|
Quote
|
Character
|
Stave
|
|
“Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail.”
|
Narrator
|
1
|
|
“There is no doubt that Marley was dead. This must be distinctly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate.”
|
Narrator
|
1
|
|
“Marley’s face. It was not in impenetrable shadow as the other objects in the yard were, but had a dismal light about it, like a bad lobster in a dark cellar.”
|
Narrator
|
1
|
|
“A clanking noise, deep down below; as if some person were dragging a heavy chain over the casks.”
|
Narrator
|
1
|
|
“If that spirit goes not forth in life, it is condemned to do so after death. It is doomed to wander through the world.”
|
Narrator
|
1
|
|
“Without their visits [...] you cannot hope to shun the path I tread.”
|
Marley
|
1
|
|
“The air was filled with phantoms, wandering hither and thither in restless haste, and moaning as they went. Every one of them wore chains like Marley’s Ghost.”
|
Narrator
|
1
|
|
“It was a strange figure – like a child: yet not so like a child as like an old man, viewed through some supernatural medium, which gave him the appearance of having receded from the view, and being diminished to a child’s proportions. Its hair, which hung about its neck and down its back, was white as if with age; and yet the face had not a wrinkle in it, and the tenderest bloom was on the skin.”
|
Narrator
|
2
|
|
“From the crown of its head there sprung a bright clear jet of light, by which all was visible, and which was doubtless the occasion of its using, in its duller moments, a great extinguisher for a cap”
|
Narrator
|
2
|
|
“He was conscious of a thousand odours floating in the air, each one connected with a thousand thoughts, and hopes, and joys, and cares long, long, forgotten.”
|
Narrator
|
2
|
|
“Scrooge pressed it down with all his force, he could not hide the light, which streamed from under it, in an unbroken flood upon the ground.”
|
Narrator
|
2
|
|
“There sat a jolly Giant, glorious to see: who bore a glowing torch, in shape not unlike Plenty’s horn, and held it up, high up, to shed light on Scrooge.”
|
Narrator
|
3
|
|
“I see a vacant seat [...] in the poor chimney-corner, and a crutch without an owner, carefully preserved. If these shadows remain unaltered by the Future, the child will die.”
|
Ghost of Christmas Present
|
3
|
|
“Scrooge crept towards it, trembling as he went; and following the finger, read upon the stone of the neglected grave his own name, EBENEZER SCROOGE.”
|
Narrator
|
4
|
