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Character
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Stave
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“Scrooge took his melancholy dinner in his usual melancholy tavern; and having read all the newspapers [...] went home to bed.”
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Narrator
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1
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“Your lip is trembling [...] and what is that upon your cheek?”
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Ghost of Christmas Past
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2
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“What was merry Christmas to Scrooge? Out upon merry Christmas! What good had it ever done to him?”
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Narrator
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2
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“A solitary child, neglected by his friends, is left there still.”
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Ghost of Christmas Past
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2
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“It opened before them, and disclosed a long, bare, melancholy room, made barer still by lines of plain deal forms and desks. At one of these a lonely was reading near a feeble fire; and Scrooge sat down upon a form, and wept to see his poor forgotten self as he used to be.”
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Narrator
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2
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“Father is so much kinder than he used to be, that home’s like Heaven!”
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Fran
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2
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“I could scarcely help seeing him. His partner lies upon the point of death, I hear; and there he sat alone. Quite alone in the world, I do believe.”
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Belle’s husband
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2
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“However, his offences carry their own punishment, and I have nothing to say against him.”
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Fred
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3
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“‘What of that, my dear?’ said Scrooge’s nephew. ‘His wealth is of no use to him. He don’t do any good with it. He don’t make himself comfortable with it.’”
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Fred
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3
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“The consequence of his taking a dislike to us, and not making merry with us, is, as I think, that he loses some pleasant moments, which could do him no harm. I am sure he loses pleasanter companions than he can find in his own thoughts, either in his mouldy old office, or his dusty chambers.”
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Fred
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3
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“‘It’s likely to be a very cheap funeral,’ said the same speaker; ‘for upon my life I don’t know of anybody to go to it. Suppose we make up a party and volunteer?’”
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Business- man
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4
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“If he wanted to keep them after he was dead, a wicked old screw [...] why wasn’t he natural in his lifetime? If he had been, he’d have had somebody to look after him when he was struck with Death, instead of lying gasping out his last there, alone by himself.”
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Pawnshop woman
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4
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“She was a mild and patient creature if her face spoke truth; but she was thankful in her soul to hear it, and she said so, with clasped hands. She prayed forgiveness the next moment, and was sorry; but the first was the emotion of her heart.”
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Narrator
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4
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