Category: Plays/Films/Dramas
BOB. Ruin you--with such a fire in such weather! I've been trying to warm myself by the candle for the last half hour, but not being a man of strong imagination, failed.
BOB. Ruin you--with such a fire in such weather! I've been trying to warm myself by the candle for the last half hour, but not being a man of strong imagination, failed.
13. SCENE VIII.--_SCROOGE'S Chamber. Same as Scene I, Act I. It is broadSCR. Pity me! I will not be the man I have been! Oh, no, no! (_Pauses, and looks around him._) Ah! here! Could it all have been a dream! A dream--ha, ha, ha! A dream! Yes! this...
6. SCENE I.--_Humble Apartment in BOB CRATCHIT'S House. Table, chairs,_MRS. CRATCHIT and BELINDA CRATCHIT discovered laying the cloth. PETER CRATCHIT is by fire. SCROOGE and the SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS PRESENT rise through the Stage, and stand aside a...
8. SCENE III.--_Interior of a Marine Store Shop. Old iron, phials, etc.,SCR. What foul and obscure place is this? What place of bad repute--of houses wretched--of people half naked--drunken and ill-favoured? The whole quarter reeks with crime--with...
2. SCENE II.--_A Street. Houses covered with snow.SAM. It's very odd! I an't nimmed nothing to-night. Christmas eve, too--when people's got sich lots of tin! But they takes precious good care of it, 'cos I s'pose they thinks if...
5. SCENE V.--_Drawing-room in FRANK FREEHEART'S house._FRANK, CAROLINE his wife, MR. CHEERLY, and male and female Guests discovered--some are seated on a sofa on one side, others surround a table on the other side. SCROOGE and the...
11. SCENE VI.--_Apartment at BOB CRATCHIT'S.MRS. C. (_Laying down her work. Mourning._) The colour hurts my eyes, and I wouldn't show weak eyes to your father. It must be near his time--he walks slower than he used, and y...
12. SCENE VII.--_A Churchyard. On slab centre, is engraved "EBENEZERSCR. A churchyard! Here, then, the wretched man who's name I have now to learn, lays underneath the ground! (_The SPIRIT points to centre slab. SCROOGE advances, trembling, towa...
7. SCENE II.--_A Street. Night.SCR. This Spirit's mysterious presence fills me with a solemn dread! I am in the presence of the Ghost of Christmas yet to come! (_The SPIRIT points onward._) You are about to s...
4. SCENE IV.--_A Bleak and Barren Moor. A poor mud cabin._ (_Painted in2ND SPIRIT. A place where miners live, who labour in the bowels of the earth--they know me. See! (_As he speaks, the window is lighted from within. The SPIRIT draws SCROOGE to w...
3. SCENE III.--_SCROOGE'S chamber, as before._SCROOGE discovered, sleeping in a chair. The Stage becomes suddenly quite light, and the GHOST OF CHRISTMAS PRESENT discovered, as in WORK, page 78, the wall at back covered wi...
10. SCENE V.--_A chamber. SCROOGE and SPIRIT on L. H.EUS. What the half drunken-woman told me last night, when I tried to see him and obtain a week's delay, and which I thought a mere excuse to avoid me, was true,--he was not only...
9. SCENE IV.--_A chamber. Curtain drawn over recess. The SPIRIT points toSCR. (_Recoiling in terror._) Ah! a bare uncurtained bed, and something there, which, though dumb, announces itself in awful language! Yes, plundered and bereft, unwatched, unwe...