For a man who had been out of practice for so many years it was a splendid laugh! The Circumlocution Office2022-10-09T21:08:31+01:00Categories: A Christmas Carol|Tags: Humour| Read More
I wear the chain I forged in life. The Circumlocution Office2022-10-06T22:30:46+01:00Categories: A Christmas Carol|Tags: Destiny, Emotions| Read More
With a full heart, for the love of him you once were. The Circumlocution Office2022-10-09T20:54:04+01:00Categories: A Christmas Carol|Tags: Love, Regret| Read More
If they would rather die, they’d better do it, and decrease the surplus population. The Circumlocution Office2023-01-12T22:11:30+00:00Categories: A Christmas Carol|Tags: Population, Poverty| Read More
It’s enough for a man to understand his own business, and not to interfere with other people’s. The Circumlocution Office2023-01-12T22:11:31+00:00Categories: A Christmas Carol|Tags: Business| Read More
He was checked in his transports by the churches ringing out the lustiest peals he had ever heard. Clash, clang, hammer; ding, dong, bell. Bell, dong, ding; hammer, clang, clash! Oh, glorious, glorious! The Circumlocution Office2023-01-12T22:11:32+00:00Categories: A Christmas Carol|Tags: Church Bells, Joy| Read More
A smell like a washing-day! The Circumlocution Office2023-01-12T22:11:32+00:00Categories: A Christmas Carol|Tags: Christmas, Food, Laundry, Smell, Washing| Read More
Are these the shadows of the things that Will be, or are they shadows of the things that May be only? The Circumlocution Office2023-01-12T22:11:33+00:00Categories: A Christmas Carol|Tags: Destiny, Regret| Read More
It is required of every man that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellow-men, and travel far and wide; and, if that spirit goes not forth in life, it is condemned to do so after death. The Circumlocution Office2023-01-12T22:11:34+00:00Categories: A Christmas Carol|Tags: Death, Guilt| Read More
Assure me that I yet may change these shadows you have shown me, by an altered life! The Circumlocution Office2023-01-12T22:11:34+00:00Categories: A Christmas Carol|Tags: Destiny, Redemption, Regret| Read More
Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it. The Circumlocution Office2023-01-12T22:11:35+00:00Categories: A Christmas Carol|Tags: Miserly| Read More
The happiness he gives, is quite as great as if it cost a fortune. The Circumlocution Office2023-01-12T22:11:30+00:00Categories: A Christmas Carol|Tags: Joy| Read More
This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. The Circumlocution Office2023-01-12T22:11:29+00:00Categories: A Christmas Carol|Tags: Greed, Poverty| Read More
Your reclamation, then. Take heed! The Circumlocution Office2023-01-12T22:11:28+00:00Categories: A Christmas Carol|Tags: Redemption| Read More
A sobbing gaslight in the counting-house window, and a burglarious stream of fog creeping in to strangle it through the keyhole of the main door. The Circumlocution Office2023-01-12T22:11:28+00:00Categories: Our Mutual Friend|Tags: Appearance (Places), Fog, London| Read More
