1. Old Marley was as dead as a doornail.Copy !req
2. This must be distinctly understood
or nothing wonderful can come ofCopy !req
3. the story I'm going to relate.Copy !req
4. The registry of burial was
signed by ScroogeCopy !req
5. and Scrooge's name was good
on the London ExchangeCopy !req
6. for anything he chose
to put his hand to.Copy !req
7. Ah, Mr. Scrooge.Copy !req
8. Your servant, sir.Copy !req
9. Are you off home to keep Christmas?Copy !req
10. I am not in the habit of
keeping Christmas, Sir.Copy !req
11. Then why are you leaving so early?Copy !req
12. Because, Sir, Christmas is in habit of
keeping men from doing business.Copy !req
13. Come it's the nature of things
that ants toil and grasshoppersCopy !req
14. sing and play, Mr. Scrooge.Copy !req
15. An ant is what it is, and
a grasshopper is what it is,Copy !req
16. and Christmas, Sir,
is a humbug, good day.Copy !req
17. Ha ha ha ha ha.Copy !req
18. Mr. Scrooge, Sir.
- Who are you?Copy !req
19. Samuel Wilkins, Sir.Copy !req
20. Oh yes, You owe me a little matter of
twenty-odd pounds, I believe.Copy !req
21. Well if you want to pay it, come
to my place of business.Copy !req
22. I don't conduct my affairs in the
teeth of inclement weather.Copy !req
23. I - I can't pay you, Sir.Copy !req
24. I'm not surprised.Copy !req
25. Not unless you give me more time.Copy !req
26. Did I ask you for more time
to lend you the money?Copy !req
27. Oh, no, Sir!Copy !req
28. Then why should you ask me
for more time to pay it back?Copy !req
29. Can't take me wife to a debtors' prison.Copy !req
30. Then leave her behind.Copy !req
31. Why should she go to a
debtors' prison anyway?Copy !req
32. She didn't borrow the twenty pounds,
you did.Copy !req
33. Eh, …what does your wife
got to do with it?Copy !req
34. For that matter, what have I
got to do with it? Good afternoon.Copy !req
35. But, Mr. Scrooge, it's Christmas!Copy !req
36. Christmas has even less to do with it, my
dear sir, than your wife has or I have.Copy !req
37. You still owe me twenty pounds and
you are not in the position to repayCopy !req
38. if it was in the middle of a heat wave
on August bank holiday. Good afternoon.Copy !req
39. Be off with you!Copy !req
40. Well.Copy !req
41. Have I the pleasure of addressing
Mr. Scrooge or Mr. Marley?Copy !req
42. Mr. Marley has been dead these seven years.Copy !req
43. In fact, he died seven years ago
this very day.Copy !req
44. Well, we have no doubt that his
generosity is well representedCopy !req
45. by his… surviving partner.Copy !req
46. At this festive season of the year,
Mr. Scrooge,Copy !req
47. it is more than usually desirable that
we should make some slight provisionCopy !req
48. for the poor and destitute.Copy !req
49. Are there no prisons?Copy !req
50. Plenty of prisons.Copy !req
51. And the union work houses,
are they still in operation?Copy !req
52. They are.Copy !req
53. I wish I could say they were not.Copy !req
54. And the Treadmill and the Poor Law,
they're still in full vigor, I presume?Copy !req
55. Both very busy, Sir.Copy !req
56. Oh, from what you said at firstCopy !req
57. I was afraid that something had happened
to stop them in their useful course.Copy !req
58. I'm very glad to hear it.Copy !req
59. I don't think you quite
understand us, Sir.Copy !req
60. A few of us are endeavoring to raise a
fund to buy the poor some meat and drinkCopy !req
61. and means of warmth.Copy !req
62. Why?Copy !req
63. Because it is at Christmas time, that want
is most keenly felt.Copy !req
64. And abundance rejoices.Copy !req
65. Uh, what can I put you down for?Copy !req
66. Ha! nothing.Copy !req
67. You wish to be anonymous?Copy !req
68. I wish to be left alone.Copy !req
69. Since you ask me what I wish, Sir,
that is my answer.Copy !req
70. I helped to support the establishments
I have mentioned.Copy !req
71. Those who are badly off must go there.Copy !req
72. Many can't go there.Copy !req
73. And some would rather die.Copy !req
74. If they would rather die,
they'd better do itCopy !req
75. and decrease the surplus population.Copy !req
76. Besides, it's not my business.Copy !req
77. Isn't it, Sir?Copy !req
78. No.Copy !req
79. It is enough for a man to
understand his own businessCopy !req
80. without interfering with other peoples',Copy !req
81. mine occupies me constantly.
