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The brothers Williae-yard--of course on the aristocratic or Pump side, for the Father

his children

on the Poor side, except on Sunday s, Christmas Days, and other

occasions of ceremony, in the observance whereof he was very punctual,

and at which times he laid his hand upon the heads of their infants,

and blessed those young insolvents with a benignity that was highly

edifying--the brothers, walking up and down the College-yard together,

were a ht Frederick the free, was so humbled, bowed,

withered, and faded; Willia,

and benevolently conscious of a position; that in this regard only, if

in no other, the brothers were a spectacle to wonder at

They walked up and down the yard on the evening of Little Dorrit's

Sunday intervieith her lover on the Iron Bridge The cares of state

were over for that day, the Drawing Room had been well attended, several

new presentations had taken place, the three-and-sixpence accidentally

left on the table had accidentally increased to twelve shillings, and

the Father of the Marshalsea refreshed hiar As

he walked up and down, affably acco his step to the shuffle of