“‘But you were always a good man of business, Jacob,’ faltered Scrooge, who now began to apply this…”
Tuesday, December 22nd, 2015“‘But you were always a good man of business, Jacob,’ faltered Scrooge, who now began to apply this to himself.
‘Business!’ cried the Ghost, wringing its hands again. ‘Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business. The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!’”
– A Christmas Carol, of course; this is Dickens on a roll. Check out the rhythm of that last sentence, how it marshals the whole speech toward certainty. (via velogiraffe)
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