... it is not the gift alone that is important, but the spirit with which it is given, too. For instance, the schoolmasters gift of "curiously heavy" cake and "curiously light wine" was received only with an increased desire of Scrooge and his sister to escape the school because of his "ferocious condescension" toward the party. Ergo, Dickens insists, generosity and goodwill ... ...

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... only being a raging fire, but a smouldering ash waiting for her revenge for her family. Where " As a whirlpool of boiling waters has a centre point, so, all this raging circled round Defarge's wine-shop, and every human drop in the cauldron already begrimed with gunpowder and sweat, issued orders, issued arms, thrust this man back, dragged this man forward, disarmed one to arm ... ...

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