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Scrooge asked the spirit what business brought him there. What was the spirit's answer?
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The main reply to this question was "your welfare". But the entire conversation is:
"Are you the Spirit, sir, whose coming was foretold to me?" asked Scrooge.
"I am."
The voice was soft and gentle. Singularly low, as if instead of being so close beside him, it were at a distance.
"Who, and what are you?" Scrooge demanded.
"I am the Ghost of Christmas Past."
"Long Past?" inquired Scrooge: observant of its dwarfish stature.
"No. Your past."
Perhaps, Scrooge could not have told anybody why, if anybody could have asked him; but he had a special desire to see the Spirit in his cap; and begged him to be covered.
"What!" exclaimed the Ghost, "Would you so soon put out, with worldly hands, the light I give? Is it not enough that you are one of those whose passions made this cap, and force me through whole trains of years to wear it low upon my brow!"
Scrooge reverently disclaimed all intention to offend or any knowledge of having willfully bonneted the Spirit at any period of his life. He then made bold to inquire what business brought him there.
"Your welfare," said the Ghost.
Scrooge expressed himself much obliged, but could not help thinking that a night of unbroken rest would have been more conducive to that end. The Spirit must have heard him thinking, for it said immediately:
"Your reclamation, then. Take heed."
It put out its strong hand as it spoke, and clasped him gently by the arm.
"Rise. And walk with me."
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What does the third spirit show Scrooge first?
shows himself in a dark cloak to scare him in order to follow the second spirits orders dummy
What do the spirits say to Scrooge?
Two of the three foretold spirit tel Scrooge quite a lot. In basic its all about changing his miserly cold ways and talking on board the true message of Christmas
What did the first spirit come for in A Christmas Carol?
The first spirit was Scrooge's former business partner Jacob Marley. He came to tell Scrooge that he was wasting his life, that he had a long and grievous chain, and that he was to be visited by three more spirits.To show Ebenezer Scrooge his past.
What are the four spirits who visit Scrooge?
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