He also tells him how his mother was forced to break bonds with her true love, and married an old miser instead.

The story is about an old miser who has fallen in love with his son's sweetheart and wants to marry her.

It was never called self-denial in the old miser that he lived on bones.

So why should a man more used to glamorous roles want to play a mean old miser?

Then the old miser is no longer due on the Tuesday?

Christmas Carol has a certain old miser in it.

I guess that crazy old miser must have burned everything.

Oh, how I should like to get my claws into her, the miserable old miser!

Do you suppose that man is a mean old miser?

The debtor proved to be an old miser, who lived at the other end of the village.