ReadOasis Step 5

"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." This is the crooked disposition of one Ebenezer Scroogefrom Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol, that magical story of redemption that begins with a memory. Only a spirit could have startled Scrooge w...