`It is.’ It was with great astonishment, and with a strange, inexplicable dread, that as he looked, he saw this bell begin to swing. Yet such was I! What right have you to be merry? I don’t mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a door-nail. A CHRISTMAS CAROL - STAVE ONE QUOTES (SCROOGE ("Scrooge never painted…: A CHRISTMAS CAROL - STAVE ONE QUOTES, "Foggier yet, and colder! The air was filled with phantoms, wandering hither and thither in restless haste, and moaning as they went. Scrooge fell upon his knees, and clasped his hands before his face. You’re quite a powerful speaker, sir,’ he added, turning to his nephew. to relate. a year ago. May it haunt their houses pleasantly, and no one wish to lay it. A Christmas Carol - Chapter 1 This is the B2 level text of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol chapter 1 with audio and comprehension questions. The same face: the very same. My spirit never walked beyond our counting-house -- mark me! The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. At the ominous word `liberality,’ Scrooge frowned, and shook his head, and handed the credentials back. `Are they still in operation?’? `Ask me who I was.’ There is no doubt that Marley was dead. So A Merry Christmas, uncle!’ The firm was known as Scrooge and Marley. Scrooge said that he would see him -- yes, indeed he did. Yet such was I! The door of Scrooge’s counting-house was open that he might keep his eye upon his clerk, who in a dismal little cell beyond, a sort of tank, was copying letters. Poulterers’ and grocers’ trades became a splendid joke; a glorious pageant, with which it was next to impossible to believe that such dull principles as bargain and sale had anything to do. The Lord Mayor, in the stronghold of the mighty Mansion House, gave orders to his fifty cooks and butlers to keep Christmas as a Lord Mayor’s household should; and even the little tailor, whom he had fined five shillings on the previous Monday for being drunk and bloodthirsty in the streets, stirred up to-morrow’s pudding in his garret, while his lean wife and the baby sallied out to buy the beef. Scrooge was very much dismayed to hear the spectre going on at this rate, and began to quake exceedingly. Read STAVE 1 of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. But he put his hand upon the key he had relinquished, turned it sturdily, walked in, and lighted his candle. There’s more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!’ Scrooge shivered, and wiped the perspiration from his brow. Scrooge had a very small fire, but the clerk’s fire was so very much smaller that it looked like one coal. `Do it, then.’ Subscribe Now Fred, Scrooge’s young and … It is doomed to wander through the world -- oh, woe is me! `Dreadful apparition, why do you trouble me?’ Vocabulary. What’s Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money; a time for finding yourself a year older, but not an hour richer; a time for balancing your books and having every item in ’em through a round dozen of months presented dead against you? And even Scrooge was not so dreadfully cut up by the sad event, but that he was an excellent man of business on the very day of the funeral, and solemnised it with an undoubted bargain. There is no doubt whatever about that. `And travelling all the time!’ Let it also be borne in mind that Scrooge had not bestowed one thought on Marley, since his last mention of his seven years’ dead partner that afternoon. `Why did you get married?’ said Scrooge. Why give it as a reason for not coming now?’ `Christmas a humbug, uncle!’ said Scrooge’s nephew. answer choices . `He died seven years ago, this very night.’ `Nephew!’ returned the uncle sternly, `keep Christmas in your own way, and let me keep it in mine.’ `You see this toothpick?’ said Scrooge, returning quickly to the charge, for the reason just assigned; and wishing, though it were only for a second, to divert the vision’s stony gaze from himself. Seeing clearly that it would be useless to pursue their point, the gentlemen withdrew. He had been quite familiar with one old ghost, in a white waistcoat, with a monstrous iron safe attached to its ankle, who cried piteously at being unable to assist a wretched woman with an infant, whom it saw below, upon a door-step. the point I started from. If you would like the full address of these pages not as links (e.g. The chain he drew was clasped about his middle. His nephew, Fred. Half a dozen gas-lamps out of the street wouldn’t have lighted the entry too well, so you may suppose that it was pretty dark with Scrooge’s dip. `You’re particular, for a shade.’ He was going to say `to a shade,’ but substituted this, as more appropriate. How could it be otherwise? Episode 1: Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is unimpressed by Christmas… Save. Inside the office, Scrooge watches over his clerk, a poor diminutive man named Bob Cratchit. assign, his sole residuary legatee, his sole friend, and
