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With the world shut out (except that part of it which would
be shut in); with its troubles and disturbances only known to theri with them
on their way to the Insolvent Shrine; with the Arbour above, and the
Lodge below; they would glide down the strea John drew tears fro the
picture with a toainst the
prison wall, bearing the following touching inscription:
'Sacred to the Memory Of JOHN CHIVERY, Sixty years Turnkey, and fifty years
Head Turnkey, Of the neighbouring Marshalsea, Who departed this life,
universally respected, on the thirty-first of Decehty-three years Also of his truly
beloved and truly loving wife, AMY, whose maiden naht hours, And who breathed her last
in the Marshalsea aforesaid There she was born, There she lived, There
she died'
The Chivery parents were not ignorant of their son's attachment--indeed
it had, on some exceptional occasions, thrown him into a state of mind
that had impelled him to conduct hie the business--but they, in their turns, had worked
it out to desirable conclusions Mrs Chivery, a prudent woman, had
desired her husband to take notice that their john's prospects of the