Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by three ghosts on Christmas Eve.
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STAVE I: MARLEY'S GHOST 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…
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