A Christmas Carol Page #6

Ebbie, dear Ebbie.

I've come to bring you home.

Home, Fran? Home?

Father is so much kinder

than he used to be...

that home is like heaven.

That's why I asked him if you

could come home, and he said, "Yes."

And he sent me to fetch you with a coach.

And, Ebbie, Father says

that you're going to go to work...

and never come back here.

And we're going to have a turkey

and chestnuts and everything.

God bless you, Fran.

Ebbie, it's going to be so glorious.

God bless you.

- She loved you.

- She did.

I believe she had children before she died.

- One child.

- Your nephew, Fred.

Come.

You remember this place?

Fezziwig's warehouse.

I was apprenticed here.

It's old Fezziwig.

It's old Fezziwig alive again.

Ebenezer, Dick!

Yes, sir?

Ebenezer Scrooge, Dick Wilkins.

Yes, sir?

Do you observe the time, sir?

7:
05, sir.

Do you know you've let me work you

five minutes overtime?

No more work tonight.

Christmas Eve, Dick. Christmas, Ebenezer.

Up with the shutters. Close up shop.

In the eye, Dick. Cheer up, Ebenezer.

What a lark.

He always comes through, doesn't he?

- Always comes through does old Fezziwig.

- And royally, too.

And royally, too.

Nothing's too good for Fezziwig.

Closed up tight, sirs?

- Tight as a barrel, sir.

- Good.

Now, about tomorrow.

It's a holiday, of course.

But I shall expect you to spend part of it,

at least, with me...

eating Christmas dinner.

Thank you, sir.

And as probably you'll eat too much

to be any good next day...

we'll make that a holiday, too.

Good night, Ebenezer. Good night, Dick.

Good night, sir. And thank you, sir.

Yes, sir. Thank you, sir.

- A sovereign.

- A whole sovereign.

- Solid gold is old Fezziwig.

- Solid gold, through and through.

What is the matter?

Nothing particular.

Something, I think.

Yes, there is.

Old Fezziwig was very kind to me.

Yes, he was. But he's dead now.

Perhaps you feel

you'd like to repay his kindness to you.

Well?

You have a clerk, Bob Cratchit.

Old Fezziwig would have been

very happy...

if you had shown your gratitude to him

by showing kindness to others.

Your clerk, for instance.

Business is business.

I'm a good businessman!

My time grows short.

I have yet to show you the black years

of your life.

Your gradual enslavement to greed.

- Your ruthlessness.

- No!

Your ingratitude.

Your wretched thirst for gold.

No, leave me. I can't stand more.

I can't stand more!

Come here.

Come here and know me better, Scrooge.

I am the Ghost of Christmas Present.

Have you never seen the like of me before?

Never.

And have you never known my elder

brothers, born these years before me?

I'm afraid I haven't.

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