"They were not a handsome family; they were not well dressed; their shoes were far from being water-proof; their cloths were scanty; and Peter might have known, and very likely did, the inside of a pawnbroker's. But, they were happier, grateful, pleased with one another, and contented with the time; and when they faded, and looked happier yet in the  bright sprinklings of the spirit's torch at parting, Scrooge had is eye upon them, and especially Tiny Tim, until the last." -Charles Dickens

I love the Cratchit's.