But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grind- stone, Scrooge! God save you!’ cried a cheerful voice. It was double-locked, as he had locked it with his own hands, and the bolts were undisturbed. Stave 2. 16 terms. `I wear the chain I forged in life,’ replied the Ghost. Still,’ returned the gentleman, `I wish I could say they were not.’. `You were always a good friend to me,’ said Scrooge. Scrooge was not much in the habit of cracking jokes, nor did he feel, in his heart, by any means waggish then. `Because you fell in love!’ growled Scrooge, as if that were the only one thing in the world more ridiculous than a merry Christmas. 10 terms. `I can.’ Be here all the earlier next morning. Nikolipi. They had books and papers in their hands, and bowed to him. Here are links to our lists for the novel: Chapters 1–2, Chapter 3, … Every room above, and every cask in the wine-merchant’s cellars below, appeared to have a separate peal of echoes of its own. It is a ponderous chain! Family. Not to know that no space of regret can make amends for one life’s opportunity misused! Whether these creatures faded into mist, or mist enshrouded them, he could not tell. Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol Stave 1: Marley's Ghost Marley was dead: to begin with. He stopped at the outer door to bestow the greetings of the season on the clerk, who cold as he was, was warmer than Scrooge; for he returned them cordially. God save you!’ cried a cheerful voice. And being, from the emotion he had undergone, or the fatigues of the day, or his glimpse of the Invisible World, or the dull conversation of the Ghost, or the lateness of the hour, much in need of repose; went straight to bed, without undressing, and fell asleep upon the instant. Up Scrooge went, not caring a button for that. Many had been personally known to Scrooge in their lives. the weight and length of the strong coil you bear yourself? It was with great astonishment, and with a strange, inexplicable dread, that as he looked, he saw this bell begin to swing. Chapter Summaries Stave 1 Summary Stave 2 Summary ... Download A Christmas Carol Study Guide. To see the dingy cloud come drooping down, obscuring everything, one might have thought that Nature lived hard by, and was brewing on a large scale. The register of his burial was
A Christmas Carol quizzes about important details and events in every section of the book. But they and their spirit voices faded together; and the night became as it had been when he walked home. That, and its livid colour, made it horrible; but its horror seemed to be in spite of the face and beyond its control, rather than a part or its own expression. `Or would you know,’ pursued the Ghost, `the weight and length of the strong coil you bear yourself? All as they should be. This lunatic, in letting Scrooge’s nephew out, had let two other people in. It is also a fact, that Scrooge had seen it, night and morning, during his whole residence in that place; also that Scrooge had as little of what is called fancy about him as any man in the city of London, even including -- which is a bold word -- the corporation, aldermen, and livery. `Mankind was my business. Come! signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker,
The air was filled with phantoms, wandering hither and thither in restless haste, and moaning as they went. Chapter 1. Expect the first tomorrow, when the bell tolls One.’ But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country’s done for. A Christmas Carol Stave 1 DRAFT. Though he looked the phantom through and through, though he felt the chilling influence of its death-cold eyes. partners for I don't know how many years. And then let any man explain to me, if he can, how it happened that Scrooge, having his key in the lock of the door, saw in the knocker, without its undergoing any intermediate process of change -- not a knocker, but Marley’s face. `The Treadmill and the Poor Law are in full vigour, then?’ said Scrooge. he was all in a glow; his face was ruddy and handsome; his eyes sparkled, and his breath smoked again. `Humbug!’ said Scrooge; and walked across the room. The fog came pouring in at every chink and keyhole, and was so dense without, that although the court was of the narrowest, the houses opposite were mere phantoms. Noun. went down a slide on Cornhill, at the end of a lane of boys, twenty times, in honour of its being Christmas Eve, and then ran home to Camden Town as hard as he could pelt, to play at blindman’s-buff. