The door of Scrooge’s counting-house was open that he might keep his eye upon his clerk, who in a dismal little cell beyond, a sort of tank, was copying letters. The Circumlocution Office2020-11-15T10:25:39+00:00Categories: A Christmas Carol|Tags: Mean, Miserly| Read More
The clerk in the Tank involuntarily applauded. Becoming immediately sensible of the impropriety, he poked the fire, and extinguished the last frail spark for ever. The Circumlocution Office2020-09-02T17:00:34+01:00Categories: A Christmas Carol|Tags: Miserly| Read More
I don’t make merry myself at Christmas and I can’t afford to make idle people merry. The Circumlocution Office2021-01-11T20:58:40+00:00Categories: A Christmas Carol|Tags: Charity, Christmas, Misanthropic, Misanthropy, Miserly| Read More
A poor excuse for picking a man’s pocket every twenty-fifth of December! The Circumlocution Office2020-12-10T21:13:44+00:00Categories: A Christmas Carol|Tags: Christmas, Miserly| Read More
A tight-fisted hand at the grindstone. The Circumlocution Office2020-09-01T20:21:45+01:00Categories: A Christmas Carol|Tags: Miserly, Work| Read More
Scrooge had a very small fire, but the clerk’s fire was so very much smaller that it looked like one coal. The Circumlocution Office2020-12-17T21:15:24+00:00Categories: A Christmas Carol|Tags: Fire, Miserly| Read More
Bah! Humbug! The Circumlocution Office2020-10-26T08:21:36+00:00Categories: A Christmas Carol|Tags: Humbug, Miserly, Misery| Read More
Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it. The Circumlocution Office2020-11-30T10:31:09+00:00Categories: A Christmas Carol|Tags: Miserly| Read More