1 "It's not my business," Scrooge returned.
2 The Spirit stopped beside one little knot of business men.
A Christmas Carol By Charles DickensContextHighlight In 4 THE LAST OF THE SPIRITS 3 He then made bold to inquire what business brought him there.
A Christmas Carol By Charles DickensContextHighlight In 2 THE FIRST OF THE THREE SPIRITS 4 In came all the young men and women employed in the business.
A Christmas Carol By Charles DickensContextHighlight In 2 THE FIRST OF THE THREE SPIRITS 5 They were men of business: very wealthy, and of great importance.
A Christmas Carol By Charles DickensContextHighlight In 4 THE LAST OF THE SPIRITS 6 It's enough for a man to understand his own business, and not to interfere with other people's.
7 The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence were, all, my business.
8 "But you were always a good man of business, Jacob," faltered Scrooge, who now began to apply this to himself.
9 Once upon a time--of all the good days in the year, on Christmas Eve--old Scrooge sat busy in his counting-house.
10 Sometimes people new to the business called Scrooge Scrooge, and sometimes Marley, but he answered to both names.
11 They left the busy scene, and went into an obscure part of the town, where Scrooge had never penetrated before, although he recognised its situation and its bad repute.
A Christmas Carol By Charles DickensContextHighlight In 4 THE LAST OF THE SPIRITS 12 And even Scrooge was not so dreadfully cut up by the sad event, but that he was an excellent man of business on the very day of the funeral, and solemnised it with an undoubted bargain.
13 His hands were busy with his garments all this time; turning them inside out, putting them on upside down, tearing them, mislaying them, making them parties to every kind of extravagance.
14 To hear Scrooge expending all the earnestness of his nature on such subjects, in a most extraordinary voice between laughing and crying; and to see his heightened and excited face; would have been a surprise to his business friends in the City, indeed.
A Christmas Carol By Charles DickensContextHighlight In 2 THE FIRST OF THE THREE SPIRITS 15 Although they had but that moment left the school behind them, they were now in the busy thoroughfares of a city, where shadowy passengers passed and repassed; where shadowy carts and coaches battled for the way, and all the strife and tumult of a real city were.
A Christmas Carol By Charles DickensContextHighlight In 2 THE FIRST OF THE THREE SPIRITS 16 They were a gloomy suite of rooms, in a lowering pile of building up a yard, where it had so little business to be, that one could scarcely help fancying it must have run there when it was a young house, playing at hide-and-seek with other houses, and have forgotten the way out again.
17 The two young Cratchits laughed tremendously at the idea of Peter's being a man of business; and Peter himself looked thoughtfully at the fire from between his collars, as if he were deliberating what particular investments he should favour when he came into the receipt of that bewildering income.
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