Good afternoon, gentlemen.Copy !req
82. Who's that?Copy !req
83. Your nephew, Uncle.Copy !req
84. It's you, is it?Copy !req
85. Well, what do you want?Copy !req
86. Neither to borrow money
or beg a mortgage, Uncle.Copy !req
87. Only to wish you a Merry Christmas!Copy !req
88. Keep Christmas in your own way
and leave me to keep it in mine.Copy !req
89. But you don't keep it!Copy !req
90. And let me leave it alone then.Copy !req
91. Much good may it do you to keep it.Copy !req
92. Much good it has ever done you.Copy !req
93. It's certainly done me no harm.Copy !req
94. No, your wayward nature has done that.Copy !req
95. And your marriage.Copy !req
96. My marriage was the making of me.Copy !req
97. The ruin of you, you mean.Copy !req
98. Why don't you come and see for yourself,
if you won't take my word for it.Copy !req
99. Come and dine with us tomorrow.Copy !req
100. No… thank you.Copy !req
101. But why? Why?Copy !req
102. Why do you marry against my wishes?Copy !req
103. Because I fell in love.Copy !req
104. You fell in love.Copy !req
105. With a woman as penniless as yourself.
Oh, good evening, Nick.Copy !req
106. We've never had any quarrel
that I've ever been party to.Copy !req
107. I ask nothing of you.Copy !req
108. I came here in the spirit of bright good
will and I won't let you dampen it.Copy !req
109. So a Merry Christmas to you
any way, Uncle.Copy !req
110. Good evening.Copy !req
111. And a Happy New Year.
- Good Evening!Copy !req
112. Humbug!Copy !req
113. How is Mrs. Cratchit and
all the small assorted Cratchits?Copy !req
114. Very well, Sir. Thank you.Copy !req
115. All chomping at the bit for
Christmas to begin, eh?Copy !req
116. Oh yes, Sir, all very eager.Copy !req
117. And the little lame boy.
Which one is he?Copy !req
118. Tim, Sir.Copy !req
119. That's right. How is he?Copy !req
120. We're in high hopes
he's getting better, Sir.Copy !req
121. Good.Copy !req
122. A Merry Christmas to you.Copy !req
123. Thank you, Sir, and a
Merry Christmas to you, Sir, I'm sure.Copy !req
124. Thank you.Copy !req
125. Come along Tim, my dear, I've got to go.Copy !req
126. Did you have a lovely time
looking at all the wonderful things?Copy !req
127. Yes, thank you, Ma-ma.
Did you get the big goose?Copy !req
128. It's the biggest goose you ever did see.Copy !req
129. As big as you and as fat as a beagle.Copy !req
130. Wait 'til your father sees it.Copy !req
131. His eyes will pop right out of his
head and he'll forget all aboutCopy !req
132. horrid old Mr. Scrooge.Copy !req
133. You're not feeling too tired are you, dear?Copy !req
134. Not a bit, Ma-ma!Copy !req
135. If your father was here, he'd
carry you home on his shoulder.Copy !req
136. Yes, I love having a ride on his shoulder!Copy !req
137. I suspect ol' Mr. Scrooge will keep him
working in that cold little roomCopy !req
138. just as late as he possibly can.Copy !req
139. Christmas Eve or no Christmas Eve,
the old Ogre.Copy !req
140. You want the whole day off
tomorrow, I suppose?Copy !req
141. If quite convenient, Sir?
- It's not convenient!Copy !req
142. And it's not fair.Copy !req
143. If I stopped you half-a-crown for it,
you'd think yourself ill-used,Copy !req
144. wouldn't you? Hmm!Copy !req
145. But you don't think me ill-used,
if I pay a day's wages for no work,Copy !req
146. do you? Hmph!Copy !req
147. 'Tis only once a year, Sir.Copy !req
148. That's a poor excuse for picking a
man's pocket every 25th of December.Copy !req
149. Yes, Sir. I'm sure. I'm very sorry, Sir, to
cause you such an inconvenience.Copy !req
150. It's the family more than me, Sir.Copy !req
151. They put their hearts into Christmas
as it were, Sir.Copy !req
152. Yes, and put their hands into my pockets
as it were, Sir.Copy !req
153. I suppose you better have the whole day.Copy !req
154. But be back all the earlier
the next morning.Copy !req
155. I will indeed, Sir! Thank you, Sir!
It's more than generous of you, Sir.Copy !req
156. Yes, I know it is. You don't have to tell me.Copy !req
157. Merry Christmas, Sir!Copy !req
158. A Merry Christmas, Sir?Copy !req
159. You, a clerk on fifteen shillings a week,
with a wife and a family,Copy !req
160. talking about a Merry Christmas. Ha ha.Copy !req
161. I'll retire to bedlam.Copy !req
162. Waiter.Copy !req
163. Yes.Copy !req
164. More bread.Copy !req
165. Take me extra, Sir.Copy !req
166. No more bread.
- No, Sir.Copy !req
167. Scrooge.Copy !req
168. Jacob Marley.Copy !req
169. Scrooge.Copy !req
170. Hu - hu-humbug!Copy !req
171. Oh…Copy !req
172. Hum…Copy !req
173. - bug.Copy !req
174. Scrooge.Copy !req
175. Aaaaaaaaah!Copy !req
176. Who are you?Copy !req
177. Ask me who I was.Copy !req
178. All right, all right!
Who were you then?Copy !req
179. In life, I was your partner,Copy !req
180. Jacob Marley.Copy !req
181. Oh!Copy !req
182. What do you want with me?Copy !req
183. Much.Copy !req
184. Huh, Huh!Copy !req
185. Huh, huh, huh!Copy !req
186. In that case…Copy !req
187. can you sit down?Copy !req
188. I can.Copy !req
189. Well do it then!Copy !req
190. You don't believe in me.Copy !req
191. I don't.Copy !req
192. Why do you doubt your senses?Copy !req
193. Because a little thing affects them.Copy !req
194. A slight disorder of the stomach
makes them cheat.Copy !req
195. You… you…
might be an undigested bit of beef.Copy !req
196. Huh! …a piece of cheese…Copy !req
197. a fragment of an underdone potato.Copy !req
198. There's more of gravy than a grave in you,Copy !req
199. whatever you are.Copy !req
200. Do you see that toothpick?Copy !req
201. I do.Copy !req
202. You're not looking at it!Copy !req
203. But I see it not withstanding.Copy !req
204. Oh.Copy !req
205. Well then, I've..
I've just got to swallow this and…Copy !req
206. and be tortured for the rest of my life
by a legion of hob goblins,Copy !req
207. all of my own creation.Copy !req
208. It's all humbug, I tell you!Copy !req
209. Wahahahahaohoh!Copy !req
210. Mercy! …mercy, mercy!Copy !req
211. Man of the worldly mind,
do you believe in me or not?Copy !req
212. Yes, I do, I do, I do… I must.Copy !req
213. But why do you walk the earth?Copy !req
214. And why do you come to me?Copy !req
215. It is required of every manCopy !req
216. that the spirit within him should
walk abroad with his fellow men.Copy !req
217. If it goes not forth in life it is
condemned to do so after death.Copy !req
218. It is doomed to wander
through the world! Aaaaaah! Woe is me!Copy !req
219. And witness what it cannot share,
but might have shared on earthCopy !req
220. and turned to happiness.Copy !req
221. Why are you fettered?Copy !req
222. I wear the chain I forged in life,
I made it link by linkCopy !req
223. and yard by yard. I girded it on of my own
free will and of my own free will…Copy !req
224. I wore it.Copy !req
225. You have my sympathy.
- Ahhhh…Copy !req
226. You do not know the weight and length
of strong chain you bear yourself.Copy !req
227. It was full, as heavy and as long as this,Copy !req
228. seven Christmas Eve's ago and
you have labored on it since.Copy !req
229. It is a ponderous chain.
Mark me!Copy !req
230. In life, my spirit never roved beyond
the limits of our money changing hole.Copy !req
231. Now I am doomed to wander
without rest or peace…Copy !req
232. incessant torture and remorse.Copy !req
233. But it was only that you were
a good man of business, Jacob.Copy !req
234. Business! Mankind was my business!
Their common welfare was my business.Copy !req
235. And it is at this time of the rolling
year that I suffer most.Copy !req
236. Hear me!
My time is nearly gone.Copy !req
237. I come tonight to warn you that you have
yet a chance and hope of escaping my fate.Copy !req
238. A chance and hope of my procuring,
Ebenezer.Copy !req
239. Thank you, Jacob.Copy !req
240. You were always a good friend of mine.Copy !req
241. You will be visited by three spirits.
- What?Copy !req
242. Was that the chance of hope
that you mentioned, Jacob?Copy !req
243. It was.
- Oh, well…Copy !req
244. In that case, never-mind.
I think I'd rather not.Copy !req
245. Without their visits you can not hope
to shun the path I tread.Copy !req
246. Expect the first when the bell tolls One.Copy !req
247. Look to see me… no more.Copy !req
248. But look here…Copy !req
249. that you may remember for your own sake,
What has passed between us.Copy !req
250. Why do they lament?Copy !req
251. They seek to interfere for good
in human measures.Copy !req
252. And have lost their powers… forever.Copy !req
253. Are you the spirit who's coming
was foretold to me?Copy !req
254. I am.Copy !req
255. Who and what are you?Copy !req
256. I am the Ghost of Christmas Past.Copy !req
257. Long past?
- No, your past.Copy !req
258. And what is your business here with me?Copy !req
259. Your welfare.Copy !req
260. My welfare?
- Your reclamation then.Copy !req
261. Take heed, rise, and walk with me.Copy !req
262. Through the window.
- Are you afraid?Copy !req
263. L-but I-I am a mortal and…
I'm liable to fall.Copy !req
264. There but a touch of my hand and
you shall be upheld in more than this.Copy !req
265. Good heavens!Copy !req
266. You know this place?
- Know it?Copy !req
267. I was a boy here.Copy !req
268. They are but shades of the things
that have been.Copy !req
269. They do not know we are here.Copy !req
270. Look!
There's my old school.Copy !req
271. How lonely and deserted it looks.Copy !req
272. Not quite deserted.Copy !req
273. A solitary boy, yourself Ebenezer,
forgotten by his friendsCopy !req
274. is left there still.Copy !req
275. I know.Copy !req
276. Ebenezer!
- Fan!Copy !req
277. It's Fan!Copy !req
278. Oh, dear brother, I have come
to bring you home.Copy !req
279. Home, home, home!Copy !req
280. Home?
- Yes!Copy !req
281. Home for good and all!
Home forever and ever.Copy !req
282. Father is so much kinder than he used
to be that home is like heaven.Copy !req
283. For you, perhaps,
but not for me.Copy !req
284. He doesn't know me,
nor even what I look like.Copy !req
285. Same as I hardly know you
now that you're quite a woman.Copy !req
286. Ma-ma must have looked just
as you look now, just before she died.Copy !req
287. Perhaps that is what has changed
his mind towards you.Copy !req
288. He spoke to me so gently one night
when I was going to bed,Copy !req
289. that I wasn't afraid to ask him, just once
more, that you might come home.Copy !req
290. And he said, "Yes, you should," and sent
me in the carriage to bring you,Copy !req
291. and you're never to come back here
anymore,Copy !req
292. and you're never to be lonely again.
