بریده‌هایی از کتاب A Christmas Carol

Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it.

the more he endeavoured not to think, the more he thought.

Every movable was packed off, as if it were dismissed from public life for evermore; the floor was swept and watered

In they all came, one after another; some shyly, some boldly, some gracefully, some awkwardly, some pushing, some pulling; in they all came, any how and every how.

'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.