Strophe

 1   1|      in any other middle-aged gentleman rashly turning out after
 2   1| surviving partner,'' said the gentleman, presenting his credentials. ~
 3   1|        Mr Scrooge,'' said the gentleman, taking up a pen, "it is
 4   1| Plenty of prisons,'' said the gentleman, laying down the pen again. ~"
 5   1|    are. Still,'' returned the gentleman, " I wish I could say they
 6   1|     multitude,'' returned the gentleman, "a few of us are endeavouring
 7   1|       know it,'' observed the gentleman. ~"It's not my business,''
 8   1|        L>God bless you, merry gentleman! <L>May nothing you dismay!
 9   2|  answered that he thanked the gentleman, but if it was the same
10   2|   went in. At sight of an old gentleman in a Welch wig, sitting
11   4|    money?'' asked a red-faced gentleman with a pendulous excrescence
12   4|      provided,'' observed the gentleman with the excrescence on
13   4|     is the pleasantest-spoken gentleman you ever heard, I told him. "
14   5|      him he beheld the portly gentleman, who had walked into his
15   5|   heart to think how this old gentleman would look upon him when
16   5|      pace, and taking the old gentleman by both his hands. "How
17   5|    Lord bless me!'' cried the gentleman, as if his breath were gone. "
18   5|       I will!'' cried the old gentleman. And it was clear he meant