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Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner!' Followed by 'The cold within him froze his old features.Read in Books4Free →
Scrooge's Character Introduction
From A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Dickens's famous catalog of adjectives establishes Scrooge as the archetypal miser, cold inside and out.
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