Stave 2 - Key Quotes
Stave 2 - Key Quotes
'He spoke before the hour bell sounded, which it now did with a deep, dull hollow, melancholy ONE. Light flashed up in the room upon the instant, and the curtains of his bed were drawn.' - Narrator
'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, nd the tenderest bloom was on the skin. The arms were very long and muscular; the hands the same, as if its hold were of uncommon strength. Its legs and feet, most delicately formed, were, like those upper members, bare. It held a branch of fresh green holly in its hand: and, in singular contradiction of that wintry emblem, had its dress trimmed with summer flowers. But the strangest thing about it was, that from the crown of its head there sprung a bright clear jet of light, by which all this was visible; and which was doubtless the occasion of its using, in its duller moments, a great extinguisher for a cap, which it now held under its arm' - Narrator
'now a thing with one arm, now with one leg, now with twenty legs, now a pair of legs without a head, now a head without a body' - Narrator
'"Are you the Spirit, sir, whose coming was foretold to me?"' - Scrooge
'"I am the Ghost of Christmas Past"' - The Ghost of Christmas Past
'"What! (...) would you so soon put out, with worldly hands, the light I give?"' - The Ghost of Christmas Past
'"Rise! and walk with me!"' - The Ghost of Christmas Past
'"I am a mortal," Scrooge remonstrated, "and liable to fall."' - Scrooge
'"I was a boy here!"' - Scrooge
'"These are but shadows of the things that have been," said the Ghost. "They have no consciousness of us."' - The Ghost of Christmas Past
'Why was he rejoiced beyond all bounds to see them? Why did his cold eye glisten, and his heart leap up as they went past? Why was he filled with gladness when he heard them give each other Merry Christmas, as they parted a cross-roads and by-ways for their several homes? What was merry Christmas to Scrooge? Out upon merry Christmas! What good had it ever done to him?' - Narrator
'"A solitary child, neglected by his friends, is left there still."' - The Ghost of Christmas Past
'Scrooge said he knew it. And he sobbed.' - Narrator
'a lonely boy was reading near a feeble fire' - Narrator
'"There was a boy singing a Christmas Carol at my door last night. I should have liked to have given him something: that's all."' - Scrooge
'"I have come to bring you home, dear brother!" said the child, clapping her tiny hands, and bending down to laugh. "To bring you home, home, home!"' - Fan
'"Home for good and all. Home for ever and ever. Father is so much kinder than he used to be, that home's like Heaven! 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. And you're to be a man!" said the child, opening her eyes; "and are never to come back here; but first we're to be together all the Christmas long, and have the merriest time in all the world."' - Fan
'"She died a woman (...) and had, as I think, children."' - The Ghost of Christmas Past
'It was made plain enough, by the dressing of the shops, that here, too, it was Christmas-time again; but it was evening, and the streets were lighted up.' - Narrator
'"Why, it's old Fezziwig! Bless his heart, it's Fezziwig alive again!"' - Scrooge
'You wouldn't believe how those two fellows went at it! They charged into the street with the shutters - one, two, three - had 'em up in their places - four, five six - barred 'em and pinned 'em - seven, eight, nine - and came back before you could have got to twelve, panting like race-horses.' - Narrator
'In came a fiddler with a music-book, and went up to the lofty desk, and made an orchestra of it, and tuned like fifty stomach-aches. In came Mrs Fezziwig, one vast substantial smile. In came the three Miss Fezziwigs, beaming and lovable. In came the six young followers whose hearts they broke. In came all the young men and women employed in the business. In came the housemaid, with her cousin, the baker. In came the cook, with her brother's particular friend, the milkman. In came the boy from over the way, who was suspected of not having board enough from his master; trying to hide himself behind the girl from next door but one, who was proved to have had her ears pulled by her mistress. 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. Away they all went, twenty couple at once; hands half round and back again the other way; down the middle and up again; round and round in various stages of affectionate grouping; old top couple always turning up in the wrong place; new top couple starting off again, as soon as they got there; all top couples at last, and not a bottom one to help them. When this result was brought about, old Fezziwig, clapping his hands to stop the dance, cried out, "Well done!" and the fiddler plunged his hot face into a pot of porter, especially provided for that purpose. But scorning rest, upon his reappearance, he instantly began again, though there were no dancers yet, as if the other fiddler had been carried home, exhausted, on a shutter, and he were a bran-new man resolved to beat him out of sight, or perish.' - Narrator
'During the whole of this time Scrooge had acted like a man out of his wits. His heart and soul were in the scene, and with his former self.' - Narrator
'"I should like to be able to say a word or two to my clerk just now. That's all."' - Scrooge
'He was older now; a man in the prime of life.' - Narrator
'sat by the side of a fair young girl in a mourning dress: in whose eyes there were tears, which sparkled in the light that shone out of the Ghost of Christmas Past,' - Narrator
'"You fear the world too much," she answered gently. "All your other hopes have merged into the hope of being beyond the chance of its sordid reproach. I have seen your nobler aspirations fall off one by one, until the master passion, Gain, engrosses you. Have I not?"' - Belle
'"You are changed."' - Belle
'"Spirit!" said Scrooge, "show me no more! Conduct me home. Why do you delight to torture me?"' - Scrooge
'"Quite alone in the world, I do believe."' - Belle's husband
'"Leave me! Take me back! Haunt me no longer!"' - Scrooge
'He was conscious of being exhausted, and overcome by an irresistible drowsiness; and, further, of being in his own bedroom. He gave the cap a parting squeeze, in which his hand relaxed; and had barely time to reel to bed before he sank into a heavy sleep.' - Narrator
