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Updated: June 1, 2025

Then she piteously cried, "But O, my darling boy, my darling boy!" Never from the hour when Private Richard Doubledick enlisted at Chatham had the Private, Corporal, Sergeant, Sergeant-Major, Ensign, or Lieutenant breathed his right name, or the name of Mary Marshall, or a word of the story of his life, into any ear except his reclaimer's. That previous scene in his existence was closed.

Charles Dickens - The Seven Poor Travellers