Scrooge Is It Not My Business?

Scrooge says he can't afford to make idle people merry at Christmas. Scrooge plenty of prisons said the gentleman laying down the pen again and the union work houses demanded Scrooge are they still in operation? A few pages on from this scene in talking with Marley's ghost Scrooge says but you were always a good man of business Jacob business cried the ghost ringing its hands mankind was my business the common welfare was my business charity mercy forbearance and benevolence were all my business.