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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. Excerpt from book: TextA CHRISTMAS CAROL StA-VJS ONE a Marley was dead: to begin withy- .There is no doubt whatever about that. The register' ,tf_-his burial „ he signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertakpof life, the chief mourner. I/Scrooge signed it:cmd«'ince, was name was good upon 'Change, for anything' 'J« put his hand to. Old Marley was as dead as a tiy.ear, on i5 Mind! I don't mean to say that I know, of rny'iuse. knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a textit{AqtjfB nail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard- *J . coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the i0 trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile. and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a doornail. i5 Scrooge knew he was dead? Of course he did. How could it be otherwise? Scrooge and he, - were partners for 1 don't know how many years. Scrooge was his sole executor, his sole administrator, his sole assign, his egatce, his sole friend and sole mourner. 20 And even Scrooge was not so dreadfully cut up by the sad event, but that he was an excellent man of business on the very day of the funeral, and solemnised it with an undoubted bargain. "The mention of Marley's funeral brings me back to the 25 point I started from. There is no doubt that Marley 3i was dead. This must be distinctly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relati If we were not perfectly convinced that Hamlet's Father died before the play began, there would be nothing more remarkable in his taking a stroll at night, in an easterly wind, upon his own ramparts, than there would be in any other middle-aged gentleman rashly turning but after dark in a breezy spot—say Saint Paul's Churchyard fo...