... 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", "if I could work my will, every idiot who goes about with merry Christmas ... to the sun, and this is twelve at noon!" He is also unsure whether Marley really did visit him, or whether it was just a dream. "Every time he resolved within himself, after mature inquiry, that it was all a dream, his mind flew back ag...

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