Chapter 2
Marley's Ghost Warns of Three Spirits
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1 Scrooge's gloomy old house sits at the end of a dark yard on a freezing Christmas Eve
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2 With Scrooge's key in the lock, the knocker becomes Marley's dimly glowing face
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3 Marley's Ghost walks through Scrooge's locked oak door, dragging his chain of cash-boxes
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4 Marley's Ghost unbinds the kerchief from its head, and its lower jaw drops down upon its breast.
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5 Scrooge kneels on the hearth rug with clasped hands, begging the Ghost for mercy
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6 The Ghost's glowing hands hold his chain: padlock, key, steel purse, iron-bound ledger
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7 Marley's Ghost wrings his hands above his dropped jaw and cries out that mankind was his business.
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8 Marley's ghost bends over the kneeling Scrooge and raises three glowing fingers
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9 Marley's Ghost drifts backward through the open window into the black night
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10 From his lit window, Scrooge sees a night sky full of chained, moaning phantoms
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11 A ghost chained to an iron safe weeps and reaches toward a poor woman and her infant
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