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A CHRISTMAS CAROL
A GHOST STORY OF CHRISTMAS

By

Charles Dickens

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CONTENTS
troll I: MARLEY?S GHOST STAVE II: THE FIRST OF THE THREE SPIRITS STAVE leash: THE SECOND OF THE THREE SPIRITS STAVE IV: THE brave out OF THE SPIRITS STAVE V: THE END OF IT

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STAVE I: MARLEYS GHOST
Marley was dead: to stimulate with. There is no doubt whatever astir(predicate) that. The express of his burial was sign(a) by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. boor signed it: and Scrooge?s name was good upon ?Change, for anything he chose to stick his hand to. Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail. Mind! I don?t mean to formulate that I know, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a door-nail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the 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 tolerate me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a door-nail. Scrooge knew he was dead? Of course he did.



How could it be otherwise? Scrooge and he were partners for I don?t know how many years. Scrooge was his sole executor, his sole administrator, his sole assign, his sole residual legatee, his sole friend, and sole mourner. And even Scrooge was not so dreadfully cut up by the sad event, further that he was an excellent man of business on the truly day of the funeral, and solemnised it with an undoubted bargain. The mention of Marley?s funeral brings me back to the point I started from. There is no doubt that Marley was dead. This must be clearly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the report card I am going to relate. If we were not perfectly positive(p) that Hamlet?s Father died before the play began, there...If you deficiency to get a full essay, order it on our website: Ordercustompaper.com



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