- Never to be lonely again.Copy !req
293. Never, as long as I live!Copy !req
294. Then, you must live forever, Fan.Copy !req
295. Nobody else ever cared for me.
Nobody else ever will.Copy !req
296. You must live forever, Fan!Copy !req
297. Oh, dear brother, what nonsense!
Everyone loves you very much.Copy !req
298. You must forgive Pa-pa
and forget the past.Copy !req
299. For our dearest mother's sake.Copy !req
300. Oh, Fan…
- There, there.Copy !req
301. Bring down, Master Scrooge's box.Copy !req
302. Your sister was always a delicate creature
whom a breath might have withered.Copy !req
303. But she had a large heart.
- She had.Copy !req
304. She died a married woman and had,
I think, children.Copy !req
305. One child.
- True, your nephew.Copy !req
306. She died… giving him life.Copy !req
307. As your mother died, giving you life.Copy !req
308. For which your father never forgave you,
as if you were to blame.Copy !req
309. You recall this, no doubt.Copy !req
310. Recall it!
Why bless my soul!Copy !req
311. It's Old Fezziwig's!Copy !req
312. I was apprenticed here.Copy !req
313. Look there's Old Fezziwig and
Mrs. Fezziwig, top couple!Copy !req
314. Oh, was there ever a kinder man?Copy !req
315. And yet, what does this party cost him
in your mortal money?Copy !req
316. Three or four pounds, at most.Copy !req
317. Is that so much that he
deserves your praise?Copy !req
318. Oh, but it's not that!Copy !req
319. The happiness he gave us, his clerks and
apprentices, and everybody who knew him.Copy !req
320. It was as great as if it had…
as if it had cost a fortune.Copy !req
321. What's the matter?
- Nothing.Copy !req
322. Something, I think.
- No, no, no, no…Copy !req
323. Just that I'd like to have a word with my
own clerk, Bob Cratchit, just now.Copy !req
324. That's all.Copy !req
325. Turn and see yourself in love,
Ebenezer Scrooge.Copy !req
326. It's only a shilling ring, Alice,
but one day, it'll be a gold one.Copy !req
327. …when I'm rich enough.