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. There it stood, years afterwards, above the warehouse door: Scrooge and Marley. A Christmas Carol Chapter 1 | Marley’s Ghost (Part 1) 10. `Good afternoon,’ said Scrooge. It was cold, bleak, biting weather: foggy withal: and he could hear the people in the court outside, go wheezing up and down, beating their hands upon their breasts, and stamping their feet upon the pavement stones to warm them. A Christmas Carol Chapter List. The truth is, that he tried to be smart, as a means of distracting his own attention, and keeping down his terror; for the spectre’s voice disturbed the very marrow in his bones. As Scrooge looked fixedly at this phenomenon, it was a knocker again. `You must have been very slow about it, Jacob,’ Scrooge observed, in a business-like manner, though with humility and deference. After several turns, he sat down again. Scrooge having no better answer ready on the spur of the moment, said `Bah!' His sister. Dine with us tomorrow.’. Thus secured against surprise, he took off his cravat; put on his dressing-gown and slippers, and his nightcap; and sat down before the fire to take his gruel. It was not an agreeable idea. Scrooge was not a man to be frightened by echoes. boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. But I have made the trial in homage to Christmas, and I’ll keep my Christmas humour to the last. Mine occupies me constantly. 23 A Christmas Carol: Stave 1 Charles Dickens. If we were not perfectly convinced that Hamlet’s Father died before the play began, there would be nothing more remarkable in his taking a stroll at night, in an easterly wind, upon his own ramparts, than there would be in any other middle-aged gentleman rashly turning out after dark in a breezy spot -- say Saint Paul’s Churchyard for instance -- literally to astonish his son’s weak mind. It was a very low fire indeed; nothing on such a bitter night. `Because,’ said Scrooge, `a little thing affects them. Page 1 of 27. `You are not looking at it,’ said Scrooge. An animated summary of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol"Stave I of VA Digital Arts & Humanities Project/The University of Texas at Dallas `Who were you then?’ said Scrooge, raising his voice. On Christmas Eve, cruel penny-pincher Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by three spirits who show him visions of his past, present, and future. It was not angry or ferocious, but looked at Scrooge as Marley used to look: with ghostly spectacles turned up on its ghostly forehead. gentleman rashly turning out after dark in a breezy
This must be distinctly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate. The misery with them all was, clearly, that they sought to interfere, for good, in human matters, and had lost the power for ever. `He died seven years ago, this very night.’. Scrooge followed to the window: desperate in his curiosity. One Christmas eve, old Scrooge sat busy in his counting-house. shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for. And
Much good it has ever done you!’, There are many things from which I might have derived good, by which I have not profited, I dare say, But I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round. Nobody under the bed; nobody in the closet; nobody in his dressing-gown, which was hanging up in a suspicious attitude against the wall. But what did Scrooge care! was dead. But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grind- stone, Scrooge! Come! 618 times. Nor can I tell you what I would. Stave 1: Marley's Ghost It was full as heavy and as long as this, seven Christmas Eves ago. A Christmas Carol - Chapter 1 Summary & Analysis Charles Dickens This Study Guide consists of approximately 75 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of A Christmas Carol. [2] It was cold, bleak, biting, foggy weather; and the city clocks had only just gone three, but it was quite dark already. What shall I put you down for?’ Marley’s Ghost. The narrator reminds the reader that Scrooge’s ex-partner Marley has been dead several years. Chapter Summary for Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol, stave 1 summary. When Scrooge awoke, it was so dark, that looking out of bed, he … Scrooge knew he was dead? But you were always a good man of business, Jacob,’ faltered Scrooge, who now began to apply this to himself. `It’s not convenient,’ said Scrooge, `and it’s not fair. THE FIRST OF THE THREE SPIRITS. `There are many things from which I might have derived good, by which I have not profited, I dare say,’ returned the nephew. never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that it has done me good. Sometimes people new to the
