بریده‌هایی از کتاب A Christmas Carol

Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it.

'You are fettered,' said Scrooge, trembling. 'Tell me why?' 'I wear the chain I forged in life,' replied the Ghost. 'I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it. Is its pattern strange to you?'

Every one of them wore chains like Marley's Ghost; some few (they might be guilty governments) were linked together; none were free.