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Manifold are the cares of wealth and state Mr Dorrit's satisfaction in

re that it had not been necessary for him to announce himself

to Clenna had any

knowledge of the intrusive person of that naht, while it was still fresh, by a debate that arose within him

whether or no he should take the Marshalsea in his way back, and look

at the old gate

He had decided not to do so; and had astonished the

coacho over London

Bridge and recross the river by Waterloo Bridge--a course which would

have taken hiht of his old quarters Still, for all

that, the question had raised a conflict in his breast; and, for souely dissatisfied

Even at the Merdle dinner-table next day, he was so out of sorts about it that he

continued at intervals to turn it over and over, in a ood society surrounding him It made him hot to

think what the Chief Butler's opinion of hie could have plumbed with that heavy eye of his the

streaeous nature, and wound up his visit

in a most brilliant manner Fanny combined with the attractions of her

youth and beauty, a certain weight of self-sustainment as if she had

been married twenty years He felt that he could leave her with a