Strophe

 1   1|       was an excellent man of business on the very day of the funeral,
 2   1|   Sometimes people new to the business called Scrooge Scrooge,
 3   1|      gentleman. ~"It's not my business,'' Scrooge returned. "It'
 4   1|     man to understand his own business, and not to interfere with
 5   1|        where it had so little business to be, that one could scarcely
 6   1|     were always a good man of business, Jacob,'' faultered Scrooge,
 7   1|      apply this to himself. ~"Business!'' cried the Ghost, wringing
 8   1|  hands again. "Mankind was my business. The common welfare was
 9   1|     The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance,
10   1|    benevolence, were, all, my business. The dealings of my trade
11   1|     comprehensive ocean of my business!'' ~It held up its chain
12   2|     made bold to inquire what business brought him there. ~"Your
13   2|   right. I'm glad of it. What business had he to be married to
14   2|   have been a surprise to his business friends in the city, indeed. ~"
15   2|     and women employed in the business. In came the housemaid,
16   2|      sort of man who knew his business better than you or I could
17   3|     of Peter's being a man of business; and Peter himself looked
18   4|     beside one little knot of business men. Observing that the
19   4|   perfectly. They were men of business: very wealthy, and of great
20   4|    well in their esteem: in a business point of view, that is;
21   4|        that is; strictly in a business point of view. ~"How are
22   4| Future -- into the resorts of business men, but showed him not