Chapter 1
Christmas Eve at Scrooge and Marley's
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1 The old City of London lies sunk in thick brown fog on a dark Christmas Eve afternoon.
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2 Scrooge stands bareheaded on the step of his own door in the foggy court.
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3 Scrooge sits hunched over his ledger by one candle in the foggy counting-house
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4 Scrooge's nephew bursts in from the fog, glowing, wishing his uncle a merry Christmas
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5 Fred ends his defence of Christmas with his hat pressed to his heart
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6 Fred and Bob Cratchit exchange season's greetings across the cold counting-house
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7 Two portly, bareheaded gentlemen have just come in out of the fog.
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8 Scrooge tells two portly gentlemen that Marley died seven years ago this very night
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9 Scrooge calmly says the poor had better die and decrease the surplus population
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10 Scrooge snatches up his ruler behind the grimy window.
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12 The moment the office shuts, the timid clerk turns into a boy again.
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