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-The date...

-1843.

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-The place...

-London!

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The season...

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That of jollity, festivity and charity.

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Holly and berries and good will to all men.

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With perhaps one exception...

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ALL: SCROOGE!

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A squeezing...

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..wrenching...

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..grasping...

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..scraping...

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..clutching...

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.covetous old sinner!

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Hard and sharp as flint...

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..from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire.

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Secret and self-contained...

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..and as solitary as an oyster

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He carried his own low temperature always about him.

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He iced his office in the dog days...

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..and didn't thaw it one degree at Christmas.

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Once upon a time...

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..of all the good days in the year, on Christmas Eve...

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Old Scrooge sat busy in his counting house.

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It was cold, bleak, biting weather.

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The clocks had just gone three, but it was already quite dark.

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The door to Scrooge's office was open that

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he might keep his eye upon his clerk...

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..who, in a dismal little cell beyond, was copying letters and

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trying to warm himself at the candle, in which effort...

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..not being a man of strong imagination...

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..he failed.

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Merry Christmas, Uncle, God save you!

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It was Scrooge's nephew Fred, in cheerful voice.

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Bah! Humbug!

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Christmas a humbug, Uncle? You don't mean that, I am sure.

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I do. "Merry Christmas"?

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What right have you to be merry?

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What reason have you to be merry, you are poor enough.

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What right have you to be dismal? What right have you to be morose? You're rich enough!

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Scrooge, having no better answer ready on the spur of the moment,

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-said...

-Bah!

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-..again, and followed it up with...

-Humbug!

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Don't be cross, Uncle!

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What else can I be, when I live in such a world of fools as this?

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"Merry Christmas"(!)

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If I could work my will, every idiot who goes about with

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"Merry Christmas" on his lips should be boiled with his own pudding,

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and buried with a stake of holly through his heart.

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Oh, Uncle!

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Keep Christmas in your own way, and let me keep it in mine.

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I have always thought Christmas a good time - a kind, forgiving,

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charitable time when men and women open their shut-up hearts

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freely and think of people below them.

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Come dine with us tomorrow!

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I'll see you in hell first, Nephew.

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I'm sorry with all my heart to see you so resolute,

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but I'll keep my Christmas humour to the last.

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Good afternoon, Nephew.

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Merry Christmas, Uncle.

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I said good afternoon!

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And Happy New Year! And to you too, Mr Cratchit.

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Merry Christmas, sir.

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There's another fellow, my clerk,

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with 15/- a week and a wife and family,

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talking about a merry Christmas.

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Bah!

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What now, Cratchit?

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Sir, these gentlemen...

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Have I the pleasure of addressing Mr Scrooge or Mr Marley?

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Jacob Marley died seven years ago this very night, sir.

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We have no doubt his liberality is well represented by his

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surviving partner.

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At this festive season of the year, Mr Scrooge,

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it is more than usually desirable that we make provision for

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the poor and destitute who suffer greatly.

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Many thousands are in want of common necessities and comforts, sir.

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Are there no prisons or workhouses in operation?

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There are, I wish I could say they were not.

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I'm very glad to hear it. I help to support those establishments,

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they cost enough and those who are badly off must go there!

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Many would rather die!

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Then they had better do it and decrease the surplus population.

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Now, good afternoon, gentlemen!

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-But sir...!

-This way. if you please, gentlemen.

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# God rest ye merry Gentlemen, let nothing you dismay... #

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Cease your caterwauling, child!

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At length, the hour of shutting up the counting house arrived

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and Scrooge tacitly admitted the fact to the expectant clerk,

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who instantly snuffed his candle out.

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You'll want all day tomorrow, I suppose?

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If quite convenient, sir.

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It is NOT convenient and it's not fair.

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If I was to stop you half a crown for it,

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you'd think yourself ill used, I'll be bound.

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And yet you do not think me ill used when I pay a day's wages for no work!

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It is only once a year, sir.

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A poor excuse for picking a man's pocket every 25th of December!

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Yes, sir, Merry Christmas, sir... I mean... Um...

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The clerk made his exit as fast as he could,

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went down a slide on Cornhill in honour of its being Christmas Eve...

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And then ran home to Camden Town as hard as he could pelt,

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to play blind man's buff with his children.

