... unfeeling, cruel man who cares only about making money. "A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner!" He thinks of Christmas as a "humbug", "Out upon merry Christmas! What's Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money; a time for finding yourself a year older, and not an hour richer", ... his business friends in the city, indeed". Scrooge begins to reflect upon his most recent mean actions. "There was a boy singing a Christmas carol at my door last night. I should like to have given him something: that's all". He is remorseful that he...

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