- Oh, it's a beautiful ring!Copy !req
328. But I mustn't accept it.Copy !req
329. Why not?
Because it's not good enough for you?Copy !req
330. Oh, no, no.Copy !req
331. Oh, because I'm not rich enough
for you?Copy !req
332. How foolish of you,
of course not!Copy !req
333. But you're still so young, you may
have a change of heart one day.Copy !req
334. Oh, dearest Alice,Copy !req
335. if ever I have a change of heart
towards you,Copy !req
336. it'll be because my heart has ceased
to beat.Copy !req
337. And it makes no difference that I'm poor?Copy !req
338. I love you because you're poor,
not proud and foolish.Copy !req
339. Will you…
always feel like that?Copy !req
340. As long as I live,
…longer… forever and ever.Copy !req
341. Then…Copy !req
342. I accept your ring.Copy !req
343. AliceCopy !req
344. EbenezerCopy !req
345. God Bless you, Alice,Copy !req
346. From now to eternity,
we, two, are as one.Copy !req
347. I've seen enough!
- Yet more awaits you.Copy !req
348. I won't look!
- You shall.Copy !req
349. Now see yourself in business, Ebenezer.Copy !req
350. Come, come Mr. Fezziwig,Copy !req
351. We are good friends, I think,
besides good men of business.Copy !req
352. We're men of vision and progress.Copy !req
353. Why don't you sell out while
the going's good?Copy !req
354. You'll never get a better offer.Copy !req
355. This is the age of the machine
and the factory and the vested interest.Copy !req
356. We small traders are all history,
Mr. FezziwigCopy !req
357. Huh, Doh-Doh's.
- Yes, I dare say we are.Copy !req
358. And the offer is a very large one,
I have to admit,Copy !req
359. but it's not just for money alone
that one spends a lifetimeCopy !req
360. building up a business, Mr. Jorkin.Copy !req
361. Well, if it isn't, I'd like you to tell me
what you do spend a lifetimeCopy !req
362. building up a business for?Copy !req
363. It's to preserve a way of life that
one knew and loved.Copy !req
364. No, I can't see my way to selling out
to the new vested interest, Mr. Jorkin.Copy !req
365. I have to be loyal to the old ways
and die out with them, if needs must.Copy !req
366. Well, ha ha ha. You know what they say
about time and tide, Mr. Fezziwig.Copy !req
367. They wait for no one.Copy !req
368. There's more in life than money, Sir.Copy !req
369. Oh, excuse me, Mr. Fezziwig, Sir?Copy !req
370. Uh yes, yes, my boy?Copy !req
371. The foreman would appreciate a word with
you, if you could spare the time, Sir.Copy !req
372. Uh, yes, yes, of course.
Excuse me a moment.Copy !req
373. Ha ha ha, you can't teach an old dog
new tricks. Can you, Mr. Scrooge?Copy !req
374. Nor teach the leopard to change its spots.Copy !req
375. Well I - I think I know what Mr. Fezziwig
means though, Sir.Copy !req
376. Oh, so you hate progress
and money too, do you?Copy !req
377. Well no, I don't hate them, Sir, but…Copy !req
378. well, perhaps the machines aren't such
a good thing for mankind, after all.Copy !req
379. Sage and onions, my dear fellow!
Ha! Gammon and spinach.Copy !req
380. Why, suppose I told you,
you could get twice the salaryCopy !req
381. Old Fezziwig can afford to pay you?Copy !req
382. And advancement he can't
afford to offer you…Copy !req
383. as a clerk in a new company?Copy !req
384. What would you say to that, eh?Copy !req
385. Well I - I'd still say money wasn't
everything, Sir.Copy !req
386. Ha, well if it ain't,
I don't know what is.Copy !req
387. Come and see me one day
anyway, young fellow.Copy !req
388. You're smart and you're no fool.Copy !req
389. That's the kind of buck they're
looking for these days.Copy !req
390. No, Spirit, not here.
- Yes, …here.Copy !req
391. Fan, it's Ebenezer, your brother.
Do you know me?Copy !req
392. Ebenezer.Copy !req
393. I sent for you.Copy !req
394. Promise me…Copy !req
395. Promise you what, Fan?
I'll promise you anything, dearest.Copy !req
396. Only there, there isn't going
to be any need.Copy !req
397. You're going to get well again, Fan.Copy !req
398. You are! you are.
Dear God, you must!Copy !req
399. Fan you-you-you can't die.
Fan, you mustn't die!Copy !req
400. You're going to get well again, Fan.
Fan, you're going to get well again!Copy !req
401. Fan…Copy !req
402. How could you have brought me here?
Have you no mercy, no pity?Copy !req
403. Ebenezer.
Brother?Copy !req
404. Ebenezer?Copy !req
405. Promise me…
you'll take care of my boy.Copy !req
406. Promise me
you'll take care my…Copy !req
407. You heard her.Copy !req
408. Forgive me, Fan.
Forgive me.Copy !req
409. Forgive me, Fan!
Forgive me, Fan.Copy !req
410. Well, there you are, me buck.
That's where you'll start.Copy !req
411. And you can work your way up as high as
the dome in St. Paul's Cathedral,Copy !req
412. if you have a mind to do so.Copy !req
413. Control the cash box and
you control the world.Copy !req
414. By the way, how did Old Fezziwig take it
when you said you were leaving him?Copy !req
415. He wished me luck, Sir.Copy !req
416. No hard feelings, eh?
Starting with a clean slate?Copy !req
417. Good.Copy !req
418. And now let me introduce you to your
fellow clerk. Mr. Marley!Copy !req
419. Just a moment please.Copy !req
420. Mr. Ebenezer Scrooge, the new clerk.Copy !req
421. Mr. Jacob Marley,
our wizard of the accounts.Copy !req
422. Your servant, Mr. Marley.
- Your servant, Mr. Scrooge.Copy !req
423. I'm sure you two gentlemen
will get along famously.Copy !req
424. I'm sure we shall Mr. Jorkin, Sir.Copy !req
425. Yes, heh heh, well I'll leave you to it.Copy !req
426. Thank you.Copy !req
427. The place, no doubt, seems new
and strange to you.Copy !req
428. Somewhat.Copy !req
429. The world is on the verge of new
and great changes, Mr. Scrooge.Copy !req
430. Some of them, of necessity,
will be violent. Do you agree?Copy !req
431. No, I think the world is becoming
a very hard and cruel place, Mr. Marley.Copy !req
432. One must steel oneself to survive it.Copy !req
433. Not be crushed under with
the weak and the infirm.Copy !req
434. I think we have many things
in common, Mr. Scrooge.Copy !req
435. I hope so, Mr. Marley.Copy !req
436. Oh, excuse me, Mr. Scrooge, Sir.
- Yes?Copy !req
437. Pardon the liberty, but do you know if
I'm to be kept on here, Sir?Copy !req
438. What's your present salary?
- Five shillings a week, Sir.Copy !req
439. You can stay for four shillings a week.
- Well yes, Sir. Thank you, Sir.Copy !req
440. Isn't that Old Fezziwig?Copy !req
441. Alice.Copy !req
442. The same Alice you swore to love
for all eternity, Ebenezer.Copy !req
443. She is not changed by the
harshness of the world.Copy !req
444. But you are.Copy !req
445. Then you no longer love me?Copy !req
446. You no longer love me.
- When have I ever said that.Copy !req
447. In words? Never.
- Well, in what then?Copy !req
448. In the way you have changed.
- But how have I changed towards you?Copy !req
449. By changing toward the world.Copy !req
450. Is it such a terrible thing for a man to
struggle for something better than he is?Copy !req
451. Another idol has replaced me in your
heart… A golden idol.Copy !req
452. It's singular.Copy !req
453. The world, that can be so brutally
cruel to the poor,Copy !req
454. professes to condemn the pursuit of
wealth in the same breath.Copy !req
455. You fear the world too much.
- Ha! with reason!Copy !req
456. But, I am not changed toward you!Copy !req
457. Aren't you?Copy !req
458. Our promise is an old one.Copy !req
459. It was made when we were both poor
and content to be so.Copy !req
460. If you had never made that promise,
tell me…Copy !req
461. would you seek me out and
try to win me now.Copy !req
462. Of course, I would.Copy !req
463. No.Copy !req
464. If you were free today, would you choose
a direless girl with -Copy !req
465. with neither wealth nor social standing?
You, who now weigh everything by gain!Copy !req
466. I bring you nothing but
repentance and regret.Copy !req
467. That is why…
I released you.Copy !req
468. You know I'm right then?Copy !req
469. I must bow to your conviction
that you are.Copy !req
470. May you be happy in the life
you have chosen.Copy !req
471. Thank you.
I shall be.Copy !req
472. Goodbye.Copy !req
473. Show me no more.
- But I told you.Copy !req
474. These are but shadows of the
things that have been.Copy !req
475. That they are what they are.Copy !req
476. Do not blame me.
- Take me away!Copy !req
477. Very well.
But we have not done yet, Ebenezer Scrooge.Copy !req
478. We do, but turn, another page.Copy !req
479. And as your business prospered,
Ebenezer Scrooge,Copy !req
480. a golden idol took possession
of your heart…Copy !req
481. as Alice said it would.Copy !req
482. May we hear those figures, Mr. Snedrig?
At your pleasure.Copy !req
483. Certainly, Mr. Groper.Copy !req
484. Well, gentlemen,
after seventeen years of existence,Copy !req
485. the Amalgamated Mercantile Society's
books show the startling figuresCopy !req
486. of a liability of three thousand-
two hundred pounds,Copy !req
487. eight shillings and 10 pence.Copy !req
488. And a total asset of eleven pounds,
eight shillings, and 10 pence.Copy !req
489. Well at least the 10 pences
cancel each other out.Copy !req
490. How much of this is the
company's capital?Copy !req
491. All of it, Mr. Rosebed.Copy !req
492. In short, Sir, you're not only a bankrupt,Copy !req
493. you're an embezzler of
the company's funds.Copy !req
494. I also beat my wife and skewer innocent
babies when in my cups.Copy !req
495. Take a very cool attitude,
if I may say so, Sir.Copy !req
496. So do Mr. Scrooge and Mr. Marley.Copy !req
497. They're not facing prosecution
for the capital offense.Copy !req
498. Oh, but gentlemen it could
have been any one of you.Copy !req
499. We're all cut-throats under
this fancy linen, Mr. Snedrig.Copy !req
500. I must ask you to speak
for yourself, Mr. Jorkin!Copy !req
501. And what would you gain
to prosecute me?Copy !req
502. All you would get out of it is
about eleven pounds odd.Copy !req
503. And to pack me off to Botany Bay,Copy !req
504. would be poor compensation for the panic
that would arise among the share holders.Copy !req
505. Panic, Sir?
- Yes, panic.Copy !req
506. Would any of you gentlemen care to denyCopy !req
507. that if this juicy little scandal
leaked out nowCopy !req
508. the annual shareholders meetingCopy !req
509. would resemble an orchestra
of scorched cats.Copy !req
510. Result…
bankruptcy all around.Copy !req
511. Strike that speech out of the minutes!
- Yes, Sir.Copy !req
512. Mr. Jorkin doesn't exaggerate the
imprudence of allowing his…Copy !req
513. misdemeanors to be made public.Copy !req
514. Are you in sympathy with Mr. Jorkin
by any chance, Mr. Scrooge?Copy !req
515. Not, I confess, with his methods.Copy !req
516. Mr. Marley and I have a proposition
to make to the representativesCopy !req
517. of the company which might solve
some of the difficultiesCopy !req
518. to our general advantage.
- The devil you have!Copy !req
519. You want to watch these two fellows,
you know.Copy !req
520. They'd skin Jack Ketch alive and
he'd never know they'd done it.Copy !req
521. Can we hear the proposition?Copy !req
522. Shall I be Spokesman?Copy !req
523. Mr. Marley and myselfCopy !req
524. are prepared to make good
out of our own private resources,Copy !req
525. the sum of money appropriated
by Mr. Jorkin.Copy !req
526. Reprieved, reprieved!Copy !req
527. Curfew shall not ring tonight,
Mr. Snedrig.Copy !req
528. Order, order!Copy !req
529. In return,Copy !req
530. we wish to be allowed the option of buying
up further shares in the company.Copy !req
531. To a maximum of fifty-one percent
of the total.Copy !req
532. In short gentleman,Copy !req
533. if you wish to save the fair name of the
company by accepting their generous offer,Copy !req
534. They become the company.Copy !req
535. Fifty-one percent! Never, never!
Out of question!Copy !req
536. And also out of order, Mr. Scrooge!Copy !req
537. Pardon me…Copy !req
538. if you can find the grace to,Copy !req
539. I've just come from Mr. Marley's
with a message for Mr. Scrooge.Copy !req
540. Well, can I give it to him?Copy !req
541. Well please your great kind self, dear.Copy !req
542. I'm to say…Copy !req
543. that Mr. Marley ain't expected to live
through the night,Copy !req
544. and that if Mr. Scrooge wants
to take his leave of him,Copy !req
545. he should nip along smartly or there won't
be no Mr. Marley to take leave ofCopy !req
546. as we know the use of the word.Copy !req
547. He's breathing very queerCopy !req
548. when he does breathe at all.Copy !req
549. Excuse me, Mr. Scrooge.
- I'm busy!Copy !req
550. It's about Mr. Marley,
he's dying, Sir.Copy !req
551. Well what can I do about it?
If he's dying, he's dying.Copy !req
552. Well, the message was for you
to go at once, Sir.Copy !req
553. It is now a quarter to five.Copy !req
554. The business of the office
is not yet finished,Copy !req
555. I shall go when the office is closed.
At seven o'clock.Copy !req
556. Yes, Sir.Copy !req
557. He'll come at Seven.Copy !req
558. I'll try and get Mr. Marley to hold out
'til then, I'm sure.Copy !req
559. Much obliged.
Good night to ya.Copy !req
560. And a Merry ChristmasCopy !req
561. if it ain't out of keepin'