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Scrooge took his melancholy dinner in his usual melancholy tavern,

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and having read all the newspapers, and beguiled the rest of the

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evening with his banker's book, went home to bed.

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He lived in chambers which had once belonged to his deceased partner...

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A gloomy set of rooms...

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..old enough and dreary enough now...

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..for nobody lived in them but Scrooge.

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CRASHING

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How now, what do you want with me?

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Much.

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Who are you?

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Ask me who I was.

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Marley?!

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Do you believe in me?

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I don't!

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HE GROANS

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Mercy! Dreadful apparition, why do you trouble me?

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Man of the worldly mind, do you believe in me or not?

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I do...I must!

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But why does a spirit such as you walk the Earth?

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And why do you come to me?

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It is required of every man that the spirit within him should walk

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abroad and travel far and wide.

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It is doomed to wander through the world and witness what it

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cannot share, but might have shared on Earth and turned to happiness.

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Why are you fettered so?

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I wear the chain I forged in life.

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I made it, link by link and yard by yard.

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It is a ponderous chain.

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Jacob, please, speak comfort to me.

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I have none to give.

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I cannot rest, Ebenezer, I cannot stay, I cannot linger anywhere.

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No rest, no peace. Incessant torture of remorse.

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No space for regret, to make amends for life's opportunities misused!

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Yet such am I!

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But you were always such a good man of business, Jacob.

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Business! Mankind was my business!

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Charity, mercy, benevolence were all my business and I failed.

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But Jacob...

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I am here tonight to warn you

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that you have a chance yet and a hope of escaping my fate.

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A chance and hope of my procuring, Ebenezer.

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You always were a good friend to me.

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You will be haunted by three spirits.

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I think I'd rather not.

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Without their visits, you cannot hope to shun the path that I tread.

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The first tomorrow, when the bell tolls one.

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Couldn't I take 'em all at once and have it over, Jacob?

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Expect the second on the next night at the same hour. The third upon the next night.

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Look to see me no more, and look that, for your own sake,

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you remember what happened between us.

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And then the air was filled with phantoms, wandering hither

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and thither in restless haste and moaning as they went.

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And whether these creatures faded into mist, or the mist enshrouded them,

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he could not tell.

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But they and their spirit voices faded

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and the night became as it had been.

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HE BREATHES HEAVILY

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When Scrooge awoke it was so dark and he was endeavouring to

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pierce the darkness when the chimes of the neighbouring church struck.

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CLOCK STRIKES

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One o'clock?

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It isn't possible that I have slept through

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a whole day and far into another night.

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Are you the spirit, whose coming was foretold to me?

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I am.

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Who and what are you?

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I am the Ghost of Christmas Past. Your past.

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And what is your business?

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Your welfare. Now rise, and walk with me.

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They passed through a wall and arrived upon a country road,

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with fields on either side.

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The darkness had vanished, for it was a clear, cold winter day,

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with snow upon the ground.

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Good heaven!

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I was bred in this place, I was a boy here!

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-Your lip is trembling.

-And what is that upon your cheek?

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They walked on along the road,

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Scrooge recognising every gate and post and tree.

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Some shaggy ponies now were trotting towards them with boys upon

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their backs.

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PONIES NEIGH

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Come on, hurry up!

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Wait for me!

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Why, it's Pip, and young Davey! Hello there!

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These are but shadows of things that have been,

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they have no consciousness of us.

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But Scrooge knew and named them, every one.

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Why did his cold eye glisten,

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and why did his heart leap up as they went past?

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Why was he filled with gladness when he heard them give each other

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a "Merry Christmas" as they parted?

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What was "Merry Christmas" to Scrooge?

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What good had it ever done him?

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That school is not quite deserted.

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A solitary child, neglected by his friends, is left there still.

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And there, in a melancholy room,

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a lonely child sat reading by a feeble fire.

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Scrooge wept to see his poor forgotten self as he used to be.

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After a moment, the spirit took his hand, and on they went.

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Let us see another Christmas.

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To the busy thoroughfare of the city, and it was plain enough

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that here was Christmas-time.

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The ghost stopped at a certain warehouse door.

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Do you know this place?

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Why, I was apprenticed here!

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Why, it's old Fezziwig! Fezziwig, alive again!

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Bless his heart.

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Yo-ho there, Ebenezer, Dick!

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No more work tonight, it's Christmas Eve!

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Clear away, lads, let's have lots of room here!

