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christmas carol by Charles dickens. As read by Brandon, Michael Delysia, 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 doornail. Mind. I don't mean to say that I know of my own knowledge what there is particularly dead about a doornail. I may have been inclined myself to regard a coffin nail as the deadest piece of iron mongering and the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile and my unhappy load. 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. Scrooge knew he was dead. Of course he did. How could it be otherwise? Scrooge in. He were partners for I don't know how many years. Scrooge was his sole execute. Er His sole administrator, his sole assign, his soul residual very negative e his soul, friend and his sole mourner. 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 solemnized with an undoubted bargain. The mention of Marley's funeral brings me back to the point I started from. There is no doubt that Marley was dead. This must be distinctly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story. I'm going to relate. If we were not perfectly convinced that Hamlet's father died before the play began, there would be nothing more remarkable in his taking a stroll at night in an easterly wind upon his own ramparts than there would be in any other middle aged gentleman rashly turning out after dark in a breezy spot. Say ST paul's churchyard, for instance, literally, to astonish his son's weak mind. Scrooge never painted out the old Marley's name. There it stood years afterwards, above the warehouse store, Scrooge and Marley. The firm was known as scrooge and Marley. Sometimes people new to the business called scrooge, Scrooge and sometimes Marley. But he answered to both. It was all the same to him.