1 "Now, I'll tell you what, my friend," said Scrooge.
2 "You were always a good friend to me," said Scrooge.
3 In came the cook, with her brother's particular friend the milkman.
A Christmas Carol By Charles DickensContextHighlight In 2 THE FIRST OF THE THREE SPIRITS 4 And their assembled friends, being not a bit behindhand, roared out lustily.
A Christmas Carol By Charles DickensContextHighlight In 3 THE SECOND OF THE THREE SPIRITS 5 Scrooge was his sole executor, his sole administrator, his sole assign, his sole residuary legatee, his sole friend, and sole mourner.
6 When I come to think of it, I'm not at all sure that I wasn't his most particular friend; for we used to stop and speak whenever we met.
A Christmas Carol By Charles DickensContextHighlight In 4 THE LAST OF THE SPIRITS 7 He became as good a friend, as good a master, and as good a man as the good old City knew, or any other good old city, town, or borough in the good old world.
8 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 9 But, if you had judged from the numbers of people on their way to friendly gatherings, you might have thought that no one was at home to give them welcome when they got there, instead of every house expecting company, and piling up its fires half-chimney high.
A Christmas Carol By Charles DickensContextHighlight In 3 THE SECOND OF THE THREE SPIRITS