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It was done in a minute.

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Every movable was packed off, the floor was swept and watered,

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the lamps were trimmed and the warehouse was as dry and warm and

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snug and bright a ballroom as you could desire on a winter's night.

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In came a fiddler and Mrs Fezziwig

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and all the men and women employed in their business.

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Welcome, welcome all!

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FOLK MUSIC PLAYS

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There were dances and forfeits.

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And more dances and cakes.

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And a great piece of cold roast.

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Mince pies and plenty of beer.

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APPLAUSE

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A small matter to make these silly folks so full of gratitude.

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-Small?!

-Is it not?

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He has spent just a few pounds of your mortal money.

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Is that so much that he deserves this praise?

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It isn't that. He has the power to render us... happy.

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The happiness he gives is as great as if it cost a fortune!

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I...

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What is the matter?

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Nothing.

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I should like to be able to say a word or two to my clerk just

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now is all.

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My time grows short. Quick!

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And now Scrooge saw himself, older now, in the prime of life.

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His face had begun to wear the signs of care and avarice

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And by him, a fair young girl, in whose eyes there were tears.

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Oh, Ebenezer, another idol has displaced me,

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and if it can cheer and comfort you in time to come as I would

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have tried to do, I have no just cause to grieve.

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What idol?

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A golden one.

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But this is the dealing of the world!

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There is nothing so hard as poverty.

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You fear the world too much and it has changed you.

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I have seen your nobler aspirations fall off one by one,

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until only gain engrosses you.

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I am not changed towards you.

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Our contract was an old one.

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It was made when we were both poor and content to be so.

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When it was made, you were a changed man.

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I was a boy.

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That which promised happiness when we were one in heart

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is fraught with misery now that we are two.

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I release you from our betrothal.

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Have I ever sought release?

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In words, never.

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In what, then?

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In a changed nature, an altered spirit.

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In everything that made my love of any worth or value in your sight.

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Belle!

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May you be happy in the life that you have chosen.

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SHE SOBS

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Remove me from this place.

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She is married now, with a happy family of her own.

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Why do you delight in torturing me?

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I told you these are but shadows of things that have been.

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That they are what they are, do not blame me!

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I cannot bear it, take me back, haunt me no more!

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Awaking in the middle of a prodigious snore,

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and sitting up in bed to get his thoughts together, Scrooge had

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no occasion to be told that the bell was again upon the stroke of one.

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It was his own room, but transformed.

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CLOCK STRIKES

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The walls and ceiling were so hung with living green that it

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looked a perfect grove.

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Come, Ebenezer Scrooge!

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And heaped upon the floor were turkeys, geese, game,

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great joints of meat,

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sausages, mince pies,

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plum puddings and seething bowls of punch,

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and there sat a jolly giant, glorious to see.

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I am the Ghost of Christmas Present - look upon me!

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You have never seen the like of me before!

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Never. Spirit, conduct me where you will.

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Tonight, if you have ought to teach me, let me profit by it.

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Touch my robe.

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The room, the fire, the ruddy glow, all

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vanished instantly and they stood in the streets

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on Christmas morning.

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And they came to the threshold of Bob Cratchit's dwelling

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and the spirit smiled and blessed it with a sprinkling of her torch.

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And then came Mrs Cratchit, dressed out but poorly in

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a twice-turned gown but brave in ribbons, and laid the cloth.

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And in came Bob with Tiny Tim on his shoulder.

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How did little Tim behave?

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As good as gold and better.

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He told me coming home that he hoped the people saw him in church

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because he was a cripple, and it might be pleasant for them to

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remember upon Christmas Day who made lame beggars walk and blind men see.

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Oh, Tim, sometimes you think the strangest things I ever heard.

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But you're growing strong and hearty, aren't you, Tim?

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Strong and hearty!

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And such a bustle ensued, with goose and gravy

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and mashed potatoes.

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And a steamed pudding.

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A wonderful pudding, my dear.

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It is your greatest success since our wedding day.

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A merry Christmas to us all, my dears.

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God bless us.

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Bless us, every one.

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And Bob held his withered little hand in his, as if he

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loved the child and wished to keep him at his side and dreaded

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that he might be taken from him.

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Spirit, tell me, tell me Tiny Tim will live.

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I see a vacant seat in the poor chimney corner,

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and a crutch without an owner.

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No, no!

