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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