with the situation.Copy !req
562. Thank you, the same to you.Copy !req
563. I hope you'll find Mr. Marley well, Sir.
- I should think that's highly unlikely.Copy !req
564. Yes, I suppose so, Sir, but ..Copy !req
565. Seems odd to think of the place
without him, Sir.Copy !req
566. Why should it be anymore odd
than it was with him, hmm?Copy !req
567. We've all got to die, Cratchit.Copy !req
568. I suppose you will want the whole day
off tomorrow, as usual.Copy !req
569. If quite convenient, Sir?Copy !req
570. Every Christmas you say the same thing.Copy !req
571. And every Christmas, it'sCopy !req
572. just as inconvenient as it was
the Christmas before. Goodnight.Copy !req
573. Ours is a highly competitive
profession, Sir.Copy !req
574. Is he dead yet?Copy !req
575. I'll have another look, if you'd like?
- No, don't bother.Copy !req
576. I'll see for myself.Copy !req
577. Goodnight, Sir.Copy !req
578. Oh, oh Jacob.Copy !req
579. Well have they… have they
seen to you properly?Copy !req
580. Last rights and all that, hmm?Copy !req
581. There's uh… there's nothing
I can do, hmm?Copy !req
582. Oh?Copy !req
583. What… particularly?Copy !req
584. While…
- Huh?Copy !req
585. …there's still time…Copy !req
586. Time?
Time for what?Copy !req
587. We…Copy !req
588. We were wrong.
- Huh?Copy !req
589. Wrong.
- Wrong?Copy !req
590. Oh…Copy !req
591. Well we - we can't be right
all the time.Copy !req
592. Nobody's perfect.Copy !req
593. We've been no worse
than the next man.Copy !req
594. Or better, if it comes to that.Copy !req
595. You mustn't reproach yourself, Jacob.Copy !req
596. We are wrong.
- What?Copy !req
597. Save… yourself.Copy !req
598. What? Save myself?Copy !req
599. Save myself from what?
Hmm?Copy !req
600. Speak up…Copy !req
601. Is he dead?Copy !req
602. Yes.Copy !req
603. Just like you said.Copy !req
604. I always know.Copy !req
605. One shadow more.
- No!Copy !req
606. No more.
I cannot bear it.Copy !req
607. Jacob Marley worked at your side
for eighteen years.Copy !req
608. He was the only friend you ever had.Copy !req
609. But what did you feel when
you signed the registrar at his burialCopy !req
610. and took his money, his house,
and his few lean sticks of furniture?Copy !req
611. Did you feel a little pity for him?Copy !req
612. Look at your face, Ebenezer.Copy !req
613. A face of a wrenching, grasping,
scraping, covetous old sinner.Copy !req
614. No… no… no, no, no… no.Copy !req
615. Come in, come in, Ebenezer Scrooge.Copy !req
616. I await you.Copy !req
617. Yes, I'm - I'm coming.Copy !req
618. Come in! Come in!Copy !req
619. I'm coming.Copy !req
620. Ebenezer, come in!Copy !req
621. Come in, come in!
And know me better, man.Copy !req
622. I am the Spirit of Christmas Present.
Look upon me.Copy !req
623. You've never seen the like of
me before… Have you?Copy !req
624. Never.Copy !req
625. And I wish the pleasure had been
indefinitely postponed.Copy !req
626. So…Copy !req
627. is your heart still unmoved
towards us, then?Copy !req
628. I'm too old! I'm beyond hope!Copy !req
629. Go and redeem some younger,
more promising creature, andCopy !req
630. leave me to keep Christmas
in my own way.Copy !req
631. Mortal!Copy !req
632. We spirits of Christmas do not live
only one day of our year.Copy !req
633. We live the whole 365.Copy !req
634. So is it true of the child
born in Bethlehem.Copy !req
635. He does not live in men's hearts only
one day of the year,Copy !req
636. but in all the days of the year.Copy !req
637. You have chosen not to seek him
in your heart.Copy !req
638. Therefore, you shall come with meCopy !req
639. and seek him in the hearts
of men of good will.Copy !req
640. Come.
Touch my robe.Copy !req
641. A place where miners live, who
labor in the bowels of the earth.Copy !req
642. But they know me.
Come.Copy !req
643. Why, it's Cratchit!
It's Bob Cratchit!Copy !req
644. He's coming mother!
Father's here with tiny Tim!Copy !req
645. Here, Martha.
You hide,Copy !req
646. and we'll tell him you've been held up
and who knows when you'll be here.Copy !req
647. Yes! Go hide!
- Oh, goodness! Where?Copy !req
648. Behind the scullery door, quickly, Martha!Copy !req
649. Hi.Copy !req
650. A Merry Christmas.Copy !req
651. Why…
Where's our Martha?Copy !req
652. Oh, she's not coming.Copy !req
653. Not coming?
Not coming on Christmas day?Copy !req
654. Yes I am, Father!Copy !req
655. I can't bear to let them tease you.Copy !req
656. Why, bless your heart.Copy !req
657. It never would have been Christmas,
if they'd kept you late.Copy !req
658. Is the pudding still singing
in the copper, Peter?Copy !req
659. Yes, come and hear it.
You come, too, Mary and Belinda!Copy !req
660. You come along as well, Martha.Copy !req
661. Come and hear the pudding
singing in the copper.Copy !req
662. I'll come in a minute.
- All right.Copy !req
663. Sit you down before the fire,Copy !req
664. We had such a deal of work
to finish up last night,Copy !req
665. that I never did think I'd get away.Copy !req
666. We had to clear away this morning,Copy !req
667. and then I ran all the way so's
to be here in time.Copy !req
668. How did little Tim behave in church?Copy !req
669. As good as gold and better.Copy !req
670. Sometimes he gets thoughtful sitting
by himself so muchCopy !req
671. and thinks the strangest things
you ever heard.Copy !req
672. He told me,Copy !req
673. he wasn't going to feel shy if people
looked at him because he was a cripple,Copy !req
674. as it might be pleasant to them,
being in church,Copy !req
675. to remember upon Christmas day,Copy !req
676. who made lame beggars walk
and blind men see.Copy !req
677. He's growing strong and hearty though,
Martha, my dear.Copy !req
678. Isn't he, my love?Copy !req
679. Spirit… tell me…
will tiny Tim live?Copy !req
680. I see a vacant seat in the
poor chimney corner,Copy !req
681. and a crutch without an owner,
carefully preserved.Copy !req
682. If these shadows remain unaltered
by the Future,Copy !req
683. none other of my way
shall find him there.Copy !req
684. Oh, no!…No!Copy !req
685. Kind Spirit…Copy !req
686. say that he will be spared.
Why?Copy !req
687. If he be like to die, he better do it
and decrease the surplus population.Copy !req
688. Well, my little cock sparrow,Copy !req
689. here's your own stool by the fire
all ready for you.Copy !req
690. There's such a goose, Martha!Copy !req
691. I'm sure of it.
- And the pudding! Oh, the pudding!Copy !req
692. It shan't be easy 'til it's eaten.Copy !req
693. I confess, I've had my doubts about
the quantity of flour.Copy !req
694. It'll be a perfect pudding my love.
A perfect pudding.Copy !req
695. Won't it, Martha, my dear?
Eh, Tim?Copy !req
696. It'll be the finest pudding in the
whole of London this Christmas,Copy !req
697. and the goose'll be the finest goose.
