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1st World Publishing 1st World Publishing A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens Edited by 1st World Publishing
Purchase one of 1st World Librarys Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. 1st World LibraryLiterary Society is a nonprofit educational organization. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG Marley was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman the clerk the undertaker and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it. And Scrooges name was good upon Change for anything he chose to put his hand to. Old Marley was as dead as a doornail. Mind! I dont mean to say that I know of my own knowledge what there is particularly dead about a doornail. I might have been inclined myself to regard a coffinnail 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 Countrys done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat emphatically that Marley was as dead as a doornail.show more