stiffened his gait; made his eyes red, his thin lips blue and spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice. repetition of "sole" emphasizes the fact that Scrooge was all Marley had, implying that M was also all S had. Not to know that any Christian spirit working kindly in its little sphere, whatever it may be, will find its mortal life too short for its vast means of usefulness.

The CGP range for English Literature also includes a matching Text Guide (9781782943099), which contains all the notes and practice you need to really master A Christmas Carol! It swung so softly in the outset that it scarcely made a sound; but soon it rang out loudly, and so did every bell in the house. Scrooge had a very small fire, but the clerk’s fire was so very much smaller that it looked like one coal.Already, the poor townsfolk are elevated above Scrooge in moral standing – he is a caricature of a lonely miser.

In they all came, one after another; some shyly, some boldly, some gracefully, some awkwardly, some pushing, some pulling; in they all came, anyhow and everyhow. The Ghost smiled thoughtfully , and waved its hand: saying as it did so, `Let us see another Christmas. But they and their spirit voices faded together; and the night became as it had been when he walked home.The door of Scrooge’s counting-house was open that he might keep his eye upon his clerk , who in a dismal little cell beyond, a sort of tank, was copying letters . There was nothing they wouldn’t have cleared away, or couldn’t have cleared away, with old Fezziwig looking on. Marley's ghost alerts Scrooge to his greatest misconception - that making money is more important than building friendships. He spoke so gently to me one dear night when I was going to bed, that I was not afraid to ask him once more if you might come home; and he said Yes, you should; and sent me in a coach to bring you. We reserve the right to discontinue the Service prior to the expiry date of your access to your title(s).

Poulterers’ and grocers’ trades became a splendid joke; a glorious pageant, with which it was next to impossible to believe that such dull principles as bargain and sale had anything to do.

They charged into the street with the shutters -- one, two, three -- had them up in their places -- four, five, six -- barred them and pinned then -- seven, eight, nine -- and came back before you could have got to twelve, panting like race-horses. As to measuring her waist in sport, as they did, bold young brood, I couldn’t have done it; I should have expected my arm to have grown round it for a punishment, and never come straight again. At the ominous word `liberality,’ Scrooge frowned, and shook his head, and handed the credentials back .