`What do you want with me?’ ... Who DOES NOT visit Scrooge in chapter one? When they were within two paces of each other, Marley’s Ghost held up its hand, warning him to come no nearer. Not to know that no space of regret can make amends for one life’s opportunity misused! stroll at night, in an easterly wind, upon his own ramparts,
`No rest, no peace. wander through the world -- oh, woe is me! You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a door-nail. You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of an underdone potato. Piercing,searching, biting cold" The cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, shrivelled his cheek, stiffened his gait; made his eyes red, his thin lips blue; and spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice. The city clocks had only just gone three, but it was quite dark already -- it had not been light all day -- and candles were flaring in the windows of the neighbouring offices, like ruddy smears upon the palpable brown air. `You travel fast?’ said Scrooge. ˈʌndərteɪkər. Marley was dead: to begin with. Scrooge signed it. When will you come to see me?’ No beggars implored him to bestow a trifle, no children asked him what it was o’clock, no man or woman ever once in all his life inquired the way to such and such a place, of Scrooge. `Mr. Marley has been dead these seven years,’ Scrooge replied. is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands
They were a gloomy suite of rooms, in a lowering pile of building up a yard, where it had so little business to be, that one could scarcely help fancying it must have run there when it was a young house, playing at hide-and-seek with other houses, and forgotten the way out again. Historical Context It was all the same to him. They were succeeded by a clanking noise, deep down below; as if some person were dragging a heavy chain over the casks in the wine merchant’s cellar. `Good afternoon,’ said Scrooge. in the trade. e for the rest of my days persecuted by a legion of goblins, all of my own creation. How could it be otherwise? `Without their visits,’ said the Ghost, `you cannot hope to shun the path I tread. Again the spectre raised a cry, and shook its chain and wrung its shadowy hands. a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner! To sit, staring at those fixed glazed eyes, in silence for a moment, would play, Scrooge felt, the very deuce with him. Marley and Scrooge were business partners once. `Since you ask me what I wish, gentlemen, that is my answer. `And A Happy New Year!’ The hair was curiously stirred, as if by breath or hot air; and, though the eyes were wide open, they were perfectly motionless. Scrooge is a skinflint businessman who represents the greediest impulses of Victorian England's rich. Chapter 1 – Marley’s Ghost. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. On a frigid, foggy Christmas Eve in London, a shrewd, mean-spirited cheapskate named Ebenezer Scrooge works meticulously in his counting-house. To edge his way along the crowded paths of life, warning all human sympathy to keep its distance, was what the knowing ones call `nuts’ to Scrooge. `I don’t.’ said Scrooge. Don’t be flowery, Jacob! › Lesen › Literatur › Christmas Carol › Chapter 1 - Marley's Ghost. Stave 2. Let it also be borne in mind that Scrooge had not bestowed one thought on Marley, since his last mention of his seven years’ dead partner that afternoon. not to know, that ages of incessant labour, by immortal creatures, for this earth must pass into eternity before the good of which it is susceptible is all developed. `If they would rather die,’ said Scrooge, `they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population. There it stood, years afterwards, above the warehouse
At this time of the rolling year,’ the spectre said `I suffer most. Quite satisfied, he closed his door, and locked himself in; double-locked himself in, which was not his custom. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. Scrooge and he were
Mind! Lumber-room as usual. `In life I was your partner, Jacob Marley.’ Scrooge never painted out Old Marley’s name. The hair was curiously stirred, as if by breath or hot air; and, though the eyes were wide open, they were perfectly motionless. In the main street at the corner of the court, some labourers were repairing the gas-pipes, and had lighted a great fire in a brazier, round which a party of ragged men and boys were gathered: warming their hands and winking their eyes before the blaze in rapture. `Because I fell in love.’ It was cold, bleak, biting weather: foggy withal: and he could hear the people in the court outside, go wheezing up and down, beating their hands upon their breasts, and stamping their feet upon the pavement stones to warm them. Scrooge never painted out Old Marley's name. The Ghost of Jacob Marley. `Let me leave it alone, then,’ said Scrooge. Scrooge signed it. Sheev Marley was dead to begin with. A slight disorder of the stomach makes them cheats. `And the Union workhouses’ demanded Scrooge. I don't mean to say that I know, of my
