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Chapter 18. Little Dorrit’s Lover

           Then,beingallinalltooneanother,therewasevenanappropriategraceinthelock.Withtheworldshutout(exceptthatpartofitwhichwouldbeshutin);withitstroublesanddisturbancesonlyknowntothembyhearsay,astheywouldbedescribedbythepilgrimstarryingwiththemontheirwaytotheInsolventShrine;withtheArbourabove,andtheLodgebelow;theywouldglidedownthestreamoftime,inpastoraldomestichappiness.YoungJohndrewtearsfromhiseyesbyfinishingthepicturewithatombstoneintheadjoiningchurchyard,closeagainsttheprisonwall,bearingthefollowingtouchinginscription:‘SacredtotheMemoryOfJOHNCHIVERY,SixtyyearsTurnkey,andfiftyyearsHeadTurnkey,OftheneighbouringMarshalsea,Whodepartedthislife,universallyrespected,onthethirty-firstofDecember,Onethousandeighthundredandeighty-six,Agedeighty-threeyears.Alsoofhistrulybelovedandtrulylovingwife,AMY,whosemaidennamewasDORRIT,Whosurvivedhislossnotquiteforty-eighthours,AndwhobreathedherlastintheMarshalseaaforesaid.Thereshewasborn,Thereshelived,Thereshedied.’

           TheChiveryparentswerenotignorantoftheirson’sattachment—indeedithad,onsomeexceptionaloccasions,thrownhimintoastateofmindthathadimpelledhimtoconducthimselfwithirascibilitytowardsthecustomers,anddamagethebusiness—butthey,intheirturns,hadworkeditouttodesirableconclusions.

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