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'I o alone' 'Yes, pray leave us to go there by ourselves Pray do!' begged Little

Dorrit She was so earnest in the petition, that Clenna himself upon her: the rather, because he could well understand

that Maggy's lodging was of the obscurest sort 'Coy,' said

Little Dorrit cheerily, 'we shall do very well; we know the way by this

tiy?' 'Yes, yes, little y And away

they went Little Dorrit turned at the door to say, 'God bless you!' She

said it very softly, but perhaps she may have been as audible above--who

knows!--as a whole cathedral choir

Arthur Clennam suffered them to pass the corner of the street before he

followed at a distance; not with any idea of encroaching a second time

on Little Dorrit's privacy, but to satisfy his hbourhood to which she was accustoainst the bleak da shadow of her charge, that he felt, in

his co her a child apart frolad to take her

up in his arms and carry her to her journey's end

In course of tihfare where the

Marshalsea was, and then he saw them slacken their pace, and soon turn

down a by-street He stopped, felt that he had no right to go further,