Ebenezer Scrooge
Scrooge is a moneylender, and business partner of Jacob Marley.
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He deals with everyone from creditors to his put-upon clerk Bob Cratchit with an absolute lack of mercy.
About Ned Dennehy
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Dickens's description of Scrooge
A Christmas Carol gives us the character whose name is now a recognised word for hard-hearted miserliness.
"Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner! Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster. The cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, shrivelled his cheek, stiffened his gait; made his eyes red, his thin lips blue; and spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice. A frosty rime was on his head, and on his eyebrows, and his wiry chin. He carried his own low temperature always about with him; he iced his office in the dog-days; and didn't thaw it one degree at Christmas."
Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol, stave one.
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