Category Archives: Scrooge

     Scrooge promised that he would’; and they went on, invisible, as they had been before, into the suburbs of the town.  It was a remarkable quality of the Ghost (which Scrooge had observed at the baker’s) that notwithstanding his gigantic size, he could accommodate himself to any place with ease; and that he stoodContinue reading “Screen Scrooges: The Cratchits at Home”

      “Spirit,” said Scrooge, after a moment’s thought, “I wonder you, of all the beings in the many worlds about us, should desire to cramp these people’s opportunities of innocent merriment.”      “I!” cried the Spirit!      “You would deprive them of their means of dining every seventh day, often the only day on whichContinue reading “Screen Scrooges: Sundays”

     Holly, mistletoe, and berries, ivy, turkey, geese, game, poultry, brawn, meat, pigs, sausages,, oysters, pies, puddings, fruit, and punch, all vanished instantly.  So did the room, the fire, the ruddy glow, the hour of night, and they stood in the city streets on Christmas morning, where (for the weather was severe), the people madeContinue reading “Screen Scrooges: Christmas Present”

      The moment Scrooge’s hand was on the lock, a strange voice called hi by his name, and bade him enter.  He obeyed.      It was his own room.  There was no doubt about that./  But it had undergone a surprising transformation.  The walls and ceiling were so hung with living green, that it lookedContinue reading “Screen Scrooges: The Ghost of Christmas Present”

Stace Three: The Second of the Three Spirits      Waking in the middle of a prodigiously tough snore, and sitting up in bed to get his thoughts together, Scrooge had no occasion to be told that the bell was again upon the stroke of One.  He felt that he was restored to consciousness in theContinue reading “Screen Scrooges: Something’s Afoot”

      But the relentless Spirit pinioned him in both his arms, and forced him to observe what happened next.      They were in another scene and place: a room, not very large or handsome, but full of comfort.  Near to the winter fire sat a beautiful young girl, so like the last that Scrooge believedContinue reading “Screen Scrooges: Belle Again”

     This was not addressed to Scrooge; nor to anyone whom he could see, but it produced an immediate effect.  For again Scrooge was himself.  He was older now, a man in the prime of life.  His face had not the harsh and rigid lines of later years; but it had begun to wear theContinue reading “Screen Scrooges: Belle Once”

      Although they had but that moment left the school behind them, they were now in the busy thoroughfares of a city, where shadowy passengers passed and repassed; where shadowy carts and coaches battled for the way, and all the strife and tumult of a real city were.  It was made plain enough, by theContinue reading “Screen Scrooges: Fezziwig’s Christmas”

     Scrooge’s former self grew larger at the words, and the room became a little darker and more dirty.  The panels shrunk, the windows cracked; fragments of plaster fell out of the ceiling, and the naked laths were shown instead; but how this was all brought about, Scrooge knew no more than you do.  HeContinue reading “Screen Scrooges: Fan”

     As the words were spoken, they passed through the wall, and stood upon an open country road, with fields on either hand.  The city had entirely vanished.  Not a vestige of it was to be seen, the darkness and the mist had vanished with it, for it was a clear, cold winter day, withContinue reading “Screen Scrooges: School Days”