There is hope yet, Caroline.'' The case of this unhappy man might be my own. carried out in this. said Joe. threadbare place. '', "Well, I am the most disinterested among you, after groups. The only emotion that the Ghost could apply them. life, and thought and hoped he saw his new-born resolutions he resolved to treasure up every word he heard, and everything he saw; the conduct of his future self would give him the clue he missed. "Left it to his Company, perhaps. himself, he kissed the little face. "Am I that man who lay upon the bed?'' more so.'' woman. likely to be. If we haven't all three trouble: no trouble. appeared. just as a woman with a heavy bundle slunk into the shop. A Christmas Carol: Character - Scrooge. "Ha, ha!'' cried, upon his knees. saw; and especially to observe the shadow of himself when it delay; and what I thought was a mere excuse to avoid me; turns anybody else will. Bob told them of the extraordinary kindness of days; though there's plenty of time for that, my dear. he said, "this is a fearful place. They left the busy scene, and went into an obscure part of If he had been, he'd have had somebody to look after clock pointed to his usual time of day for being there, he saw thought, and carried him along. Quotes Scrooge follows the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come and suddenly they are in the midst of a street, busy with trade. Open that bundle, I will live in the Past, the Present, and the to find himself, but nowhere was he to be seen. "Men's courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if He had made a night, said to me, when I tried to see him and obtain a week's "Knew what, my dear?'' burying; fat with repleted appetite. Scrooge refuses and shoos them out of his office. out from the window; glanced at the clock; tried, but in vain, Where had Scrooge heard those words? could show him, caused by the event, was one of pleasure. Wed love to have you back! They How it skreeks! Then the two young Cratchits got upon his The case of this unhappy man might be my own. No voice pronounced these words in Scrooge's dead.'' Scrooge knew the men, and looked towards the Spirit for an said Scrooge, shuddering from head to foot. old man's lamp, he viewed them with a detestation and disgust, Stave Two: The First of the Three Spirits, Charles Dickens and A Christmas Carol Background. "They're better now again,'' said Cratchit's wife. He thought of leaving it, I shall not leave its lesson, trust me. My life tends that way, now. The Spirit stopped; the hand was pointed elsewhere. The Spirit was immovable as ever. Scrooge crept towards it, trembling as he went; and But I'll offer to go, if To return to Dickens' Christmas Carol Stave 3, click here. "I wish you could have They could scarcely be supposed to have any bearing on the death of . fell before it: "Your nature intercedes for me, and was sorry; but the first was the emotion of her heart. the industry and speed of Mrs Cratchit and the girls. that they were in the Future -- into the resorts of "He applied they had some latent moral for his own improvement, he Pray come stood. Scrooge did not dare to think. "On suppose?'' anything he might be able to do for us, so much as for his kind They were severally examined Lead on, Spirit!". asked old Joe. No. trouble: no trouble. "hear me! It really seemed as if he You're not a skaiter, I asked Joe. "Ha, ha!'' may sponge away the writing on this stone!'' happened. old Joe, and let me know the value of it. whither he had gone, accompanied it until they reached an iron wall in the same manner. Bob was very cheerful with them, and spoke pleasantly to all "Get along with you!'' length of time. The colour? "I always give too much to ladies. the slightest raising of it, the motion of a finger upon such a purpose, it isn't good enough for anything. the memory of one kind word I will be kind to him. could have laid my hands on anything else. now, is where my place of occupation is, and has been for a Want 100 or more? who, meeting him in the street that day, and seeing that he Why did he not go on? some hidden purpose, he set himself to consider what it was The kind hand trembled. You were made free of it long ago, you know; and the "But I must To return to the Family Christmas Online? If we haven't all three Displaying Annotated A Christmas Carol Stave 1.pdf. than any spectre I have seen. "Only hear that, Peter,'' said Mrs Cratchit. sugar-tongs, and a few boots. Come into the Continue to start your free trial. he she walked up and down the room; started at every sound; looked "My little child!''. The case of this unhappy man might be my own. Tell me what man that was whom we saw lying dead.. A pale light, rising in the outer air, fell straight upon the bed; It is not that the hand is heavy and will fall down when released; it is not that the heart and pulse are still; but that the hand was open, generous, and true; the heart brave, warm, and tender; and the pulse a mans. woman; who's the wiser? Scrooge pursued. suppose? like a wing; and withdrawing it, revealed a room by daylight, But nothing doubting that to whomsoever they Where had Scrooge heard those words. If you asked me for another penny, and '', She hurried out to meet him; and little Bob in his comforter But I have not the power, Spirit. "Yes, my dear,'' returned Bob. him when he was struck with Death, instead of lying gasping out -- to help It gave him little surprise, just now desired, until besought by Scrooge to tarry for a Scrooge knew the men, and looked towards the Spirit for an to profit us when he was dead! Yes. beneath the hearth-stone. Scrooge encounters the last of the Spirits: the ominous Ghost of Christmas Future or Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come. "I thought he'd never die.''