《Book 1 of The Christmas Stories_ A Christmas Carol 》作者：- Charles Dicken

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A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens is part of the Pennsylvania State UniversityElectronic Classics Series Jim Manis Faculty Editor. Neither the Pennsylvania StateUniversity Jim Manis anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University nor SonyConnect Inc. or its affiliates assumes any responsibility for the material contained within thedocument or for the file as an electronic transmission in any way. Copyright ?? 2007 Sony Connect Inc. All rights reserved.Copyright ?? 1998 The Pennsylvania StateUniversity for the source electronic book file version.ISBN 978-1-4340-0056-9 A CHRISTMAS CAROL by Charles Dickens I have endeavoured in this Ghostly little book to raise the Ghost of an Idea which shall notput my readers out of humour with themselves with each other with the season or with me. Mayit haunt their houses pleasantly and no one wish to lay it.Their faithful Friend andServantC. D.December 1843. Stave 1: Marleys Ghost Marley was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of hisburial was signed by the clergyman the clerk the undertaker and the chief mourner. Scroogesigned it. And Scrooges name was good upon Change for anything he chose to put his handto.Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail.Mind I dont mean to say that I know of my ownknowledge what there is particularly dead about a door-nail. I might have been inclinedmyself to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But thewisdom of our ancestors is in the simile and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it or theCountrys done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat emphatically that Marley was asdead as a door-nail.Scrooge knew he was dead Of course he did. How could it be otherwiseScrooge and he were partners for I dont know how many years. Scrooge was his sole executorhis sole administrator his sole assign his sole residuary legatee his sole friend and solemourner. And even Scrooge was not so dreadfully cut up by