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steps of the portico, looking at the fresh perspective of the street in

the autumn morning sun's bright rays, and then went down.

Went down into a modest life of usefulness and happiness. Went down

to give a mother's care, in the fulness of time, to Fanny's neglected

children no less than to their own, and to leave that lady going into

Society for ever and a day. Went down to give a tender nurse and friend

to Tip for some few years, who was never vexed by the great exactions he

made of her in return for the riches he might have given her if he had

ever had them, and who lovingly closed his eyes upon the Marshalsea

and all its blighted fruits. They went quietly down into the roaring

streets, inseparable and blessed; and as they passed along in sunshine

and shade, the noisy and the eager, and the arrogant and the froward and

the vain, fretted and chafed, and made their usual uproar.

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