A Coal From The Altar, To Kindle The Holy Fire of Zeale A Christmas Carol &nbspby&nbspCharles Dickens



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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&rsquos name was good upon &rsquoChange, for anything he chose to put his hand to. Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail.

Mind! I don&rsquot mean to say 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&rsquos done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a door-nail.

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