![]() It is enough that I have thought of it, and can release you.” How often and how keenly I have thought of this, I will not say. That which promised happiness when we were one in heart, is fraught with misery now that we are two. “Your own feeling tells you that you were not what you are,” she returned. It was made when we were both poor and content to be so, until, in good season, we could improve our worldly fortune by our patient industry. “Even if I have grown so much wiser, what then? I am not changed towards you.” I have seen your nobler aspirations fall off one by one, until the master-passion, Gain, engrosses you. “All your other hopes have merged into the hope of being beyond the chance of its sordid reproach. “You fear the world too much,” she answered, gently. “ There is nothing on which it is so hard as poverty and there is nothing it professes to condemn with such severity as the pursuit of wealth!” “This is the even-handed dealing of the world!” he said. “What Idol has displaced you?” he rejoined. Another idol has displaced me and if it can cheer and comfort you in time to come, as I would have tried to do, I have no just cause to grieve.” He was not alone, but sat by the side of a fair young girl in a mourning-dress: in whose eyes there were tears, which sparkled in the light that shone out of the Ghost of Christmas Past. There was an eager, greedy, restless motion in the eye, which showed the passion that had taken root, and where the shadow of the growing tree would fall. His face had not the harsh and rigid lines of later years but it had begun to wear the signs of care and avarice. He was older now a man in the prime of life. ![]() This was not addressed to Scrooge, or to any one whom he could see, but it produced an immediate effect. “My time grows short,” observed the Spirit. Taken from the following passage in Stave 2 ( The First Of The Three Spirits) of A Christmas Carol: The scene is one of a number from the past that Ebenezer Scrooge is transported to by the Ghost of Christmas Past. Fezziwig dancing away at their Christmas party. Illustration from the original publication of A Christmas Carol showing a joyous Mr. About The Circumlocution Office Website.The rise and fall of The Eagle and Grecian, City Road. All the fun of Charles Dickens’s Greenwich Fair.The Song of the Shirt: Mrs Biddell and an early victory in the Victorian court of public opinion.View over 250 locations associated with Charles Dickens in our trail.View quotations by character (sorted by work).View all our archive of over 600 Charles Dickens quotations.The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain.Charles Dickens speech to Metropolitan Sanitary Association.Edward Bulwer Lytton Dickens (1852–1902).Sydney Smith Haldimand Dickens (1847–1872).Alfred DOrsay Tennyson Dickens (1845–1912).Walter Savage Landor Dickens (1841–1863). ![]() Catherine Elizabeth Macready Dickens (1839–1929).Charles Culliford Boz Dickens (1837–1896).
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