there were more children there than Scrooge in his agitated mind could count, and unlike the celebrated poem, not every forty children were acting as one, but every child was acting as forty.

“He had been for many years, a quiet silent man, associating but little with oth…”

“I'm a straw upon the surface of the deep, and am tossed in all directions by th…”

“with a most intent and searching gaze”

“If Nicholas be not always found to be blameless or agreeable, he is not always …”