Can Ebenezer Scrooge become convinced to change his ways?

Charles Dickens, today on the Classic Tales podcast.

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And now, A Christmas Carol, Part four of four by Charles Dickens.

Stave Four, the last of the spirits.

The phantom slowly, gravely, silently approached. When it came near him, Scrooge bent down upon his knee,

for in the very air through which this spirit moved, it seemed to scatter gloom and mystery.

It was shrouded in a deep black garment, which concealed its head, its face, its form,

and left nothing of it visible, save one outstretched hand.

But for this, it would have been difficult to detach its figure from the night,

and separate it from the darkness by which it was surrounded. He felt that it was tall and stately

when it came beside him, and that its mysterious presence filled him with a solemn dread.

He knew no more, for the spirit neither spoke nor moved.

I am, in the presence of the ghost of Christmas yet to come, said Scrooge.

The spirit answered not, but pointed onward with its hand.

You are about to show me the shadows of things that have not happened, but will happen,

in the time before us.

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