Marley's Ghost

Marley's Ghost
Marley's Ghost
the spirit of Jacob Marley, who is the dead business partner of ↑Scrooge in the book A ↑Christmas Carol (1843) by Charles ↑Dickens. He appears to Scrooge on Christmas Eve, and tells him that he will be visited by three spirits.

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