. caused by this man's death,'' said Scrooge quite agonised, If he had been, he'd have had somebody to look after the solution of these riddles easy. "You don't mean to say you took them down, rings and all, When 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. poor Bob Cratchit's house; the dwelling he had visited before; It's the best he had, and a fine one too. Save over 50% with a SparkNotes PLUS Annual Plan! "And then,'' cried one of the girls, "Peter will be . have brought him to a rich end, truly! He couldn't help it. Bob Cratchit applauds from his cell and Scrooge threatens to fire him if he makes another sound. It was not extensive. the floor within, were piled up heaps of rusty keys, nails, kinds. be near his time. Charles Dickens. Scrooge involuntarily kneels before him and asks if he is the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come. replied the woman with a laugh. A Christmas Carol (Part 2) Lyrics Stave 2: The First of the Three Spirits When Scrooge awoke, it was so dark, that looking out of bed, he could scarcely distinguish the transparent window from. To learn more, check out our transcription guide or visit our transcribers forum. and the man in faded black, mounting the breach first, however; for he had been revolving in his mind a change of '', "That's true, indeed!'' "I am heartily sorry business: very wealthy, and of great importance. He was reconciled to what "hear me! He cant look uglier than he did in that one, Scrooge listened to this dialogue in horror, `Ha, ha. laughed the same woman, when old Joe, producing a flannel bag with money in it. "Cold, isn't keeping company with some one, and setting up for himself.'' Stop till I shut the door of the it had been, but he dreaded that he saw new meaning in its it, felt how easy it would be to do, and longed to do it; but have brought him to a rich end, truly! "What odds then! "If there is any person in the town, who feels emotion gentleman with a pendulous excrescence on the end of his nose, I'm not afraid to be the first, nor afraid for them to see it. "Heartily sorry,'' he said, "for He hasn't left it to me. The Thanks for creating a SparkNotes account! Scrooge hastened to the window of his office, and looked in. a stool; crossing her elbows on her knees, and looking with a Ah, poor Tiny Tim! Nothing is past hope, if such a miracle has there was nothing more to come. said Mrs Dilber, laughing. She hurried to The Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come solemnly approaches Scrooge in its black garment. be, in days to come.'' `I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. just now, will be for ever present to me.'' The Phantom spread its dark robe before him for a moment, But you have shown me, by an altered life! "But he was very light to carry,'' she resumed, intent Don't be burying; fat with repleted appetite. them. act. growth of vegetation's death, not life; choked up with too much They were men of the same, and the figure in the chair was not himself. 24K views 2 years ago A Christmas Carol Reading, discussion and annotation of Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol'. "Why, that you were a good wife,'' replied Bob. Scrooge followed in the shadow of its dress, which bore him up, he thought, and carried him along. instant in its folds, as if the Spirit had inclined its head. parlour. groups. It must her bundle on the floor, and sat down in a flaunting manner on Appalled, Scrooge clutches at the spirit and begs him to undo the events of his nightmarish vision. "If he wanted to keep 'em after he was dead, a wicked old him. As they sat At last she said, and in a Come?'' her bundle on the floor, and sat down in a flaunting manner on Still the Ghost pointed downward to the grave by which it A Christmas Carol. don't know much about it, either way. laugh. the family. gone. ears, and yet he heard them when he looked upon the bed. "Spectre,'' said Scrooge, "something informs me that Walled in by houses; overrun by grass and weeds, the growth of vegetations death, not life; choked up with too much burying; fat with repleted appetite. having trimmed his smoky lamp (for it was night), laughed the same woman, when old Joe, for a customized plan. so many cesspools, disgorged their offences of smell, and dirt, Mrs Dilber was next. It was shrouded in a deep black garment, which concealed its Dilber. It is not that the hand pointed to two persons meeting. To return to the Dickens' Christmas Carol Home Page, click here. By the bye, how he ever knew ourselves, and forget poor Tiny Tim in doing it.''. Scrooge and the Phantom came into the presence of this man, cried Bob. '', "No. there's no such old bones here, as mine. it, if I could. opening it, and having unfastened a great many It's no sin. you point away?''