Christmas Carol Stave 1 Part 2 Flashcards
Fog
‘the fog came pouring in’
Merry christmas
“A Merry Christmas, uncle! God save you!” cried a cheerful voice’
Glow
’ he was all in a glow’
Sparkled
’ his eyes sparkled ‘
Scrooge is famous line in stave 1
’ Bah!….Humbug!’
Done me good
‘I believe it has done me good and will do me good’
Keep christmas
‘I’ll keep my Christmas humour to the last’
Scrooge question
‘Are there no prisons?’
Charitable collections
21.‘We choose this time, because it is a time, of all others, when Want is
keenly felt, and Abundance rejoices’
Scrooges response
22.‘Nothing!’
Population
23.‘If they would rather die… they had better do it, and decrease the
surplus population’
Business
24.‘It’s not my business’
Fog and darkness
25.‘Meanwhile the fog and darkness thickened so’
Cold
26.‘The cold became intense’
Lighted
27.‘Had lighted a great fire in a brazier, round which a party of ragged
men and boys were gathered: warming their hands and winking their
eyes before the blaze in rapture’
Poor excuse
28.‘A poor excuse for picking a man’s pocket every twenty-fifth of
December!’
Camden Town
29.‘The clerk…went down a slide…and then ran home to Camden Town’.
Melancholy dinner
30.‘Scrooge took his melancholy dinner in his usual melancholy tavern’
Marley was dead
31.‘Marley was dead, to begin with’.
Sole
32.‘sole mourner’, ‘sole friend’
Knocker
33.‘not a knocker, but Marley’s face’
Darkness is
34.‘Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it’.
Chain
35.‘The chain he drew was clasped around his middle’
describing the chain
36.‘It was long…made of cash-boxes, keys, padlocks, ledgers, deeds and
heavy purses wrought in steel’.
