Chapter 6
Belle's release and the snuffed-out light
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1 Scrooge in his prime sits on the settle beside Belle.
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2 Young Scrooge, now in his prime, sits on a plain settle beside Belle in her mourning dress.
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3 Belle speaks her last words and draws her hands back from the young man's side
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4 Belle walks away from the settle into the fading light, and young Scrooge stays seated and silent.
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5 Scrooge twists away, but the Ghost of Christmas Past holds him and turns him to the dark
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6 Scrooge, held fast by the Ghost, stands unseen by the cold window of a noisy, firelit parlour.
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7 At Belle's fireside, Scrooge thinks a daughter like hers might have called him father
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8 Unseen Scrooge bows his head as Belle's husband says he sat quite alone in the world
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9 The Spirit's calm gaze holds fragments of the lonely schoolboy, Fan and Belle
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10 Scrooge desperately raises the extinguisher-cap over the Ghost's blazing light.
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11 Scrooge presses down on the extinguisher-cap, but the Spirit's light still pours out
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