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If these shadows remain unaltered by the future, the child will die.

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No, kind spirit, say he will be spared!

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If he be like to die,

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he had better do it and decrease the surplus population.

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And Scrooge hung his head to hear his own words quoted by the

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spirit, and was overcome with penitence and grief.

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Mr Scrooge.

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A toast to Mr Scrooge, a founder of the feast.

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The founder of the feast, indeed(!)

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I wish I had him here.

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I'd give him a piece of my mind to feast upon.

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Scrooge was the ogre of the family, the mention of his name cast

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a dark shadow on the party for a full five minutes.

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After that had passed away, they were ten times merrier than before.

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They were not a handsome family, not well dressed, and their shoes

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were far from being waterproof, their clothes were scanty.

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But they were happy.

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Grateful and happier yet in the bright sprinkling of the

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spirit's torch at parting.

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Scrooge had his eye upon them, especially on Tiny Tim,

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until the last.

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# In the bleak midwinter

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# Frosty wind made moan

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# Earth stood hard as iron... #

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And without a word of warning from the ghost, they flew to

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the deep mines of the moors where an old man sang a song from when he

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was a boy, to a solitary lighthouse on which the waters chafed

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and dashed, but even here, two men wished each other a Merry Christmas.

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And across the heaving sea to a ship, where every man among them

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hummed a Christmas tune.

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And finally to the home of his nephew, Fred.

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He said that Christmas was humbug, as I live.

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More shame for him!

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And not so pleasant as he might be.

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Well, I'm sure he's very rich, Fred.

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What of that?

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His wealth will be of no use to him.

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He don't do any good with it,

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he's never going to benefit us with it.

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Well, I have no patience for him.

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I have. I am sorry for him.

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Who suffers by his ill whims? Himself!

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He takes it into his head to dislike us,

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then he won't come and dine with us...

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And loses himself a very good dinner.

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Well, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to the old man,

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wherever he is!

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He wouldn't take it from me, but he may have it nonetheless!

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Scrooge would have thanked his nephew,

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had the ghost given him time, but they were again on their travels.

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Much they saw, and far they went, and many homes they visited,

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but always with a happy end.

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It was a long night, and strange, for while Scrooge remained

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unaltered, the ghost grew older.

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Are spirits lives so short?

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My life is brief, it ends tonight at midnight.

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CLOCK CHIMES

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Hark.

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The time is drawing near.

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Forgive me, but I think I see something strange protruding

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from your skirts.

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Aye, look here.

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They were a boy and girl.

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Yellow, meagre, ragged, scowling, wolfish.

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Age had pinched and twisted them and pulled them into shreds.

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Where angels might have sat,

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devils lurked and glared out menacingly.

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Are they yours?

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They are Man's, they cling to me, appealing for their fathers.

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This boy is Ignorance, this girl is Want.

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Beware them both, but most beware the boy, for he is Doom!

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Have they no refuge or resource?

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Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?

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And as Scrooge looked in shame to the ground,

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the spirit turned from him for the last time.

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CLOCK CHIMES

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And lifting up his eyes, Scrooge beheld a solemn phantom,

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draped and hooded, coming towards him.

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The mysterious figure filled him with solemn dread,

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but did not speak.

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I am in the presence of the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come.

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You are about to show me shadows of the things that have not

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happened, but will happen in the time before us, is that so?

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I fear you more than any spectre I have seen.

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But as I know your purpose is to do me good, and as I hope to live

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to be another man from what I was,

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I am prepared to bear your company and do it with a thankful heart.

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Lead on, then, spirit, lead on.

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The city seemed to spring up around them and the spirit stopped

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beside two businessmen.

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I only know he's dead.

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When did he die?

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Last night, I believe.

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I thought he'd never die.

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What have they done with all his money?

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Left it to his company, perhaps.

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Didn't leave it to me, that's all I know.

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It's likely to be a very cheap funeral for I don't know of

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anybody to go to it.

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Suppose we make up a party and volunteer?

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I don't mind going if lunch is provided, but I must be fed,

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if I make one.

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Let's hope he didn't die of anything catching.

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THEY LAUGH

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Spirit, show me see some tenderness connected to death,

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at least.

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And so they moved on,

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to a churchyard, walled-in by houses,

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overrun with grass and weeds.

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And there a solitary figure beside a tiny grave

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No? No, not the boy?

