Strophe
1 1| I~ ~Marley was dead: to begin with. There is
2 1| hand to. Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail. ~Mind! I
3 1| what there is particularly dead about a door-nail. I might
4 1| emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a door-nail. ~Scrooge
5 1| door-nail. ~Scrooge knew he was dead? Of course he did. How could
6 1| no doubt that Marley was dead. This must be distinctly
7 1| dozen of months presented dead against you? If I could
8 1| Mr Marley has been dead these seven years,'' Scrooge
9 1| mention of his seven-year's dead partner that afternoon.
10 1| face of Marley, seven years dead, came like the ancient Prophet'
11 1| repeated. ~"Seven years dead,'' mused Scrooge. "And travelling
12 1| chain so hideously in the dead silence of the night, that
13 4| either way. I only know he's dead.'' ~"When did he die?''
14 4| things like these? Not a dead man, I suppose.'' ~"No,
15 4| to keep 'em after he was dead, a wicked old screw,'' pursued
16 4| to profit us when he was dead! Ha, ha, ha!'' ~"Spirit!''
17 4| said her husband. "He is dead.'' ~She was a mild and patient
18 4| that was whom we saw lying dead?'' ~The Ghost of Christmas
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