“Are you the Spirit, sir, whose coming was foretold to me?” asked Scrooge. “I am!” The voice was soft and gentle. Singularly low, as if instead of being so close beside him, it were at a distance. “Who, and what, are you?” Scrooge demanded. “I am the Ghost of ChristmasContinue reading “Screen Scrooges: A Ghost’s Mission”
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Screen Scrooges: The Ghost of Christmas Past
The curtains of the bed were drawn aside, I tell you, by a hand. Not the curtains at his feet, nor the curtains at his back, but those to which his face was addressed. The curtains of his bed were drawn aside and Scrooge, starting up into a half-recumbent attitude, found himself face toContinue reading “Screen Scrooges: The Ghost of Christmas Past”
Screen Scrooges: Something Is Coming
Stave Two: The First of the Three Spirits When Scrooge awoke, it was so dark, that looking out of bed, he could scarcely distinguish the transparent window from the opaque walls of his chamber. He was endeavoring to pierce the darkness with his ferret eyes, when the chimes of a neighboring clock struck theContinue reading “Screen Scrooges: Something Is Coming”
Screen Scrooges: The Wandering Spirits
The apparition walked backward from him; and at every step it took. The window raised itself a little, so that when the spectre reached it, it was wide open. It beckoned Scrooge to approach, which he did. When they were within two paces of each other, Marley’s ghost held up its hand, warning himContinue reading “Screen Scrooges: The Wandering Spirits”
Screen Scrooges: Another Chance for Ebenezer
Scrooge was very much dismayed to hear the spectre going on at this rate, and began to quake exceedingly. “Hear me!” cried the Ghost. “My time is nearly gone.” “I will,” said Scrooge. “But don’t be hard upon me! Don’t be flowery, Jacob! Pray!” “How is it that I appear beforeContinue reading “Screen Scrooges: Another Chance for Ebenezer”
Screen Scrooges: Sufferings of the Late Mr. Marley
“It is required of every man,” the Ghost returned, “that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellow-men, and travel far and wide; and if that spirit goes not forth in life, it is condemned to do so after death. It is doomed to wander through the world-ah, woe is me!-and witnessContinue reading “Screen Scrooges: Sufferings of the Late Mr. Marley”
Screen Scrooges: Jacob Marley
After several turns, he sat down again. As he threw his head back in the chair, his glance happened to rest upon a bell, a disused bell, that hung in this room, and communicated for some purpose now forgotten with a chamber in the highest story of the building. It was with great astonishment,Continue reading “Screen Scrooges: Jacob Marley”
SCREEN SCROOGES: Scrooge Settles In
The sound resounded through the house like thunder. Every room above, and every cask in the wine=merchant’s cellars below, appeared to have a separate a peal of echoes of its own. Scrooge Was not a man to be frightened by echoes. He fastened the door, and walked across the hall, and up the stairs;Continue reading “SCREEN SCROOGES: Scrooge Settles In”
SCREEN SCROOGES: Ebenezer’s Front Door
Scrooge took his melancholy dinner in his usual melancholy tavern; and having read all the newspapers, and beguiled the rest of the evening with his banker’s book, went home to bed. He lived in chambers which had once belonged to his deceased partner. They were a gloomy suite of rooms, in a lowering pileContinue reading “SCREEN SCROOGES: Ebenezer’s Front Door”
SCREEN SCROOGES: All Day Tomorrow?
At length the hour of shutting up the counting-house arrived; with an ill-will Scrooge dismounted from his stool, and tacitly admitted the fact to the expectant clerk in the Tank, who instantly snuffed his candle out and put on his hat. “You’ll want all day tomorrow, I suppose?” said Scrooge. “If quiteContinue reading “SCREEN SCROOGES: All Day Tomorrow?”