Now, make sure that the drop of the entire amount of this transaction is deposited with my clerk. I'll give you a moment to make up your minds. If you wait until tomorrow, it'll cost you another five-percent. Scrooge, a moment! We'll take your corn for the price you quoted yesterday. We pay your price, then our bread will be dearer the poor will suffer!īuy the corn someplace else. That's outrageous, Scrooge! You'll be left with a warehouse stuffed with corn! You want my corn, gentlemen, you must meet my quote. Didn't I say Ebenezer Scrooge would be here? I knew you'd change your mind. Why do you show me this? What does it have to do with me?Īh, Ebenezer! We were afraid you weren't coming. I'd rather we all drown in the river than go to one of those places and be separated forever. Tomorrow take the children and go to the parish poorhouse. They're hard hands they've done hard work. Have you visited any of them? These institutions you speak of? Children eating scraps! There are institutions. Why are these people out here? Men and women in rags. I didn't steal them, if that's what you say. At least there's one thing still free in this country. It's a place, like many in this world.Īh, it'll last through the night. Where are we now? I'm sure I don't know this place. The film was directed by Clive Donner, who had been an editor of the 1951 film Scrooge, and stars George C. Now, please get back to work before I am forced to conclude that your services are no longer required. A Christmas Carol is a 1984 British-American made-for-television film adaptation of Charles Dickens ' famous 1843 novella of the same name. There will be no more coal burned in this office today. Once purchased, they may be used indefinitely for the purpose for which they are intended. Garments were invented by the human race as protection against the cold. Would it be too much to ask that you get back to the work for which I pay you so handsomely? Marley died, seven years ago this very day. "Are there no workhouses? Are there no prisons?" They are your children! They are the children of all who walk the earth unseen! Their names are Ignorance and Want! Beware of them, for upon their brow is written the word "doom"! They spell the downfall of you and all who deny their existence! Why do you show me this? What has it to do with me?Īre they not of the human race? Look here, beneath my robe!
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