![]() Foul weather didn't know where to have him. No wind that blew was bitterer than he, no falling snow was more intent upon its purpose, no pelting rain less open to entreaty. No warmth could warm, no cold could chill him. Oh ! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, was Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner! External heat and cold had little influence on him. Sometimes people new to the business called Scrooge Scrooge, and sometimes Marley. ![]() ![]() The firm was known as Scrooge and Marley. There it yet stood, years afterwards, above the warehouse door, - Scrooge and Marley. Scrooge never painted out old Marley's name, however. Scrooge was his sole executor, his sole administrator, his sole assign, his sole residuary legatee, his sole friend, his sole mourner. How could it be otherwise? Scrooge and he were partners for I don't know how many years. Scrooge knew he was dead? Of course he did. And Scrooge's name was good upon 'Change for anything he chose to put his hand to. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Printer Friendly Version Annotated A Christmas Carol Condensed by Dickens for his public readingsġ- Marley's Ghost | 2- The First of the Three Spirits | 3- The Second of the Three Spirits | 4- The Last of the Spirits Stave One - Marley's Ghost Reading Dickens > A Christmas Carol-Dickens' Reading Text ![]()
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