- And ours'll be the finest Christmas.Copy !req
698. Here's the punch, all steaming hot.
Oh, good!Copy !req
699. No, no, no, take your turn,
one and all, if you please.Copy !req
700. There's enough for one toast now
and another after that.Copy !req
701. Thank you!
There! Bravo! There's bounty for you!Copy !req
702. I declare I'd like to know how many
families of our acquaintanceCopy !req
703. could boast two rounds
of the best gin punch!Copy !req
704. None! No one!Copy !req
705. Now, has everybody got his drink?
- Yes! Yes!Copy !req
706. Good. But before I give the toast,Copy !req
707. I have a piece of momentous
information for all,Copy !req
708. and Master Peter, in particular.Copy !req
709. Master Peter?Copy !req
710. Why, that's you, Peter!
What is it, Father? Yeah, what is it?Copy !req
711. Master Peter, now grown to full estate
and dignity as son of the house,Copy !req
712. and looking every inch the grand fellow
he is, in one of my own collars,Copy !req
713. I have waited for this great moment,Copy !req
714. to advise him that I have my eye
on a situation for himCopy !req
715. which will bring him, if obtained,
full 5 and 6 pence weekly!Copy !req
716. YA! You'll be quite the independent
gentleman now, Peter!Copy !req
717. What next? I wonder.Copy !req
718. Then a toast my love, my dearies.Copy !req
719. To a Merry Christmas!Copy !req
720. God bless us.
- God bless us!Copy !req
721. God bless us…
every one.Copy !req
722. I give you Mr. Scrooge,Copy !req
723. the founder of the feast.Copy !req
724. Oh no, Father!
He doesn't deserve it!Copy !req
725. I wish I had him here now, I'd give him
a piece of my mind to feast himself upon.Copy !req
726. My dear, the children… Christmas Day!Copy !req
727. Could only be on Christmas day
that I would drink the healthCopy !req
728. of such a hard, stingy,
unfeeling man as Mr. Scrooge.Copy !req
729. You know he is, Robert, nobody knows it
better than you do, poor fellow.Copy !req
730. My dear, Christmas day.Copy !req
731. I'll drink his health for your sake
and the day's… not for his.Copy !req
732. Long life to him. A Merry Christmas and
a Happy New Year.Copy !req
733. He'll be very happy
and very merry, no doubt.Copy !req
734. He said that Christmas was
"humbug", and he believed it, too.Copy !req
735. I told you so.Copy !req
736. Well, a Merry Christmas and a Happy
New Year to the poor old man.Copy !req
737. He wouldn't let me wish it
to him personally,Copy !req
738. but here it is, never the less,
Uncle Scrooge!Copy !req
739. Yes, to Scrooge!
Uncle Scrooge!Copy !req
740. Well, I don't know that our drinking
to him will do him much good.Copy !req
741. Or do l. I hate him!
- Oh, I forbid it! I'm sorry for him.Copy !req
742. I couldn't feel angry with him,
if I tried.Copy !req
743. Who suffers worse from his humors?
Himself always.Copy !req
744. Look at the way he's taken it in his head
to disown us without a shilling,Copy !req
745. and won't even come to dinner with us.
