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- Scrooge and Marley
- Can I just get them all done at once?
- Scrooge and Marley
- Humbug!
- Scrooge and Marley
- I wish to be left alone!
- Good afternoon!
- The story begins with the line “ Marley was dead to begin with.” Scrooge and his clerk Bob Cratchit are at work in the counting house, with Cratchit sitting in the poorly heated "cell", because of Scrooge's tight fisted nature.
- Scrooge and Marley
- If you must...
- Scrooge's nephew, Fred, enters to wish his uncle a "Merry Christmas" and invite him to Christmas dinner the next day. Fred is excused by his relative with "Bah! Humbug!" among other words, declaring Christmas time to be a fraud. Scrooge also says What right have you to be merry? What reason have you to be merry? You're poor enough."
- Ahhhh!
- Two "portly gentlemen", collecting charity for the poor, come in afterwards, but they too are rejected by Scrooge, who points out that the poor laws and workhouses are enough to care for the poor. When Scrooge is told that many would rather die than go there, he responds with, "If they would rather die ... they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population."
- At the end of the workday, Scrooge reluctantly allows Cratchit to take Christmas Day off, but to arrive to work all the earlier on the day.
- When Scrooge arrives home, he is startled to see the ghostly face of his partner, Marley, appear on the knocker on the door. He disregards this and heads up his staircase to where he has another "hallucination" of a hearse chasing him up the stairs.Leading up to this event Marley's ghost finally phases through the cellar door.
- Marley has come to warn Scrooge that his avarice, miserly behaviour and contempt for others will subject him to the same fate Marley himself suffers in death: cursed to watch the poor suffer and not be able to do nothing about it. Marley says that he “wears the chain he forged in life”.
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