Much good it has ever done you ! '' `` There are many things from which I might have derived good , by which I have not profited , I dare say , '' returned the nephew ; `` Christmas among the rest . But I am sure I have always thought of Christmas-time , when it has come round -- apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin , if anything belonging to it can be apart from that -- as a good time ; a kind , forgiving , charitable , pleasant time ; the only time I know of , in the long calendar of the year , when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely , and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave , and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys . And therefore , uncle , though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket , I believe that it has done me good , and will do me good ; and I say , God bless it ! '' The clerk in the tank involuntarily applauded . Becoming immediately sensible of the impropriety , he poked the fire , and extinguished the last frail spark for ever . `` Let me hear another sound from you , '' said Scrooge , `` and you 'll keep your Christmas by losing your situation ! You 're quite a powerful speaker , sir , '' he added , turning to his nephew . `` I wonder you do n't go into Parliament . '' `` Do n't be angry , uncle . Come ! Dine with us to-morrow . '' Scrooge said that he would see him -- Yes , indeed he did . He went the whole length of the expression , and said that he would see him in that extremity first . `` But why ? '' cried Scrooge 's nephew . `` Why ? '' `` Why did you get married ? '' said Scrooge . `` Because I fell in love . ''
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