asked Scrooge . `` Because it needs it most . '' `` Spirit ! '' said Scrooge after a moment 's thought . `` I wonder you , of all the beings in the many worlds about us , should desire to cramp these people 's opportunities of innocent enjoyment . '' `` I ! '' cried the Spirit . `` You would deprive them of their means of dining every seventh day , often the only day on which they can be said to dine at all , '' said Scrooge ; `` would n't you ? '' `` I ! '' cried the Spirit . `` You seek to close these places on the Seventh Day , '' said Scrooge . `` And it comes to the same thing . '' '' I seek ! '' exclaimed the Spirit . `` Forgive me if I am wrong . It has been done in your name , or at least in that of your family , '' said Scrooge . `` There are some upon this earth of yours , '' returned the Spirit , `` who lay claim to know us , and who do their deeds of passion , pride , ill-will , hatred , envy , bigotry , and selfishness in our name , who are as strange to us , and all our kith and kin , as if they had never lived . Remember that , and charge their doings on themselves , not us . '' Scrooge promised that he would ; and they went on , invisible , as they had been before , into the suburbs of the town . It was a remarkable quality of the Ghost -LRB- which Scrooge had observed at the baker 's -RRB- , that , notwithstanding his gigantic size , he could accommodate himself to any place with ease ; and that he stood beneath a low roof quite as gracefully and like a supernatural creature as it was possible he could have done in any lofty hall .
And perhaps it was the pleasure the good Spirit had in showing off this power of his , or else it was his own kind , generous , hearty nature , and his sympathy with all poor men , that led him straight XXXXX Scrooge 's clerk 's ; for there he went , and took Scrooge with him , holding to his robe ; and , on the threshold of the door , the Spirit smiled , and stopped to bless Bob Cratchit 's dwelling with the sprinklings of his torch .
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