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"Ah, not at all, not at all," they said together. "And I'll not forget it to either of you, you can depend on that. I daresay Matthew'll be a help to me in the shop!..." Thus it was that, unpensioned and in the shadow of disgrace, Uncle Matthew left the service of the National Board of Education.
"When I resolved to leave Paris, they did not deprive me of my title of 'Historian of the King of France, they only took from me my pension. They knew I must travel by post, and that a title was less weighty for the horses than a pension of six thousand livres; so they lightened me of that, and I come unpensioned to your majesty."
And now we reach Freetown proper, which may be called Cathedral-Town or Jail-Town. At a distance the 'Liverpool' or 'London of West Africa, as the lieges wildly entitle it, is not unpicturesque; but the style of beauty is that of a baronial castle on the Rhine with an unpensioned proprietor, ruinous and tumbledown.
But as he had formerly been the favourite of fortune, when dignities were multiplied thick upon him, so his miseries now succeeded with an equal swiftness; he was not only discarded by his majesty, unpensioned, and abandoned, but he lost the favour of the duke of Lancaster, as the influence of his wife's sister with that prince was now much lessened.
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