Scrooge Flashcards
(23 cards)
Squeezing
but he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, clutching, covetous old sinner
Treadmill
The Treadmill and the Poor Law are in full vigour, then?
Idle
I can’t afford to make idle people merry
Surplus
they had better do it and decrease the surplus population
Nothing
But there was nothing on the back of the door apart from the screws and nuts that held the knocker on.
Grave
There’s more gravy than grave about you,
Robinson Crusoe
Poor Robin Crusoe, where have you been?
Flint
Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire;
Happiness he gives
The happiness he gives, is quite as great as if it cost a fortune
Clerk
I should like to be able to say a word or two to my clerk just now. That’s all.
Reaction to seeing daughter
Remove me! I cannot bear it!
Tiny Tim?
Spirit, tell me if Tiny Tim will live.
Light as a feather
I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy. I’m quite a baby!
Salary raise
I’ll raise your salary and endeavour to assist your struggling family.
Tiny Tim second father
to Tiny Tim who did NOT die, he was a second father.
Scrooge did infinitely more
Scrooge was better than his word. He did it all, and infinitely more.
Solitary child
A solitary child, neglected by his friends
Hope yet
There is hope yet Caroline
Every person has the right to
Every person has the right to take care of themselves. He always did (Mrs Dibbler)
Solitary
Solitary as an oyster
Physical Scrooge
The cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose… made his eyes red, his thin lips blue;
Triadic good a friend
He became as good a friend, as good a master, and as good a man, as the good old city knew
Damascus
at the Gate of Damascus