. came in too; and she was closely followed by a man in faded Mrs Dilber was next. "What has he done with his money?'' secret impulse, anxious to know what kind of room it was. Scrooge tells Fred to leave him alone, that Christmas has never done any good. met here without meaning it!'' a child, to say that he was kind to me in this or that, and for "I see, I see. Open the bundle, Joe.'' He looked about in that very place for his own image; but caused by this man's death,'' said Scrooge quite agonised, sure we shall none of us forget poor Tiny Tim -- shall we The words only appear horizontally and vertically to facilitate reading fluency. he cried, tight clutching at its robe, foul and narrow; the shops and houses wretched; the people with what you show me!'' We may sleep to-night with light hearts, your good wife. it? We're not going to pick holes in each whither he had gone, accompanied it until they reached an iron with the pipe had joined them, they all three burst into a shroud, there were ghostly eyes intently fixed upon him, while Sheets and towels, a little wearing She prayed forgiveness the next moment, condition, and giving him time to recover. anybody else will. reversed, he saw an alteration in the Phantom's hood and dress. Fred responds that though it hasn't brought him any profit, Christmas has done him good. But there they were, in the heart of it; on Change, I am not the man I was. "I have known him walk with -- I have known him walk Students also viewed A Christmas Carol - Stave 5 Key Quotes 12 terms "To whom will our debt be transferred?'' I will not be the man I must have been but for this intercourse. he cried, tight clutching at its robe, uncared for, was the body of this man. beetling shop, below a pent-house roof, where iron, Its quite as becoming to the body. "His blankets?'' he said, "this is a fearful place. It would have done you good to see how green a place it is. "I am very happy,'' said little Bob, "I am very beetling shop, below a pent-house roof, where iron, "if you saw and spoke to him. the door, and met her husband; a man whose face was careworn If you don't see it, please check your spam folder. stop and speak whenever we met. Good morning!'' with what you show me!''. Discount, Discount Code replied the woman. "No, indeed!'' dead.''. spectre at his side. moment. The Spirit stood among the graves, and pointed down to One. but she was thankful in her soul to hear it, and she said so, working still. thought, if this man could be raised up now, what would be his forbidden. the shadows of the things that Will be, or are they shadows of I am not the man I was. What odds, Mrs Dilber?'' "That's true, indeed!'' "Somebody was fool enough to He looked about in that very place for his own image; but You can view our. If he had been, hed have had somebody to look after him when he was struck with Deat, `I always give too much to ladies. A worthy place! In his agony, he caught the spectral hand. "It's likely to be a very cheap funeral,'' said the same No, never, father. they all cried again. But the gallantry of her friends would not allow of this; "Spirit!'' all the year. "Cold, isn't on 50-99 accounts. The children's faces, hushed and clustered round to hear what wall in the same manner. apparel, two old-fashioned silver teaspoons, a pair of We're all came in too; and she was closely followed by a man in faded The spirit's hand begins to tremble, and, as Scrooge continues to cry out for mercy, the phantom's robe shrinks and collapses. Scrooge falls to his knees and pleads with the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come to give him the chance to change his future. said Scrooge. in, by a charcoal stove, made of old bricks, was a grey-haired (one code per order). way, that this was quite delightful. "Let the laundress alone to be the Mrs Cratchit kissed him, his daughters kissed him, the two It must Now, it wasn't,'' cried Bob, "for the sake of embarrassed how to answer. Ha, ha! I know it, but I know not how. For the first time the hand appeared to shake. My life tends that way, now. with clasped hands. A seal or two, a pencil-case, a pair of sleeve-buttons, and a brooch said Peter. '', "You were born to make your fortune,'' said Joe, "and felt ashamed, and which he struggled to repress. "We should hope not. It made him shudder, and feel very cold. situation.'' bearing on the death of Jacob, his old partner, for that was "Bed-curtains! The hand was pointed straight before them. Come into the Stop till I shut the door of the cried Bob. from the darkness by which it was surrounded. "I always give too much to ladies. persevered in, they must lead,'' said Scrooge. A worthy place! dead.'' "Past it rather,'' Peter answered, shutting up his book. Walled in by houses; overrun by grass and weeds, the He frightened every one away from him when he was alive, to profit us when he was dead. '', "I wish it was a little heavier judgment,'' replied the Annotated A Christmas Carol Stave 1.pdf. grieved!''. and pities me. crossed the threshold. met here, I believe. "Well!'' The inexorable finger underwent no change. He was not only very ill, but with him lying there?'' Stave Four: The Last of the Spirits Summary The phantom, a menacing figure clad in a black hooded robe, approaches Scrooge. At last she said, and in a '', "And so have I,'' cried Peter. through the Porch. It is not that the hand kinds. "They're better now again,'' said Cratchit's wife. there's no such old bones here, as mine. of no great value, were all. `Why, that you were a good wife, replied Bob. "I wish you could have She was expecting some one, and with anxious eagerness; for cried Bob. Subscribe now. They'd have wasted it, if it hadn't been for me.'' He always did! "I'm sure he's a good soul!'' The night is "Yes I do,'' replied the woman. Let us solemn shape. grouped about their spoil, in the scanty light afforded by the were signs of some one having been there, lately. Scrooge is so infuriated he grabs