And what's the consequence?Copy !req
746. He's only cheated himself out of
a highly indigestible dinner.Copy !req
747. It was a wonderful dinner!
- Yes, it was a wonderful dinner.Copy !req
748. Well I'm really glad you think so, Miss,Copy !req
749. because I personally haven't very much
faith in these newly-wed housekeepers.Copy !req
750. Have you, Tupper?Copy !req
751. Alas, as a bachelor,
I'm a wretched outcast,Copy !req
752. with no right to express an opinion on
such a tender and delicate subject.Copy !req
753. Have I… dear,
distant, unmovable, Miss Flora?Copy !req
754. Now, you really are quite incorrigible,
Mr. Tupper.Copy !req
755. Quite beyond hope.Copy !req
756. …and have not charity, I am become
as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.Copy !req
757. And though I have the gift of prophecy
and understand all mysteriesCopy !req
758. and all knowledge,Copy !req
759. and though I have all faith so
that I can remove mountains,Copy !req
760. and have not charity,
I am nothing.Copy !req
761. Do you feel more rested now,
my dear?Copy !req
762. I do, bless your dear gentle heart.Copy !req
763. Alice…Copy !req
764. Do you know, me darlin',Copy !req
765. I never thought there was
anyone like youCopy !req
766. left in the whole wide world.Copy !req
767. Cut me throat, rip me liver,
if I'm tellin' a lie.Copy !req
768. This is the happiest Christmas
I ever had!Copy !req
769. Alice?Copy !req
770. Alice!Copy !req
771. Spirit, are these people real
or are they shadows?Copy !req
772. They're real, we are the shadows.Copy !req
773. Both of us?Copy !req
774. Did you not cut yourself off
from your fellow beings,Copy !req
775. when you lost the love of
that gentle creature?Copy !req
776. Where are you taking me now.Copy !req
777. My time with you, Ebenezer,
is almost done.Copy !req
778. Will you profit by what I have shown
you of the good in most men's hearts?Copy !req
779. I don't know.
How can I promise?Copy !req
780. If it's too hard a lesson
for you to learn,Copy !req
781. then learn this lesson.Copy !req
782. Spirit, are these yours?Copy !req
783. They are man's.Copy !req
784. They cling to me for protection
from their fetters.Copy !req
785. This boy is lgnorance.
This girl is Want.Copy !req
786. Beware of them both, but most of all,
beware of this boy.Copy !req
787. But have they no refuge,
no resource?Copy !req
788. Are there no prisons?
Are there no workhouses?Copy !req
789. Are there no prisons?
Are there no workhouses?Copy !req
790. I am in the presence of the
Spirit of Christmas yet to come.Copy !req
791. And you are going to show me
shadows of things that haveCopy !req
792. not yet happened, but will happen?Copy !req
793. Spirit of the Future, I fear you more
than any other specter that I've seen.Copy !req
794. But even in my fear, I must tell you,
I am too old!Copy !req
795. I cannot change.
I can't.Copy !req
796. It is not that I am impenitent;
it's just that I -Copy !req
797. Oh, wouldn't it be better
if I just went home to bed?Copy !req
798. No?Copy !req
799. Lead me, then.Copy !req
800. He shall cover thee with His feathers,
and under His wings thou shalt trust:Copy !req
801. His truth shall be thy shield and buckler.Copy !req
802. Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by
night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day;Copy !req
803. A thousand shall fall at thy side,
and ten thousand at thy right hand;Copy !req
804. but it shall not come nigh thee.Copy !req
805. For He shall give his angels charge over
thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.Copy !req
806. Because he hath set his love upon me,
therefore will I deliver him:Copy !req
807. I will set him on high,
because he hath known my name.Copy !req
808. Because thou hast made the LORD,
which is my refuge,Copy !req
809. even the most High, thy habitation;Copy !req
810. There shall no evil befall thee,Copy !req
811. neither shall any plague
come nigh thy dwelling.Copy !req
812. He shall call upon me,
and I will answer him:Copy !req
813. I will be with him in trouble;
I will deliver him, and honor him.Copy !req
814. Shall I stop reading?Copy !req
815. No, no…
it's only the color. It hurts my eyes.Copy !req
816. They're better now.Copy !req
817. It makes them weak, by candlelight.Copy !req
818. And I wouldn't show your father weak
eyes, when he comes home, for the world.Copy !req
819. It must be near his time.
- Past it, rather.Copy !req
820. But he seems to be walking
a little slower than he used…Copy !req
821. these last few evenings.Copy !req
822. Why I've known him walk, with tiny Tim
on his shoulder, very fast, indeed.Copy !req
823. So have I… Often.Copy !req
824. So have l.
- So have l.Copy !req
825. But then, he was very light to carry and his
father loved him, so it was no trouble.Copy !req
826. No trouble.Copy !req
827. I'm a little late, my dear.
Please forgive me.Copy !req
828. You must be cold and tired.
Sit near the fire.Copy !req
829. No, no, I'm… very content, my dear.
Very content.Copy !req
830. I went to see the place
where he will rest.Copy !req
831. It's sheltered by green trees, my dear,
and very quiet and still.Copy !req
832. It was strange,
but as I stood there,Copy !req
833. I felt his hand slip in mine, as if he was
standing beside me and comforting me.Copy !req
834. I felt very peaceful, my dear.Copy !req
835. He was telling me, you see,
in his own little way, that he's happy.Copy !req
836. Truly happy now…Copy !req
837. and that we must cease to grieve
for him, and try to be happy, too.Copy !req
838. Oh Tim…
my Tiny Tim.Copy !req
839. Poor Robert, Oh Robert…
poor Robert.Copy !req
840. Hello, Joe.
Huh.Copy !req
841. Hi, Joe.
Hey.Copy !req
842. Well, come on.Copy !req
843. No, let the laundress go first.
- No, no, dear, you was here first.Copy !req
844. After you, I'm sure.Copy !req
845. Oh look, Old Joe, it's a chance…Copy !req
846. if the chow lady, the laundress,
and the undertakerCopy !req
847. haven't all met here at the
same time without meaning it!Copy !req
848. Well, you couldn't have met
in a better place.Copy !req
849. Let's go in the parlor.Copy !req
850. You were made free of it
long ago, eh?Copy !req
851. And the other two aren't strangers, heh…Copy !req
852. Uh… wait a minute just 'til I
shut the door to the shop, eh?Copy !req
853. Just shut the door of the shop.
Oh! How it screeks!Copy !req
854. There's not a rusted piece of metal
in the place like its own hinges.Copy !req
855. And, I'm sure, there are no old
bones here like mine.Copy !req
856. We're all suitable to our
callin's, eh?Copy !req
857. We're all well matched.Copy !req
858. Come into the parlor.
Come into the parlor.Copy !req
859. Who goes first?Copy !req
860. What odds, now, that all met at the once.Copy !req
861. Everyone's got a right to take care
of themselves, he always did.Copy !req
862. Oh, that's true enough, no one more so.Copy !req
863. Why then, don't stand staring
as if you was afraid, woman.Copy !req
864. Who's the wiser?Copy !req
865. We're not gonna pick holes
in each other's coats, I suppose.Copy !req
866. No, indeed!
No, we hope not!Copy !req
867. Very well then, who's the worse for
the loss of a few things like these?Copy !req
868. Not a dead man, I suppose.
- No indeed.Copy !req
869. If he wanted to keep 'em
after he was dead,Copy !req
870. why wasn't he amiable in his lifetime?Copy !req
871. If he had been, he'd have had somebody
with him when he was struck with death.Copy !req
872. Instead of lying, gasping out his
last air alone be himself.Copy !req
873. There never was a truer word spoken.
T'was a judgement on him.Copy !req
874. I wish it was a little heavier one.Copy !req
875. And it would been, if I could of laid me
hands on anything else.Copy !req
876. We knew pretty well
we was helping ourselves,Copy !req
877. before we come here, I believe.Copy !req
878. It's no sin.
Open the bundle, Joe.Copy !req
879. No, no, I'll go first.
Just to show we all got trust in one another.Copy !req
880. It's very polite of you,
I do grant, I'm sure.Copy !req
881. Watch, fob, seal, pencil case,
sleeve buttons, broach.Copy !req
882. Yes… 8 shillings, this lot, and I
wouldn't give you another 6 pence.Copy !req
883. Not if I was boiled for life
for not doing it.Copy !req
884. Who's next?Copy !req
885. Always a lady, dear.Copy !req
886. I shall have to insist you
all stop and watch mine,Copy !req
887. now that we're all so open
and above with each other.Copy !req
888. 2 sheets, 2 towels, shirt,
teaspoons, 2 silver,Copy !req
889. sugar tongs, boots assorted, four.Copy !req
890. Yeah, 17 and 6.Copy !req
891. I always give too much to a lady,
it's a weakness of mine.Copy !req
892. That's how I come to ruin myself.Copy !req
893. If you ask for another pennyCopy !req
894. might leave an open question,
I'd regret me liberality.Copy !req
895. Knock off half a crown.Copy !req
896. Now open my bundle, Joe.Copy !req
897. Come on, what's in it?Copy !req
898. Aaaah…
- Eh?Copy !req
899. You wait and see.
- Ya.Copy !req
900. Bed curtains.Copy !req
901. Bed curtains?
- Uh huh, bed curtains.Copy !req
902. What'd you? You would say
you took these down,Copy !req
903. rings and all, and…
him lying there?Copy !req
904. Yes I do, why not?Copy !req
905. You was born to make
a fortune, ma'am, and you…Copy !req
906. you certainly will.Copy !req
907. I certainly won't hold back my hand
when I can get something in itCopy !req
908. for sake of such a man as he was,
I promise you Joe.Copy !req
909. These his blankets, too?
- Who's else do ya think?Copy !req
910. He ain't likely to take cold
without 'em, I dare sayCopy !req
911. He didn't die of anything catching,
did he?Copy !req
912. Oh, don't you be afraid of it!Copy !req
913. I wasn't too fond of his companyCopy !req
914. I'd loiter about him for
such things, if he did.Copy !req
915. And you can look through that
'til your eyes acheCopy !req
916. and you won't find a hole in it.Copy !req
917. It's the best one he had,
and a fine one, too.Copy !req
918. They'd have wasted it,
if it hadn't been for me.Copy !req
919. What you mean, wasted it?Copy !req
920. Well they'd have buried him
in this, of course.Copy !req
921. But I took it off of him, again.Copy !req
922. As if calico ain't good enough
for burying.Copy !req
923. Anyway, it's just as becoming
to the body.Copy !req
924. He couldn't have looked uglier than
what he did in this one.Copy !req
925. It's poetic justice.Copy !req
926. He frightened near everybody away
from him when he was alive.Copy !req
927. And now he benefits us when he's dead.Copy !req
928. No, I don't know much
about it either way.Copy !req
929. I only know he's dead.
- When did he die?Copy !req
930. Last night, I believe.Copy !req
931. What was the matter with him?
I thought he'd never die.Copy !req
932. So did he, I dare sayCopy !req
933. What's he done with all his money?Copy !req
934. Left it to his company, where else?Copy !req
935. He didn't leave it to me…
that's all I know.Copy !req
936. Well, funeral won't cost much,
that's certain.Copy !req
937. Pawn my soul, I can't think of
anyone who'll go to it.Copy !req
938. I don't mind going…
if the lunch were provided.Copy !req
939. But I must be fed…
or else I stay at home.Copy !req
940. I know those men.Copy !req
941. They're men of business,
very wealthy, very important.Copy !req
942. Who's funeral were they talking about?Copy !req
943. Strange.Copy !req
944. My usual place is over there,
under the clock.Copy !req
945. I ought to be there this time of day.Copy !req
946. But I'm not…
I'm not!Copy !req
947. Before I draw nearer to that stone,
answer me one question.Copy !req
948. Are these the shadows of
things that must be?Copy !req
949. Or are they only shadows
of things that might be?Copy !req
950. I know that men's deeds
foreshadow certain ends,Copy !req
951. but if the deeds be departed from,
surely the ends will change!Copy !req
952. Tell me it is so with what
you show me now.Copy !req
953. No Spirit, no, no, no!Copy !req
954. Tell me I'm not already dead.
Tell me I'm not already dead!Copy !req
955. Tell me I'm not already dead.Copy !req
956. Hear me, Spirit,
I'm not the man I was.Copy !req
957. Believe me, I'm not the man I was!Copy !req
958. Why show me all this
if I'm beyond all hope?Copy !req
959. Oh, pity me, Spirit, pity me!
And help me!Copy !req
960. Help me to sponge away the
writing on the stone if I repent.Copy !req
961. And I do repent, I do repent!Copy !req
962. I'll make good, the wrongs
I've done my fellow man.Copy !req
963. And, I'll - I'll change!
I'm not the man I was.Copy !req
964. I'm not the man I was!Copy !req
965. Believe me. Believe me!
I'm not the man I was!Copy !req
966. Believe me!
I'm not the man I was.Copy !req
967. I'm not the man I was!Copy !req
968. Good morning, Sir.Copy !req
969. Tell me… what day is it?Copy !req
970. What day?Copy !req
971. Why it's Christmas Day, of course, Sir.Copy !req
972. Christmas Day, Christmas Day!
Then I haven't missed it.Copy !req
973. The spirits must have done
everything in one night.Copy !req
974. But of course, they can do
anything, can't they?Copy !req
975. Of course, they can!Copy !req
976. Are you quite yourself, Sir?
- What?Copy !req
977. I don't know.
No, I don't think so.Copy !req
978. I hope not!
- What!Copy !req
979. The curtains are still here.
They're still here!Copy !req
980. You didn't… you didn't tear
them down and sell them.Copy !req
981. They're here. Everything's here!Copy !req
982. I'm here!Copy !req
983. And the shadows of things that
would be, can still be dispelled,Copy !req
984. and they will be.
