It starts with the narrator saying "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 door-nail."
The story A Christmas Carol begins on Christmas Eve.
The explaination that Marley is truly dead.
Marley was dead: to begin with. there is no doubt whatever about that. The register..................
driving home for Christmas
Christmas carols that begin with the letter A:Angels We Have Heard On HighAway in a Manger
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FAIRYTALE OF NEW YORK
· Kling Glockchen ("Ring Little Bell") is a German Christmas Carol
Silent night holy night
Hark the Herald Angels Sing
With "Marley was dead, to begin with"
"A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens begins with the line "Marley was dead, to begin with." This classic novella follows the transformation of Ebenezer Scrooge after he is visited by the ghost of his former business partner, Jacob Marley, on Christmas Eve.