Scrooge

Ebenezer:
Why?

Ebenezer:
What is your business here?

Spirit of Christmas Past:
Your welfare.

Ebenezer:
My welfare?

Spirit of Christmas Past:
Your reclamation, then. Take heed, rise, and walk with me.

Ebenezer:
Through the window?

Spirit of Christmas Past:
Are you afraid?

Ebenezer:
Well... I am a mortal, and liable to fall.

Spirit of Christmas Past:
Bear but a touch of my hand, and you will be upheld in more than this.

Bob Cratchit:
Mr. Scrooge?

Ebenezer:
I'm busy.

Bob Cratchit:
Well, it's about Mr. Marley, sir! He's dying!

Ebenezer:
Well, what do you want me to do about it? If he's dying, he's dying.

Ebenezer:
Who are you?

Jacob Marley:
Ask me who I was.

Ebenezer:
Well all right! Who WERE you then?

Jacob Marley:
In life, I was your partner, Jacob Marley.

Ebenezer:
Well, in that case, CAN you sit down?

Jacob Marley:
I can.

Ebenezer:
You see that toothpick?

Jacob Marley:
I do.

Ebenezer:
You're not even looking at it!

Jacob Marley:
Yet I see it, notwithstanding.

Ebenezer:
Well, then, I'll just swallow this and be tortured by a legion of hobgoblins, all of my own creation! It's all HUMBUG, I tell you!

Ebenezer:
But it was only that you were an honest man of business!

Jacob Marley:
BUSINESS? Mankind was my business! Their common welfare was my business!

Jacob Marley:
Look to see me no more. BUT LOOK HERE, that you may remember what has transpired between us!

Ebenezer:
Why do they mourn?

Jacob Marley:
They seek to intervene in human affairs, and have lost the power to do so forever.

Ebenezer:
Who is that? The doctor?

Mrs. Dilber:
No, the undertaker.

Ebenezer:
You don't believe in letting the grass grow under your feet, do you?

The Undertaker:
Ours is a very competitive business, sir.

Spirit of Christmas Present:
So! Is your heart still unmoved towards us, then?

Ebenezer:
I'm too old and beyond hope! Go and redeem some younger, more promising creature, and leave me to keep Christmas in my own way!

Spirit of Christmas Present:
Mortal! We Spirits of Christmas do not live only one day of our year. We live the whole three-hundred and sixty-five. So is it true of the Child born in Bethlehem. He does not live in men's hearts one day of the year, but in all days of the year. You have chosen not to seek Him in your heart. Therefore, you will come with me and seek Him in the hearts of men of good will.

Ebenezer:
Are you the spirit whose coming was foretold to me?

Spirit of Christmas Past:
I am.

Ebenezer:
Who and what are you?

Spirit of Christmas Past:
I am the Ghost of Christmas Past.

Ebenezer:
Long past?

Spirit of Christmas Past:
No, your past.

Ebenezer:
Through the window?

Spirit of Christmas Past:
Are you afraid?

Ebenezer:
But I - I am a mortal, and liable to fall!

Spirit of Christmas Past:
Bear but a touch of my hand, and you shall be upheld in more than this.

Spirit of Christmas Past:
And as your business prospered, Ebenezer Scrooge, a golden idol took possession of your heart, as Alice said it would.

Bob Cratchit:
It's about Mr. Marley. He's dying, sir.

Ebenezer:
Well, what can I do about it. If he's dying, he's dying.

Ebenezer:
I suppose you'll be wanting the whole day off tomorrow as usual.

Bob Cratchit:
If quite convenient, sir.

Ebenezer:
Every Christmas you say the same thing. And every Christmas it's just as inconvenient as the Christmas before. Good night.

Ebenezer:
Bob, I haven't taken leave of my senses. I've come to them.

Ebenezer:
What do you want with me?

Jacob Marley:
Much.

Ebenezer:
You see that toothpick?

Jacob Marley:
I do.

Ebenezer:
You're not looking at it!

Jacob Marley:
But I see it, notwithstanding.

Jacob Marley:
It is required of every man that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellow men! If it goes not forth in life, it is condemned to do so after death! It is doomed to wander through the world! Oh, woe is me! And witness what it cannot share but MIGHT HAVE SHARED on Earth and turned to happiness!

Jacob Marley:
I wear the chain I forged in life! I made it link by link and yard by yard! I gartered it on of my own free will and by my own free will, I wore it!

Jacob Marley:
In life, my spirit never rose beyond the limits of our money-changing holes! Now I am doomed to wander without rest or peace, incessant torture and remorse!

Ebenezer:
But it was only that you were a good man of business, Jacob!

Jacob Marley:
BUSINESS? Mankind was my business! Their common welfare was my business! And it is at this time of the rolling year that I suffer most!

Jacob Marley:
Look to see me no more. But look here, that you may remember for your own sake what has passed between us!

Ebenezer:
Why do they lament?

Jacob Marley:
They seek to interfere for good in human measures, and have lost their power forever.

Spirit of Christmas Present:
Come in! Come in, and know me better, man!

Spirit of Christmas Present:
You've never seen the like of me before, have you?

Ebenezer:
Never, and I wish the pleasure had been indefinitely postponed.

Ebenezer:
Go, and redeem some other promising young creature, but leave me to keep Christmas in my own way.