'He spoke before the hour bell sounded, which it now did with a deep, dull hollow, melancholy ONE. Light flashed up in the room upon the instant, and the curtains of his bed were drawn.' - Narrator
'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, nd the tenderest bloom was on the skin. The arms were very long and muscular; the hands the same, as if its hold were of uncommon strength. Its legs and feet, most delicately formed, were, like those upper members, bare. It held a branch of fresh green holly in its hand: and, in singular contradiction of that wintry emblem, had its dress trimmed with summer flowers. But the strangest thing about it was, that from the crown of its head there sprung a bright clear jet of light, by which all this was visible; and which was doubtless the occasion of its using, in its duller moments, a great extinguisher for a cap, which it now held under its arm' - Narrator
'now a thing with one arm, now with one leg, now with twenty legs, now a pair of legs without a head, now a head without a body' - Narrator
'"Are you the Spirit, sir, whose coming was foretold to me?"' - Scrooge
'"I am the Ghost of Christmas Past"' - The Ghost of Christmas Past
'"What! (...) would you so soon put out, with worldly hands, the light I give?"' - The Ghost of Christmas Past
'"Rise! and walk with me!"' - The Ghost of Christmas Past
'"I am a mortal," Scrooge remonstrated, "and liable to fall."' - Scrooge
'"I was a boy here!"' - Scrooge
'"These are but shadows of the things that have been," said the Ghost. "They have no consciousness of us."' - The Ghost of Christmas Past
'Why was he rejoiced beyond all bounds to see them? Why did his cold eye glisten, and his heart leap up as they went past? Why was he filled with gladness when he heard them give each other Merry Christmas, as they parted a cross-roads and by-ways for their several homes? What was merry Christmas to Scrooge? Out upon merry Christmas! What good had it ever done to him?' - Narrator
'"A solitary child, neglected by his friends, is left there still."' - The Ghost of Christmas Past
'Scrooge said he knew it. And he sobbed.' - Narrator
'a lonely boy was reading near a feeble fire' - Narrator
'"There was a boy singing a Christmas Carol at my door last night. I should have liked to have given him something: that's all."' - Scrooge
'"I have come to bring you home, dear brother!" said the child, clapping her tiny hands, and bending down to laugh. "To bring you home, home, home!"' - Fan
'"Home for good and all. Home for ever and ever. Father is so much kinder than he used to be, that home's like Heaven! 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. And you're to be a man!" said the child, opening her eyes; "and are never to come back here; but first we're to be together all the Christmas long, and have the merriest time in all the world."' - Fan
'"She died a woman (...) and had, as I think, children."' - The Ghost of Christmas Past
'It was made plain enough, by the dressing of the shops, that here, too, it was Christmas-time again; but it was evening, and the streets were lighted up.' - Narrator
'"Why, it's old Fezziwig! Bless his heart, it's Fezziwig alive again!"' - Scrooge
'You wouldn't believe how those two fellows went at it! They charged into the street with the shutters - one, two, three - had 'em up in their places - four, five six - barred 'em and pinned 'em - seven, eight, nine - and came back before you could have got to twelve, panting like race-horses.' - Narrator
'In came a fiddler with a music-book, and went up to the lofty desk, and made an orchestra of it, and tuned like fifty stomach-aches. In came Mrs Fezziwig, one vast substantial smile. In came the three Miss Fezziwigs, beaming and lovable. In came the six young followers whose hearts they broke. In came all the young men and women employed in the business. In came the housemaid, with her cousin, the baker. In came the cook, with her brother's particular friend, the milkman. In came the boy from over the way, who was suspected of not having board enough from his master; trying to hide himself behind the girl from next door but one, who was proved to have had her ears pulled by her mistress. 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. Away they all went, twenty couple at once; hands half round and back again the other way; down the middle and up again; round and round in various stages of affectionate grouping; old top couple always turning up in the wrong place; new top couple starting off again, as soon as they got there; all top couples at last, and not a bottom one to help them. When this result was brought about, old Fezziwig, clapping his hands to stop the dance, cried out, "Well done!" and the fiddler plunged his hot face into a pot of porter, especially provided for that purpose. But scorning rest, upon his reappearance, he instantly began again, though there were no dancers yet, as if the other fiddler had been carried home, exhausted, on a shutter, and he were a bran-new man resolved to beat him out of sight, or perish.' - Narrator
'During the whole of this time Scrooge had acted like a man out of his wits. His heart and soul were in the scene, and with his former self.' - Narrator
'"I should like to be able to say a word or two to my clerk just now. That's all."' - Scrooge
'He was older now; a man in the prime of life.' - Narrator
'sat by the side of a fair young girl in a mourning dress: in whose eyes there were tears, which sparkled in the light that shone out of the Ghost of Christmas Past,' - Narrator
'"You fear the world too much," she answered gently. "All your other hopes have merged into the hope of being beyond the chance of its sordid reproach. I have seen your nobler aspirations fall off one by one, until the master passion, Gain, engrosses you. Have I not?"' - Belle
'"You are changed."' - Belle
'"Spirit!" said Scrooge, "show me no more! Conduct me home. Why do you delight to torture me?"' - Scrooge
'"Quite alone in the world, I do believe."' - Belle's husband
'"Leave me! Take me back! Haunt me no longer!"' - Scrooge
'He was conscious of being exhausted, and overcome by an irresistible drowsiness; and, further, of being in his own bedroom. He gave the cap a parting squeeze, in which his hand relaxed; and had barely time to reel to bed before he sank into a heavy sleep.' - Narrator
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