STAVE OXE
MARLEY’S GHOST
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 Scrooge’s name was good upon
‘Change, for anything he chose to put his hand to.
Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail.
Mind ! I don’t mean to say that I know, of
my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead
about a door-nail. 1 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 permit me to repeat
emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a doornail
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