Chapter 4
The Lonely Schoolboy and Little Fan
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1 A clear, snowy winter country with fields, a road, a cart and a little market-town
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2 The city has vanished.
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3 For the first time, the old miser's hard face gives way.
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4 Scrooge and the Ghost of Christmas Past walk up a snowy lane toward the red brick school
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5 The Ghost brings Scrooge into the long, bare schoolroom of his boyhood.
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6 A figure from a storybook stands outside the schoolroom window in the grey winter yard.
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7 In the schoolroom, Scrooge wishes he had given something to the boy who sang a carol
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8 Little Fan bursts into the cold schoolroom and runs toward her lonely brother
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9 Little Fan bursts into the grey, crumbling schoolroom.
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10 The Spirit reminds Scrooge that Fan's only child is the nephew he turned away
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11 Scrooge gives a guarded yes, eyes sliding away to the wheel-ruts in the snowy drive
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