"Scrooge new he was dead? Of course he did...... Scrooge was his sole executor, his sole administrator, his sole assign, his sole residuary legatee, his sole friend and sole mourner. And even Scrooge was not so dreadfully cut up by the sad event."
"They were portly gentlemen, pleasant to behold, and now stood, with their hats off, in Scrooge's office"
"The firm was known as Scrooge and Marley. Sometimes people new to the business called Scrooge Scrooge, and sometimes Marley, but he answered to both names. It was all the same to him."
"Meanwhile the fog and darkness thickened so"
""I do," said Scrooge. "Merry Christmas! What right do you have to be merry? What reason have you to be merry? You're poor enough""
"not a knocker, but Marley's face"
""I wish to be left alone," said Scrooge "I don't make merry myself at Christmas, and I can't afford to make idle people merry. I help to support the establishments I have mentioned - they cost enough; and those who are off badly must go there.""
"The ancient tower of a church, whose gruff old bell was always peeping slily down at Scrooge out of a Gothic window in the wall, became invisible, and struck the hours and quarters in the clouds, with tremulous vibrations afterwards, as if it's teeth were chattering in its frozen head up there"
"It was not in impenetrable shadow, as the other objects in the yard were, but had a dismal light about it, like a bad lobster in a dark cellar.....That, and its"