Spirits Flashcards
‘The chain i forged in life…yard by yard; I girded it on my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it. Is it’s pattern strange to you?’
Q1
‘Mankind was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence were all…my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!’
Q2
‘It was a strange figure-like a child: yet not so like a child as like an old man, viewed through some supernatural medium…appearance of being receded’
Q3
‘The strangest thing about it was, that from the crown of its head there sprang a bright clear jet of light’
Q4
‘it looked upon him with a face, in which in some strange way there were fragments of all the faces it had shown him, wrestled with it’
Q5
‘a holly wreath, set here and there with shining icicles. It’s dark-brown curls were long and free; free as its genial face…unconstrained demeanour’
Q6
‘Claim to know us, and who do their deeds of passion, pride, ill-will, hatred, envy, bigotry, and selfishness in our name, who are strange to us’
Q7
‘If these shadows remain unaltered by the future none others…will find him here. What then? If he be like to die, he had better do it, and decrease the surplus’
Q8
‘Blessings upon it, how the ghost exulted! How it bared its breadth of breast, and opened its capacious palm… outpouring with a generous hand’
‘The phantom slowly gravely, silently approached. When it came near him, Scrooge bent down’
Q10
‘scatter gloom and misery. It was shrouded in a deep black garment, which concealed its head, its face, its form, and let nothing visible save one outstretched hand’.
Q11
“It thrilled him with a vague, uncertain horror to know that behind the dusky shroud, there were ghostly eyes intently fixed upon him,’
Q12