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Spirit?

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Are these the shadows of the things that WILL be,

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or of things that MAY be, only?

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Am I the man who lies in this lonely grave?

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No, Spirit, oh, no, no!

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Hear me, I am not the man I was.

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I will not be the man I must have been but for this intercourse.

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Why show me this if I am past all hope?

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Pray, good Spirit, assure me that I yet may change these shadows

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you have shown me by an altered life!

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I WILL honour Christmas in my heart and try to keep in all the year!

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I will live in the past, the present and the future.

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The spirits of all three shall strive within me!

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I will not shut out the lessons that they teach.

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Tell me...tell me

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I may sponge away the writing on this stone.

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Spirit? Spirit?

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Spirit?

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Scrooge found himself back in his own home.

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The bed was his own, the room was his own.

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Best and happiest of all, the time before him was his own,

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to make amends in.

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I will live in the past, the present and the future!

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The spirits of all three will live within me!

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Oh, Jacob Marley, heaven and...

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..Christmas-time be praised for this!

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The shadows of the things that would have been may be dispelled!

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They will be!

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HE LAUGHS THEN SOBS

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Oh, I don't know what to do.

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I am as light as a feather.

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HE LAUGHS

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I'm as merry as a schoolboy.

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I'm as giddy as a drunken man.

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A very merry Christmas to everybody!

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A Happy New Year to all the world!

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Hello, there. What's today, my fine fellow?

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Today? Why, it's Christmas Day!

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How is that possible?

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Why, the spirits have done it all in one night.

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Well, of course they can.

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I haven't missed it, then.

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Boy, do you know the poulterer's on the corner?

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I should hope I did.

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An intelligent boy, a remarkable boy.

0:28:020:28:05

Do you know if they've sold the prize turkey that was hanging

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up there?

0:28:080:28:10

What, the one that's as big as me? It's hanging there now.

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Then go and buy it! I am in earnest.

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Tell 'em to bring it here,

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that I might give them the direction of where to take it.

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Come with the man and I will give you a shilling.

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Yes, sir!

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I'll send it to Bob Cratchit's.

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HE LAUGHS

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He won't know who sent it!

0:28:280:28:29

It's twice the size of Tiny Tim!

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Scrooge was early at the office next morning.

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If only he could only be there first,

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and catch Bob Cratchit coming late.

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And he did.

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Bob was a full 18 minutes and a half behind his time.

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Hello...

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What do you mean by coming here at this time of day?

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I am very sorry, sir, I am behind my time.

0:28:510:28:54

Yes, I think you are.

0:28:540:28:56

It's only once a year, sir.

0:28:560:28:57

It shall not be repeated, I was making rather merry yesterday, sir.

0:28:570:29:01

I tell you what, my friend, I am not going to stand for this sort

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of thing any longer.

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And therefore, I am going to raise your salary.

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Sir?

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Merry Christmas, Bob!

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HE LAUGHS

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A merrier Christmas, my good fellow, than I have given you for many

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a year.

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I'll raise your salary and endeavour to assist your struggling

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family and we will discuss your affairs this very afternoon

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over a Christmas bowl of smoking bishop!

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Scrooge was better than his word.

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He did it all, and infinitely more, and to Tiny Tim...

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..who did not die...

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..he was a second father.

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He became as good a friend, as good a master,

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and as good a man as the good, old city knew

0:29:500:29:53

Some people laughed at his alteration

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and he let them laugh and little heeded them.

0:29:550:29:58

His own heart laughed and that was good enough for him.

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He had no further intercourse with spirits.

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And it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well...

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If any man possessed the knowledge.

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May that be truly said of all of us.

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Merry Christmas.

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And, as Tiny Tim observed...

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God bless us, every one.

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# God rest ye merry gentlemen, let nothing you dismay

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# Remember Christ our Saviour was born on Christmas Day

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# To save us all from Satan's power

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# Where we were gone astray

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# O, tidings of comfort and joy Comfort and joy

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# Oh, tidings of comfort and joy

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# Now to the Lord sing praises, all you within this place

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# And with true love and brotherhood each other now embrace

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# This holy tide of Christmas

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# All other doth deface

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# O tidings of comfort and joy Comfort and joy

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# O tidings of comfort and joy. #

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APPLAUSE

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AUDIENCE: Bravo! Bravo!

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