1. Tear-stained and trembling, Scrooge hugs the post of his own four-poster bed

    The bedpost is his own

    YES! and the bedpost was his own. The bed was his own, the room was his own. Best and happiest of all, the Time before him was his own, to make amends in!

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  2. At dawn Scrooge hugs his bed-curtain, still on its rings, weeping and laughing

    Not torn down

    "They are not torn down," cried Scrooge, folding one of his bed-curtains in his arms, "they are not torn down, rings and all. They are here—I am here—the shadows of the things that would have been, may be dispelled. They will be. I know they will!"

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  3. On Christmas morning Scrooge leans out of his window into golden sunlight and bells

    Head out the window

    Running to the window, he opened it, and put out his head. No fog, no mist; clear, bright, jovial, stirring, cold; cold, piping for the blood to dance to; Golden sunlight; Heavenly sky; sweet fresh air; merry bells. Oh, glorious! Glorious!

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  4. A boy in his Sunday best shouts up to Scrooge's window that it is Christmas Day

    Why, Christmas Day

    "To-day!" replied the boy. "Why, CHRISTMAS DAY."

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  5. The prize turkey reaches Scrooge's door in the bright frost.

    Here's the Turkey

    "Why, it's impossible to carry that to Camden Town," said Scrooge. "You must have a cab."

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  6. The portly gentleman loses his breath at the sum Scrooge whispers to him

    Lord bless me

    "Lord bless me!" cried the gentleman, as if his breath were taken away. "My dear Mr. Scrooge, are you serious?"

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  7. Scrooge stands in Fred's dining-room doorway, hat in hand, humbly asking to come in

    Will you let me in

    "It's I. Your uncle Scrooge. I have come to dinner. Will you let me in, Fred?"

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  8. Fred pumps his uncle's hand and pulls him into the lamplit dining-room

    Nearly shook his arm off

    Let him in! It is a mercy he didn't shake his arm off. He was at home in five minutes. Nothing could be heartier. His niece looked just the same. So did Topper when he came. So did the plump sister when she came. So did every one when they came. Wonderful party, wonderful games, wonderful unanimity, won-der-ful happiness!

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  9. Scrooge leaps off his stool and jabs Bob Cratchit in the waistcoat

    A dig in the waistcoat

    "Now, I'll tell you what, my friend," said Scrooge, "I am not going to stand this sort of thing any longer. And therefore," he continued, leaping from his stool, and giving Bob such a dig in the waistcoat that he staggered back into the Tank again; "and therefore I am about to raise your salary!"

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  10. Scrooge claps his startled clerk on the back and grips his arm, tearful and glowing with goodwill.

    A merry Christmas, Bob

    "A merry Christmas, Bob!" said Scrooge, with an earnestness that could not be mistaken, as he clapped him on the back. "A merrier Christmas, Bob, my good fellow, than I have given you, for many a year! I'll raise your salary, and endeavour to assist your struggling family, and we will discuss your affairs this very afternoon, over a Christmas bowl of smoking bishop, Bob! Make up the fires, and buy another coal-scuttle before you dot another i, Bob Cratchit!"

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  11. London's roofs, chimneys and steeples on a clear Christmas morning

    God bless Us, Every One

    He had no further intercourse with Spirits, but lived upon the Total Abstinence Principle, ever afterwards; and it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us! And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God bless Us, Every One!

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  12. Chapter 13

    Scrooge wakes reformed and makes amends

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