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 A frosty rime was on his head, and on his eyebrows, and his wiry chin.
6 And Scrooge's name was good upon 'Change for anything he chose to put his hand to.'
7 You will, therefore, permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a door-nail.
8 The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner.
9 No wind that blew was bitterer than he, no falling snow was more intent upon its purpose, no pelting rain less open to entreaty.
10 Scrooge was his sole executor, his sole administrator, his sole assign, his sole residuary legatee, his sole friend, and sole mourner.
11 To edge his way along the crowded paths of life, warning all human sympathy to keep its distance, was what the knowing ones call "nuts" to Scrooge.
12 To see the dingy cloud come drooping down, obscuring everything, one might have thought that nature lived hard by and was brewing on a large scale.
13 The door of Scrooge's counting-house was open, that he might keep his eye upon his clerk, who in a dismal little cell beyond, a sort of tank, was copying letters.
14 The fog came pouring in at every chink and keyhole, and was so dense without, that, although the court was of the narrowest, the houses opposite were mere phantoms.
15 And even Scrooge was not so dreadfully cut up by the sad event, but that he was an excellent man of business on the very day of the funeral, and solemnised it with an undoubted bargain.
16 The City clocks had only just gone three, but it was quite dark already--it had not been light all day--and candles were flaring in the windows of the neighbouring offices, like ruddy smears upon the palpable brown air.
17 It was cold, bleak, biting weather: foggy withal: and he could hear the people in the court outside go wheezing up and down, beating their hands upon their breasts, and stamping their feet upon the pavement stones to warm them.
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