said Scrooge , caustic and cold as ever . `` What do you want with me ? '' `` Much ! '' -- Marley 's voice , no doubt about it . `` Who are you ? '' `` Ask me who I was . '' `` Who were you , then ? '' said Scrooge , raising his voice . `` You 're particular , for a shade . '' He was going to say '' to a shade , '' but substituted this , as more appropriate . `` In life I was your partner , Jacob Marley . '' `` Can you -- can you sit down ? '' asked Scrooge , looking doubtfully at him . `` I can . '' `` Do it , then . '' Scrooge asked the question , because he did n't know whether a ghost so transparent might find himself in a condition to take a chair ; and felt that , in the event of its being impossible , it might involve the necessity of an embarrassing explanation . But the Ghost sat down on the opposite side of the fire-place , as if he were quite used to it . `` You do n't believe in me , '' observed the Ghost . `` I do n't , '' said Scrooge . `` What evidence would you have of my reality beyond that of your own senses ? ''
`` I do n't know , '' said XXXXX .
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