Jacob Marley

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The ghost of Jacob Marley (right) paying a visit to his former business partner, Ebenezer Scrooge; illustration by John Leech for Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol (1843).

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The ghost of Jacob Marley (right) paying a visit to his former business partner, Ebenezer Scrooge; illustration by John Leech for Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol (1843).

The ghost of Jacob Marley (right) paying a visit to his former business partner,...

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