He became as good a friend, as good a master, and as good a man, as the good old city knew, or any other good old city, town, or borough, in the good old world. He did it all, and infinitely more and to Tiny Tim, who did not die, he was a second father.
Taken from the following passage in Stave 5 ( The End Of It) of A Christmas Carol: This, and several other visions, lead Scrooge to reform his ways. The Ghost first states that ‘ If these shadows remain unaltered by the Future, the child will die,’ then – quick to use Scrooge’s past unkind comments toward two charitable solicitors against him – suggests he ‘ had better do it, and decrease the surplus population‘.
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