as if that were the only one thing in the world more ridiculous than a merry Christmas. The water-plug being left in solitude, its overflowing sullenly congealed, and turned to misanthropic ice. The smoldering ashes in the fireplace provide little heat even for Bob's tiny room. Be here all the earlier next morning.’ Download A Christmas Carol pdf File size: 0.2 MB What's this? One verse followed another always with the same glad refrain: "And pray a gladsome Christmas For all your fellow-men: Carol, brothers, carol, Christmas Day again." Edit. Merry Christmas! The door of Scrooge’s counting-house was open that he might keep his eye upon his clerk, who in a dismal little cell beyond, a sort of tank, was copying letters. Whether these creatures faded into mist, or mist enshrouded them, he could not tell. You’re poor enough.’ Outside the office creaks a little sign reading \"Scrooge and Marley\"--Jacob Marley, Scrooge's business partner, has died seven years previous. Good afternoon, gentlemen!’ `Who are you?’ He ventured to raise his eyes again, and found his supernatural visitor confronting him in an erect attitude, with its chain wound over and about its arm. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business. A Christmas Carol: Stave 1 Summary & Analysis Next. If I was to stop half-a-crown for it, you’d think yourself ill-used, I’ll be bound?’ `A merry Christmas, uncle! The clerk in the Tank involuntarily applauded. Many people prefer to read off-line or to print out text and read from the real printed page. Scrooge trembled more and more. A Christmas Carol Stave 3. The firm was known as
for Scrooge kept the coal-box in his own room; and so surely as the clerk came in with the shovel, the master predicted that it would be necessary for them to part. Scrooge had often heard it said that Marley had no bowels, but he had never believed it until now. and candles were flaring in the windows of the neighbouring offices, like ruddy smears upon the palpable brown air. A Christmas Carol is foremost a Christian allegory of redemption about, as Fred says, the "kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time" of Christmas. And even Scrooge was not so dreadfully cut up by the sad event, but that he was an excellent man of business on the very day of the funeral, and solemnised it with an undoubted bargain. I have sat invisible beside you many and many a day.’ Nobody ever stopped him in the street to say, with gladsome looks, `My dear Scrooge, how are you? Scrooge had a very small fire, but the clerk’s fire was so very much smaller that it looked like one coal. Sitting-room, bedroom, lumber-room. `What else can I be,’ returned the uncle, `when I live in such a world of fools as this? Of course he did. Scrooge was not much in the habit of cracking jokes, nor did he feel, in his heart, by any means waggish then. There is no doubt that Marley
AP Human Geography Chapter 7 & 8. It was the very thing he liked. Scrooge and he were partners for I don’t know how many years. What reason have you to be morose? Assess your knowledge of Stave 1 of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol using this combination quiz and worksheet. Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster. It was long, and wound about him like a tail; and it was made (for Scrooge observed it closely) of cash-boxes, keys, padlocks, ledgers, deeds, and heavy purses wrought in steel. `What right have you to be dismal? `Oh! A Christmas Carol By Charles Dickens Page 2 of 27. Besides -- excuse me -- I don’t know that.’, It’s enough for a man to understand his own business, gruff old bell was always peeping slily down at Scrooge, ragged men and boys were gathered: warming their hands and winking their eyes before the blaze in rapture. Oh! A Christmas Carol Stave 1 DRAFT. such was I!’ Scrooge was his sole executor, his sole administrator, his sole assign, his sole residuary legatee, his sole friend, and sole mourner. `Hear me!’ cried the Ghost. The clerk observed that it was only once a year. `Nothing!’ Scrooge replied. 36 terms. It was old enough now, and dreary enough, for nobody lived in it but Scrooge, the other rooms being all let out as offices.
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