A Christmas Carol

mr. Fezziwig. 353 00:37:54,973 --> 00:37:57,073 Oh, very well. 354 00:37:57,142 --> 00:37:59,682 I could always coax him into it. 355 00:37:59,744 --> 00:38:04,784 <i>™�</i> 356 00:38:09,420 --> 00:38:13,560 ™� everyone surely knows ♪ 357 00:38:13,625 --> 00:38:17,865 ™� i want to marry rose ♪ 358 00:38:17,929 --> 00:38:22,699 ™� i am not a one to pose ♪ 359 00:38:22,767 --> 00:38:27,097 <i>™� i want to marry rose ♪</i> 360 00:38:27,172 --> 00:38:30,142 <i>™� but... there’s... her ♪</i> 361 00:38:30,208 --> 00:38:32,578 ™� uncle and her brother her sister and her mother ♪ 362 00:38:32,644 --> 00:38:34,784 ™� yes, her uncle and her brother her sister and her mother ♪ 363 00:38:34,846 --> 00:38:38,616 ™� but rose, rose, rose, i’m not going to marry all of those ♪ 364 00:38:38,683 --> 00:38:43,023 ™� aunties in dozens and fatheaded cousins in rows, rows, rows ♪ 365 00:38:43,087 --> 00:38:46,687 ™� but rose, rose, rose, i’m not going to marry all of those ♪ 366 00:38:46,758 --> 00:38:49,128 ™� aunties in dozens and fatheaded cousins ♪ 367 00:38:49,194 --> 00:38:52,234 ™� in rows, rows rows, rows, rows ♪♪ 368 00:38:52,297 --> 00:38:55,867 "The portsmouth polka"! 369 00:39:46,084 --> 00:39:48,324 <i>™� </i> 370 00:40:23,021 --> 00:40:26,461 "Ebenezer, when happiness shows up, 371 00:40:26,524 --> 00:40:30,934 Always give it a comfortable seat." 372 00:40:30,995 --> 00:40:33,025 <i> True.</i> 373 00:40:33,097 --> 00:40:38,337 Giving people pleasure is such a small matter. 374 00:40:38,403 --> 00:40:42,943 He only spent a few pounds-- Three or four, at best. 375 00:40:43,007 --> 00:40:45,877 Is it so much that he deserves praise for it? 376 00:40:45,944 --> 00:40:48,284 You don’t understand, spirit! 377 00:40:48,346 --> 00:40:52,116 He had the power to make us happy or unhappy, 378 00:40:52,183 --> 00:40:55,493 To make our work heavy or light! 379 00:40:55,553 --> 00:40:58,193 What’s the matter? 380 00:40:58,256 --> 00:41:01,486 Nothing. 381 00:41:01,559 --> 00:41:04,089 Looking back... 382 00:41:04,162 --> 00:41:07,402 Perhaps things seemed better than they really were. 383 00:41:07,465 --> 00:41:11,335 - All this was a lie, then? - The world changes. 384 00:41:11,402 --> 00:41:14,102 You can’t trust anything. 385 00:41:16,074 --> 00:41:20,744 But no, it was just like this, 386 00:41:20,812 --> 00:41:24,822 Right down to the last mince pie and dance. 387 00:41:24,882 --> 00:41:27,352 <i>™�</i> 388 00:41:42,800 --> 00:41:46,670 The years change people. I don’t wish to look, sir. 389 00:41:46,738 --> 00:41:49,008 You must. 390 00:41:51,476 --> 00:41:56,106 There’s nothing the world is so hard on as poverty, belle, 391 00:41:56,180 --> 00:41:59,250 And there’s nothing it professes to condemn... 392 00:41:59,317 --> 00:42:03,747 With such severity as the pursuit of wealth. 393 00:42:05,323 --> 00:42:08,463 You fear the world too much. 394 00:42:10,294 --> 00:42:15,274 All your nobler hopes have merged into the one hope of being rich. 395 00:42:15,333 --> 00:42:19,943 One master passion engulfs you-- Money! 396 00:42:20,004 --> 00:42:22,944 What of it? Even if i’ve grown wiser, 397 00:42:23,007 --> 00:42:26,537 I’ve not changed towards you, have i? 398 00:42:26,611 --> 00:42:29,781 Our promise to marry is an old one. 399 00:42:29,847 --> 00:42:32,777 It was made when we were poor and content to be so... 400 00:42:32,850 --> 00:42:34,990 <i>Until we improved our fortunes.</i> 401 00:42:35,053 --> 00:42:39,363 You <i>are</i> changed. When we promised each other, you were another man. 402 00:42:39,424 --> 00:42:41,394 I was a boy. 403 00:42:41,459 --> 00:42:46,599 How often and how keenly i’ve thought of this i will not say. 404 00:42:46,664 --> 00:42:51,474 But i have thought of it and can release you from your promise. 405 00:42:52,937 --> 00:42:55,637 No! No! 406 00:42:55,706 --> 00:42:58,306 Have i ever asked you to release me? 407 00:42:58,376 --> 00:43:01,106 In words? No, never. 408 00:43:01,179 --> 00:43:04,349 How, then? <i>In your changed nature.</i> 409 00:43:04,415 --> 00:43:07,685 In everything that made me love you. 410 00:43:07,752 --> 00:43:11,322 <i>If this had never been between us, tell me,</i> 411 00:43:11,389 --> 00:43:14,289 Would you seek me out and try to win me now? 412 00:43:19,630 --> 00:43:24,230 Ah, no. 413 00:43:24,302 --> 00:43:27,072 You think not? 414 00:43:27,138 --> 00:43:29,768 I know you wouldn’t, my love. 415 00:43:32,643 --> 00:43:36,853 Speak to her! Why doesn’t he speak to her? 416 00:43:36,914 --> 00:43:40,384 <i>If you were free today, tomorrow, yesterday,</i> 417 00:43:40,451 --> 00:43:43,291 Would you choose a poor girl like me to marry? 418 00:43:43,354 --> 00:43:46,924 <i>You who weigh everything by gain?</i> 419 00:43:46,991 -