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It was easier for Tip to bring her to her senses than for her to bring

him to understand that the Father of the Marshalsea would be beside

hi was incoether a fanciful notion He yielded to it in that light only, when

he submitted to her entreaties, backed by those of his uncle and sister

There was no want of precedent for his return; it was accounted for

to the father in the usual way; and the collegians, with a better

comprehension of the pious fraud than Tip, supported it loyally

This was the life, and this the history, of the child of the Marshalsea

at twenty-two With a still surviving attachment to the one miserable

yard and block of houses as her birthplace and holy noith a womanly consciousness that she was

pointed out to every one Since she had begun to work beyond the walls,

she had found it necessary to conceal where she lived, and to coo as secretly as she could, between the free city and the iron gates,