh green holly

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stave 2

description of Fizziwig

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called out in a comfortable, oily, rich, fat, jovial voice

fuel was heaped upon the fire

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stave 2

fezziwig dancing

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but if they had been twice as many ah four times fezziwig would have been a match for them

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stave 2

fizziwig saying goodbye at the party

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shaking hands with every person individually

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stave 2

fizziwig being god

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he has the power to render us happy or unhappy

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stave 2

being displaced

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what idol has displaced you? he rejoined
a golden one

are contract is an old one

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stave 2

what could have been with belle

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having his daughter leaning fondly on him, sat down with her and her mother at his own fireside

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stave 3

description of ghost of Christmas present

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it was clothed in one simple deep green robe, or mantle, boarded with white fur

holly wreath

but no sword in it, and the ancient sheath was eaten with rust

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stave 3

dress of miss crachit

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Then up rose Mrs Cratchit, Cratchit’s wife, dressed out but poorly in a twice turned gown, but brave in ribbons, which are cheap

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stave 3

ing verbs describing the crachits

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plunged
rejoiced
tearing
screaming
bubbling
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stave 3

team work of the crachits

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young cratchits went to fetch the goose

Mrs Crachit made the gravy

Master peter mashed the potatoes

Miss Belinda sweetened up the apple sauce

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stave 3

description of want and ignorance

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wretched, abject, frightful, hideous, miserable

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stave 3 ignorance and want

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where graceful youth should have filled their features

they are man’s

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stave 5

chuckling

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The chuckle with which he said this, and the chuckle with which he paid for the turkey, and the chuckle with which he paid for the cab, and the chuckle with which he recompensed the boy

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stave 5

lighting up the fire

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Make up the fires and buy another coal-scuttle

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stave 5

helping tiny tim

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he did it all and infinitely more; and to Tiny Tim who did not die, he was a second father

24
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stave 5

laughing heart

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His own heart laughed, and that was quite enough for him

25
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stave 4

disgusting gentle men

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i don’t mind going if lunch is provided

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stave 4

frightened away people

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He frightened everyone away from him when he was alive, to profit us when he was dead

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stave 4 thankful family

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she was thankful in her soul to hear it

hearts were lighter

28
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stave 4

memorys of tim

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i have known him walk with Tiny Tim upon his shoulder very fast

29
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stave 4

tiny tims grave

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done you good to see how green a place it is

He broke down all at once

30
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stave 4

scrooges grave

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walled in by houses; overrun by grass and weeds, the growth of vegetation’s death, not life; choked up with too much burying

31
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stave 4

begging it not to be him

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No, spirt! oh, no, no!

32
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stave 1 describing scrooge

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squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner

33
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stave 1 scrooge the oster

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solitary as a oyster

34
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stave 1 killing poor scrooge

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if they would rather die, they had better do it and decrease the surplus population

35
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stave 5 similes of feather

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i am as light as a feather, i am as merry as a school girl

36
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stave 4 honouring christmas

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i will honour christmas in my heart, i will live in the past, the present, and the future. i will not shut out the lessons that they teach

37
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stave 2 light of the ghost

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would you so soon put out…the light i give?

38
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stave 2 neglected at school

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a solitary child, neglected by his friends, is left there still - scrooge sobbed

39
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stave 2 his nephew

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one child: true! your nephew!

40
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stave 2 scrooge at fezziwigs

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scrooge’s heart and soul were in the scene…he remebered everything, enjoyed everything

41
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stave 3 ghost and tourch

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a jolly giant who bore a glowing tourch with a cheery voice and a joyful air

42
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stave 2 scrooge the ogre

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scrooge was the ogre of the family and the mention of his name cast a dark shadow

43
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stave 3 allogery creatures

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they are mans. this boy is ignorance. this girl is want. beware for i see that written which is doom

44
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stave 4 description of ghost

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deep black garment which conceled its head, its face, its form and left nothing visible execept one hand

45
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stave 4 looking at the grave

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scrooge crept towards it, trembling, and following the finger, read upon the stone of the neglected arave his own name

46
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stave 5 asking for dinner

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i have come to dinner will you let me in fred?

47
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stave 1 little coal

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the clerk’s fire was so very much smaller that it looked like only one coal!

48
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stave 1 chains of marley

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i wear the chain i forged in life….the chain was made up of cash boxes…ledgers…heavy purses

49
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stave 5 being better than his word

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scrooge was better than his word. he did it all and became as good a friend, as good a master, and as good a man, as the good old city know

50
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stave 3 mrs cratchit angry at scrooge

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mr scrooge. i’d give him a peice of my mind. an odious, stingy, hard, unfeeling man

51
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stave 2 losing aspirations and angry at ghost

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i have seen your nobler aspirations fall off, until the master passion, gain engrosses you

no more show me no more!

52
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stave 2 bring scrooge home

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i have come to bring you home dear brother …home home home

you are quite a woman little fan

53
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stave 2 seeing fezz again

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bless his heart; it’s fezziwig alive again!

54
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stave 1 why are you in a bad mood

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what reason have you to be romorse? you’re rich enought

55
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stave 1 what fred thinks of christmas

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i have always thought of christmas as a good time. a kind, forgiving, charitable pleasant time

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