Being A Ghost Story of Christmas
by Charles Dickens
“There are some upon this earth of yours,” returned the Spirit, “who lay claim to know us, and who do their deeds of passion, pride, ill-will, hatred, envy, bigotry, and selfishness in our name, who are as strange to us and all our kith and kin, as if they had never lived.”
Or read chapter by chapter:
Stave II: The First of the Three Spirits
Stave III: The Second of the Three Spirits