Identifier: christmascarol00dick2 (find matches)
Title: A Christmas carol
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 Coburn, Frederick Simpson
Subjects: Christmas stories Misers
Publisher: New York : Putnam
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ears. Scrooge was his sole ex-ecutor, his sole administrator, his sole as-sign, his sole residuary legatee, his solefriend, and sole mourner. And even Scroogewas not so dreadfully cut up by the sadevent, but that he was an excellent man ofbusiness on the very day of the funeral, andsolemnised it with an undoubted bargain. The mention of Marleys funeral brings meback to the point I started from. There is nodoubt that Marley was dead. This must bedistinctly understood, or nothing wonderfulcan come of the story I am going to relate.If we were not perfectly convinced that Ham-lets Father died before the play began, therewould be nothing more remarkable in histaking a stroll at night, in an easterly wind,upon his own rarnparts, than there would bein any other middle-aged gentleman rashlyturning out after dark in a breezy spot — saySaint Pauls Churchyard for instance — liter-ally to astonish his sons weak mind. Scrooge never painted out Old Marlevsname. There it stood, years afterwards,
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H Cbristmas Carol above the warehouse door: Scrooge andMarley. The firm was known as Scroogeand Marley. Sometimes people newto the business called Scrooge Scroogeand sometimes Marley, but he answeredto both names : it was all the same to him Oh ! But he was a tight-fisted hand at thegrindstone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrench-ing, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous,old sinner ! Hard and sharp as flint, fromwhich no steel had ever struck out generousfire ; secret, and self-contained, and solitary asan oyster. The cold within him froze his oldfeatures, nipped his pointed nose, shrivelled hischeek, stiffened his gait ; made his eyes red,his thin lips blue ; and spoke out shrewdly inhis grating voice. A frosty rime was on hishead, and on his eyebrows, and his wirychin. He carried his own low temperature al-ways about with him ; he iced his office in thedog-days ; and did nt thaw it one degree atChristmas. External heat and cold had little influenceon Scrooge. No warmth could warm, norwi

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