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The Marshalsea walls, during a portion of every day, again embraced her in their shadows as their child, while she thought for Clennam, worked for him, watched him, and only left him, still to devote her utmost love and care to him. Her part in the life outside the gate urged its pressing claims upon her too, and her patience untiringly responded to them.
Pancks, in "Little Dorrit," so far abandons the ordinary ways of mature rent collectors as to ask a respectable old accountant to "give him a back," in the Marshalsea court, and leaps over his head, we are obviously in a world of pantomime. Dickens' comic effects are generally quite forced enough, and should never be further forced when translated into the sister art of drawing.
Mr Dorrit's satisfaction in remembering that it had not been necessary for him to announce himself to Clennam and Co., or to make an allusion to his having had any knowledge of the intrusive person of that name, had been damped over-night, while it was still fresh, by a debate that arose within him whether or no he should take the Marshalsea in his way back, and look at the old gate.
'I tell you, child, he said petulantly, 'I can't be got up the narrow stairs without Bob. Ha. Send for Bob. Hum. Send for Bob best of all the turnkeys send for Bob! He looked confusedly about him, and, becoming conscious of the number of faces by which he was surrounded, addressed them: 'Ladies and gentlemen, the duty ha devolves upon me of hum welcoming you to the Marshalsea!
To the poor prisoners of Newgate, Ludgate, King's Bench, and Marshalsea, to be equally distributed amongst them, £10. Willing, charging, and desiring mine executors underwritten, that they shall see this my will performed in every point according to my true meaning and intent as they will answer to God, and discharge their consciences.
I am arrested carried to the Marshalsea find my old Acquaintance beau Jackson in that Jail he informs me of his Adventures Strap arrives, and with difficulty is comforted Jackson introduces me to a Poet I admire his Conversation and Capacity am deeply affected with my Misfortune Strap hires himself as a Journeyman Barber
I hope to see the day, when not Southwark alone, but London itself shall become one Mint, when all men shall be debtors, and none creditors, when imprisonment for debt shall be utterly abolished, when highway-robbery shall be accounted a pleasant pastime, and forgery an accomplishment, when Tyburn and its gibbets shall be overthrown, capital punishments discontinued, Newgate, Ludgate, the Gatehouse, and the Compters razed to the ground, Bridewell and Clerkenwell destroyed, the Fleet, the King's Bench, and the Marshalsea remembered only by name!
I was not much shocked at this adventure, which, indeed, put an end to a state of horrible expectation: but I refused to go to a sponging-house, where I heard there was nothing but the most flagrant imposition: and, a coach being called, was carried to the Marshalsea, attended by a bailiff and his follower, who were very much disappointed and chagrined at my resolution.
Such a judgment is absurd, It overlooks the grave beauty of the picture of Chesney Wold in Bleak House; the splendid harmony of the Yarmouth storm in "Copperfield"; the fine melodrama of the chapter in "Chuzzlewit" where the guilty Jonas takes his haggard life; the magnificent portraiture of the Father of the Marshalsea in "Little Dorrit": the spiritual exaltation in vivid stage terms of Carton's death; the exquisite April-day blend of tenderness and fun in limning the young life of a Marchioness, a little Dombey and a tiny Tim.
The Greyhound arrived in the river the 25th of March, and the next day came to an anchor at Woolwich; and the pirates being put into boats appointed to receive them, with a strong guard to attend them, were brought on shore on the 30th, and conveyed to the Marshalsea prison in Southwark, where they were delivered to the keepers of the said prison, and were laid in irons.
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