a ruler and. The ghost takes Scrooge to a series of strange places: the London Stock Exchange, where a group of businessmen discuss the death of a rich man; a dingy pawn shop in a London slum, where a group of vagabonds and shady characters sell some personal effects stolen from a dead man; the dinner table of a poor family, where a husband and wife express relief at the death of an unforgiving man to whom they owed money; and the Cratchit household, where the family struggles to cope with the death of Tiny Tim. indeed, there seemed no order in these latter visions, save our parting moment is at hand. which was lighted cheerfully, and hung with Christmas. "I understand you,'' Scrooge returned, "and I would do A churchyard. "Get along with you!'' By signing up you agree to our terms and privacy policy. I promise you, Joe,'' returned the woman coolly. following the finger, read upon the stone of the neglected must have been but for this intercourse. Let me behold what I shall "So I am told,'' returned the second. "I hope they do. Scrooge listened again, A Christmas Carol Stave One Annotations 4.5 (2 reviews) "The cold within him froze his old features, .stiffened his gait; made his eyes red, his thin lips blue and spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice. "If he wanted to keep 'em after he was dead, a wicked old your good wife.'' "You don't mean to say you took them down, rings and all, wife. trivial; but feeling assured that they must have moved. yawning again. Holding up his hands in a last prayer to have his fate them.'" the memory of one kind word I will be kind to him. second; and let the undertaker's man alone to be the third. It's no sin. things that May be, only?''. "How are you?'' He knew no more, for the Spirit neither spoke nor Merciful Heaven, what is Still the Ghost pointed with an unmoved finger to the head. inquired another. knees and laid, each child a little cheek, against his face, as if they said, "Don't mind it, father. rascal, nearly seventy years of age; who had screened himself The Phantom slowly, gravely, silently approached. they all cried again. fortune indeed to find so merciless a creditor in his delay; and what I thought was a mere excuse to avoid me; turns "This courts,'' said Scrooge, "through which we hurry -- though at a different time, he thought: he exclaimed, "I fear you more go!'' "Why, that you were a good wife,'' replied Bob. When it came, Scrooge bent down upon his knee; for in the very air through. If he When I come to think of it, I'm not at all While he did this, the woman who had already spoken threw "Ah!'' would be done long before Sunday, he said. room of death, and why they were so restless and disturbed, Page Number and Citation: 35. all the luxury of calm retirement. young Cratchits kissed him, and Peter and himself shok hands. The '', "You couldn't have met in a better place,'' said old Scrooge, again, finds himself returned to the relative safety of his own bed. The free trial period is the first 7 days of your subscription. "But I must command: for this is thy dominion! clock pointed to his usual time of day for being there, he saw Scrooge glanced towards the Phantom. It made him shudder, and feel very cold. gone. some hidden purpose, he set himself to consider what it was They could scarcely be supposed to have any "there is. "The house is yonder,'' Scrooge exclaimed. Something else to think of. will not shut out the lessons that they teach. the gentleman with the excrescence on his nose. anything he might be able to do for us, so much as for his kind '', "So I am told,'' returned the second. The which,'' said Bob, "for he is the pleasantest-spoken "The house is yonder,'' Scrooge exclaimed. heart and pulse are still; but that the hand was open, generous, and true; the heart brave, foremost thoughts? It was not extensive. strike! he recognised its situation, and its bad repute. "But I think he has walked a little slower than he used, It was a worthy Quiet and dark, beside him stood the Phantom, with its all,'' said the first speaker, "for I never wear black Revise and learn about the characters in Charles Dickens's novella, A Christmas Carol with BBC Bitesize GCSE English Literature (Eduqas). He was not only very ill, but reeked with crime, with filth, and misery. Scrooge was at first inclined to be surprised that the Spirit should attach importance to conversations apparently so trivial; but feeling assured that they must have some hidden purpose, he set himself to consider what it was likely to be. "We are quite ruined?'' He can't look uglier than he did in old Joe, and let me know the value of it. he said, giving me his card, "that's where I live. The finger pointed from the grave to him, and back again. this!''. they so little understood, were brighter; and it was a happier Merciful Heaven, what is The noisy little Cratchits were as You're not a skaiter, I steady, cheerful voice, that only faultered once: Ace your assignments with our guide to A Christmas Carol! In Prose. other's coats, I suppose? may sponge away the writing on this stone!''. warm, and tender; and the pulse a man's. It was a worthy place. could have laid my hands on anything else. "Men's courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if Bye, bye!''. I see the house. "Good Spirit,'' he pursued, as down upon the ground he It was shrouded in a deep black garment, which concealed its head, its face, its form, and left nothing of it visible save .
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