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Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol (1984) Feature

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"The Spirit stopped beside one little knot of business
men. Observing that the hand was pointed to them, Scrooge
advanced to listen to their talk.

'No,' said a great fat man with a monstrous chin,' I
don't know much about it, either way. I only know he's dead.'

'When did he die.' inquired another.

'Last night, I believe.'

Why, what was the matter with him.' asked a third, taking
a vast quantity of snuff out of a very large snuff-box.
'I thought he'd never die.'

'God knows,' said the first, with a yawn.

'What has he done with his money.' asked a red-faced
gentleman with a pendulous excrescence on the end of his
nose, that shook like the gills of a turkey-cock.

'I haven't heard,' said the man with the large chin,
yawning again. 'Left it to his company, perhaps. He hasn't
left it to me. That's all I know.'

This pleasantry was received with a general laugh.

'It's likely to be a very cheap funeral,' said the same
speaker;' for upon my life I don't know of anybody to go
to it. Suppose we make up a party and volunteer.'

'I don't mind going if a lunch is provided,' observed the
gentleman with the excrescence on his nose. 'But I must
be fed, if I make one.'

Another laugh."

- A Christmas Carol, Stave 4: The Last of the Spirits

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