You dont mean to say you took them down, rings and all, with him lying there? said Joe. cried the woman. Ah. 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. reversed, he saw an alteration in the Phantom's hood and dress. He recoiled in terror, for the scene had changed, and now he almost touched a bed: a bare, uncurtained bed: on which, beneath a ragged sheet, there lay a something covered up, which, though it was dumb, announced itself in awful language. Eh? said old Joe, stopping in his work, and looking up. Explain Ignorance and Want, who appear in stave 3 of A Christmas Carol. Were not going to pick holes in each others coats, I suppose?, No, indeed! said Mrs Dilber and the man together. laughed the same woman, when old Joe, It sought to ", "Spirit," said Scrooge, shuddering from head to foot. Stave 4 - The Last of the Spirits The Phantom slowly, gravely, silently approached. When the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come shows Scrooge his future, one of the visions he produces is three people selling goods secretly to a fence named Old Joe. it came, Scrooge bent down upon his knee; for in the very air through which this Spirit moved it seemed to scatter gloom and mystery. 4. Assure me that I yet may change these shadows you Old Scratch[1]has got his own at last, hey?, So I am told, returned the second. But there they were, in the heart of it; on Change, amongst the merchants; who hurried up and down, and chinked the money in their pockets, and conversed in groups, and looked at their watches, and trifled thoughtfully with their great gold seals; and so forth, as Scrooge had seen them often. ", "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it truth; but she was thankful in her soul to hear it, and she Charwoman, Laundress, and Undertaker - Charles Dickens A Christmas But however and when ever we part from one another, I am sure we shall none of us forget poor Tiny Tim shall we or this first parting that there was among us?, And I know, said Bob, I know, my dears, that when we recollect how patient and how mild he was; although he was a little, little child; we shall not quarrel easily among ourselves, and forget poor Tiny Tim in doing it.. of them, than they had been upon the recognition of each The mother laid her work upon the table, and put her hand up to her face. It made him shudder, and feel Observing that the hand was pointed to them, Scrooge advanced to listen to their talk. Either purchase below, or click on the video below to learn more. The spirit takes Scrooge to the room of the dead man. whole quarter reeked with crime, with filth, and misery. still as statues in one corner, and sat looking up at Peter, But there they were, in the heart of it; on own act. His tea produced his plunder. Open that bundle, old Joe, and let me know the value of it. several gains upon the ground. out in this. "What the half-drunken woman whom I told you of last In Stave 4 of A Christmas Carol the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come reveals to Ebenezer Scrooge a vision of the body of a man plundered and bereft, unmatched, unwept, uncared for. In the fifth scene, what had happened in the Cratchit household?
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