Classic British Literature
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EnglishVoice Age
Middle Aged (35-54)Accents
British (General) British (Received Pronunciation - RP, BBC)Transcript
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It was on a dreary night of November that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils with an anxiety that almost amounted to agony. I collected the instruments of life around me that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet. Molly 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. Screwed signed it, and Scrooge's name was good upon change for anything he chose to put his hand to old Molly was 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 might have been inclined myself to regard a coffin nail as the deadest piece of iron monger in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors in the simile and Mayan hallowed hands shall not disturb it or the country's done vel. You will therefore permit me to repeat empathetically that Molly was as dead as a doornail. He is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. He is the organiser of half that is evil and nearly all that is undetected in this great city. He is a genius or philosopher, an abstract thinker. He has a brain of the first order. He sits motionless like a spider in the centre of its web. But that web has 1000 radiations, and he knows well, every quiver of each of them.