Scrooge always used to eat his dinner alone

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Scrooge always used to eat his dinner alone，in the same miserable little eating-house．Tonight was no different from other nights．He read the newspapers，looked at his bank books， and went home to bed．He lived in rooms which had once belonged to his dead partner．They were in an old，dark building in a lonely side street，where no oneTile Bladeexcept Scrooge lived．

In the blackness of the night，through the fog and the frost， Scrooge had to feel his way along the street with his hands．He finally reached his front door and put the key in the lock．Suddenly，to his great surprise，he saw that the knocker was not a knocker any more，but had become the face of Jacob Marley！

He had not thought of his partner for seven years，until that afternoon，when he spoke Marley's name to his visitors．But there inTile Bladefront of himDiamond bladewas Marley's face，white and ghostly， with terrible staring eyes．