I know they will be, I know.Copy !req
985. I don't know what to do!Copy !req
986. I'm as light as a feather! Ha ha ha…Copy !req
987. I'm as happy as a…
I'm as happy as an angel!Copy !req
988. I'm as… merry as a school boy!Copy !req
989. I'm as giddy…
as a drunken man, I never…Copy !req
990. A Merry Christmas, Ebenezer!Copy !req
991. You old humbug!Copy !req
992. And a Happy New Year!
…as if you deserved it!Copy !req
993. Aaah!
- Merry Christmas, Mrs. Dilbur!Copy !req
994. Same to you, Sir.
- Well thank you, thank you, thank you.Copy !req
995. And many, many of them…
- Aaaaaah!Copy !req
996. Aaah! Likewise!Copy !req
997. Look, Mrs. Dilbur!Copy !req
998. There in the corner is where
the Spirit of Christmas Present sat.Copy !req
999. And there's the door where
Jacob Marley's ghost came through.Copy !req
1000. And there's the window where I saw
the wandering spirit.Copy !req
1001. It's right! It's true!
It all happened! Oh I…Copy !req
1002. I don't know what day of the
month it is…Copy !req
1003. I don't know how long
I've been amongst the spirits, I…Copy !req
1004. I don't know anything.
I never did know anything.Copy !req
1005. But now I know
that I don't know anything!Copy !req
1006. I don't know anything.
I never did know anything.Copy !req
1007. But now I know that I don't know
all the Christmas morning.Copy !req
1008. I must stand on my head.
I must stand on my head!Copy !req
1009. Aaaah! Aaaah, aah, ahahh!
Come back, come back!Copy !req
1010. Aaaah! Aaaaah!
Come back, come back, Mrs. Dilbur!Copy !req
1011. Aaaah! Aaaah, aah, ahahh!
Shhh, please, please, Mrs. Dilbur.Copy !req
1012. I am not mad.Copy !req
1013. Even if I do this.
Aaah!Copy !req
1014. Don't be violent, Mr. Scrooge, Sir.Copy !req
1015. You'll force me to scream
for the beetle!Copy !req
1016. The beetle, madam, ha!Copy !req
1017. A fig for the beetle.Copy !req
1018. A guinea?Copy !req
1019. What for?Copy !req
1020. I'll give you one guess.Copy !req
1021. To keep me mouth shut?
- Hmm?Copy !req
1022. To keep your mouth shut.
Oh no!Copy !req
1023. No, no, no, Mrs. Dilbur.
It's for a Christmas present.Copy !req
1024. A Christmas present?Copy !req
1025. For me?Copy !req
1026. Of course, for you!Copy !req
1027. A Merry Merry Christmas.Copy !req
1028. Dear Mrs. Dilbur, oh…
how much do I pay you?Copy !req
1029. 2 shillings a week.
- What? 2 shillings?Copy !req
1030. It's forthwith raised to 10!Copy !req
1031. 10 shillings a week, here!Copy !req
1032. You're sure, you don't
want to see a doctor?Copy !req
1033. A doctor? Certainly not!
Nor the undertaker! Ha!Copy !req
1034. Now off you go and enjoy yourself.
Like a good girl.Copy !req
1035. Bob's your uncle! Ha haCopy !req
1036. Merry Christmas, Mr. Scrooge!
In keeping with the situation!Copy !req
1037. Oh, the bells, the merry merry bells!Copy !req
1038. Oh, what a beautiful morning.Copy !req
1039. Hello there! Hello you!
You boy! You!Copy !req
1040. Who me?
- Yes, you!Copy !req
1041. Do you know the butcher's
in the next street but one?Copy !req
1042. I should hope so.Copy !req
1043. Intelligent boy, remarkable boy.Copy !req
1044. Tell me, have they sold the prize
turkey that was hanging there?Copy !req
1045. Not the little turkey, the big one?Copy !req
1046. The one as big as me?Copy !req
1047. Yes!
What a delightful boy.Copy !req
1048. Yes, my buck, the one as big as you.
- It's hanging there still.Copy !req
1049. Is it?
Very well then, go and buy it.Copy !req
1050. Won't occur!Copy !req
1051. No, no, no, wait a minute!
Wait a minute!Copy !req
1052. I'm in earnest.Copy !req
1053. Tell the butcher to bring it here,
and I'll give him the name ofCopy !req
1054. the party he's to send it to.Copy !req
1055. Come back with the butcher
and I'll give you a shilling.Copy !req
1056. Come back in less than five minutes
and I'll give you half a crown!Copy !req
1057. An enchanting boy.Copy !req
1058. I'll send it to Bob Cratchit!Copy !req
1059. That's what I'll do. He'll never
dream where it came from!Copy !req
1060. Now let me see,
I must have a label.Copy !req
1061. Label, label, label, label, label.
Label, label!Copy !req
1062. Label.Copy !req
1063. It's twice the size of tiny Tim!Copy !req
1064. Mr. Robert Cratchit, 2 Porter Street,
Camden Town.Copy !req
1065. That's you Robert, least ways there's
no one else I know of.Copy !req
1066. I think I know who sent it.
- Who?Copy !req
1067. Mr. Scrooge.Copy !req
1068. Oh dear, oh dear, whatever made
you think it might be him?Copy !req
1069. I don't know, I just think it.Copy !req
1070. What would make Mr. Scrooge take
such leave of his senses suddenly?Copy !req
1071. Christmas.Copy !req
1072. Uncle Ebenezer!Copy !req
1073. Fred, is it too late to accept
your invitation to dinner?Copy !req
1074. Too late? I'm delighted, delighted!
My dear, look who it is!Copy !req
1075. Can you forgive a pig-headed old foolCopy !req
1076. for having no eyes to see with,
no ears to hear with,Copy !req
1077. all these years?Copy !req
1078. Yes, you dear Uncle.Copy !req
1079. You've made Fred so happy.Copy !req
1080. Oh, bless you!Copy !req
1081. Dennis… polka.Copy !req
1082. Bravo, Uncle Scrooge!
Bravo!Copy !req
1083. Come on everybody.
Everybody!Copy !req
1084. Cratchit!
You're late.Copy !req
1085. Sir.Copy !req
1086. What do you mean by coming
in here this time of day, hmm?Copy !req
1087. I'm very sorry, Sir.Copy !req
1088. I am behind my time, Sir.Copy !req
1089. You are indeed!Copy !req
1090. Step this way, Mr. Cratchit, please.Copy !req
1091. It's only once a year, Sir.
It won't be repeated.Copy !req
1092. I was making rather
merry yesterday, Sir.Copy !req
1093. I'm sure you were.Copy !req
1094. Well we won't beat about
the bush, my friend.Copy !req
1095. I'm not going to stand this sort
of thing any longer.Copy !req
1096. Which leaves me no alternative
but to raise your salary.Copy !req
1097. Oh, I haven't taken leave
of my senses, Bob.Copy !req
1098. I've come to them.Copy !req
1099. From now on,Copy !req
1100. I want to try to help you
to raise that family of yours.Copy !req
1101. If you'll let me.Copy !req
1102. Well, we'll talk it over later, Bob,Copy !req
1103. over a bowl of hot punch, hmm?Copy !req
1104. Meanwhile, you just go and
put some coal on that fire.Copy !req
1105. You go straight out and
buy a new coal scuttle.Copy !req
1106. Yes, you do that before
you dot another 'I', Bob Cratchit!Copy !req
1107. Oh, I don't deserve to be so happy.Copy !req
1108. But I can't help it.Copy !req
1109. I just can't help it.Copy !req
1110. Scrooge was better than his word.Copy !req
1111. He became as good a friend,
as good a master,Copy !req
1112. and as good a man as the
good old city ever knew.Copy !req
1113. Or any other good old city, town,
or borough in the good old world.Copy !req
1114. And to tiny Tim, who lived
and got well again,Copy !req
1115. he became a second father.
- Uncle Scrooge!Copy !req
1116. And it was always said that he knew
how to keep Christmas well,Copy !req
1117. if any man alive possessed
the knowledge.Copy !req
1118. May that be truly said of us,
and all of us.Copy !req
1119. And so, as tiny Tim observed,Copy !req
1120. God bless us…
every one.Copy !req