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Updated: May 23, 2025
What will you take now, and what at another time, and how am I to be assured of your silence? 'My angel, said Rigaud, 'I have said what I will take, and time presses. Before coming here, I placed copies of the most important of these papers in another hand. Put off the time till the Marshalsea gate shall be shut for the night, and it will be too late to treat. The prisoner will have read them.
There seemed to young John a fitness in the attachment. She, the Child of the Marshalsea; he, the lock-keeper. Every Sunday young John presented cigars to the Father of the Marshalsea who was glad to get them and one particular Sunday afternoon he mustered up courage to urge his suit. Little Dorrit was out, walking on the Iron Bridge, when young John found her.
He patted children on the head like Sir Roger de Coverley going to church, spoke to people in the background by their Christian names, and condescended to all present. At last three honest cheers announced that he had passed the gate, and that the Marshalsea was an orphan. Only when the family had got into their carriage, and not before, Miss Fanny exclaimed, "Good gracious I Where's Amy?"
The old man stopped and looked round, with the expression in his weak grey eyes of one whose thoughts had been far off, and who was a little dull of hearing also. 'Pray, sir, said Arthur, repeating his question, 'what is this place? 'Ay! This place? returned the old man, staying his pinch of snuff on its road, and pointing at the place without looking at it. 'This is the Marshalsea, sir.
Sometimes a rough voice or an evil face would frighten him, and he would take to his heels and run as fast as he could. When he passed the house where he had asked for Mr. Fagin he chuckled to himself; he would not have had his friend know for worlds that his family's home was the Marshalsea Prison.
Here it seemed to Little Dorrit that a change came over the Marshalsea spirit of their society, and that Prunes and Prism got the upper hand. Everybody was walking about St Peter's and the Vatican on somebody else's cork legs, and straining every visible object through somebody else's sieve.
If I am ever a little provoking, I am sure you'll consider what a thing it is to occupy my position and feel a consciousness of being superior to it. I shouldn't care, said the Daughter of the Father of the Marshalsea, 'if the others were not so common. None of them have come down in the world as we have. They are all on their own level. Common.
And through getting acquainted with him, you see why I got acquainted with her, said Plornish tautologically. 'I see. 'Ah! And there's manners! There's polish! There's a gentleman to have run to seed in the Marshalsea jail!
'It is a holiday with him, and he comes to see his old friends, who are always glad to see him, observed the Father of the Marshalsea. By this time Maggy, quietly assisted by her Little Mother, had spread the board, and the repast was ready. It being hot weather and the prison very close, the window was as wide open as it could be pushed.
With the fourth "eglogue" the caged bird begins to sing like a lark at Heaven's gate, and it is the prisoned man who ought to be in doleful dumps that rallies his free friend Browne on his low spirits. It is time, he says, to be merry: What summer thoughts are these to come from a pale prisoner in the hot and putrid Marshalsea!
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