1 Marley was dead, to begin with.
2 Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail.
3 There is no doubt that Marley was dead.
4 The firm was known as Scrooge and Marley.
5 Scrooge never painted out Old Marley's name.
6 "Mr. Marley has been dead these seven years," Scrooge replied.
7 The mention of Marley's funeral brings me back to the point I started from.
8 There it stood, years afterwards, above the warehouse door: Scrooge and Marley.
9 "Scrooge and Marley's, I believe," said one of the gentlemen, referring to his list.
10 You will, therefore, permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a door-nail.
11 Sometimes people new to the business called Scrooge Scrooge, and sometimes Marley, but he answered to both names.
12 It was not angry or ferocious, but looked at Scrooge as Marley used to look: with ghostly spectacles turned up on its ghostly forehead.
13 Let it also be borne in mind that Scrooge had not bestowed one thought on Marley since his last mention of his seven-years'-dead partner that afternoon.
14 Marley in his pigtail, usual waistcoat, tights, and boots; the tassels on the latter bristling, like his pigtail, and his coat-skirts, and the hair upon his head.
15 If each smooth tile had been a blank at first, with power to shape some picture on its surface from the disjointed fragments of his thoughts, there would have been a copy of old Marley's head on every one.
16 And then let any man explain to me, if he can, how it happened that Scrooge, having his key in the lock of the door, saw in the knocker, without its undergoing any intermediate process of change--not a knocker, but Marley's face.
17 There were Cains and Abels, Pharaoh's daughters, Queens of Sheba, Angelic messengers descending through the air on clouds like feather beds, Abrahams, Belshazzars, Apostles putting off to sea in butter-boats, hundreds of figures to attract his thoughts; and yet that face of Marley, seven years dead, came like the ancient Prophet's rod, and swallowed up the whole.
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