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 Office2022-10-08T22:49:43+01:00Categories: 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 Office2022-10-08T20:19:30+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 Office2022-10-07T21:12:54+01:00Categories: 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 Office2022-10-12T19:35:13+01:00Categories: A Christmas Carol|Tags: Christmas, Miserly| Read More
A tight-fisted hand at the grindstone. The Circumlocution Office2022-10-06T22:08:24+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 Office2022-10-09T16:45:46+01:00Categories: A Christmas Carol|Tags: Fire, Miserly| Read More
Bah! Humbug! The Circumlocution Office2022-09-26T16:27:35+01:00Categories: A Christmas Carol|Tags: Humbug, Miserly, Misery| Read More
Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it. The Circumlocution Office2022-09-26T16:31:36+01:00Categories: A Christmas Carol|Tags: Miserly| Read More
