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Chapter 15. No just Cause or Impediment why these Two Persons

           But,thoughtheCourierhadgoneonwiththeBride,theValetwasnextintheline;andthesuccessionwouldnothavecometoher,aslongasanyonecouldbegotformoney.

           MrsGeneraltooklifeeasily—aseasily,thatis,asshecouldtakeanything—whentheRomanestablishmentremainedintheirsoleoccupation;andLittleDorritwouldoftenrideoutinahiredcarriagethatwasleftthem,andalightaloneandwanderamongtheruinsofoldRome.TheruinsofthevastoldAmphitheatre,oftheoldTemples,oftheoldcommemorativeArches,oftheoldtroddenhighways,oftheoldtombs,besidesbeingwhattheywere,toherwereruinsoftheoldMarshalsea—ruinsofherownoldlife—ruinsofthefacesandformsthatofoldpeopledit—ruinsofitsloves,hopes,cares,andjoys.Tworuinedspheresofactionandsufferingwerebeforethesolitarygirloftensittingonsomebrokenfragment;andinthelonelyplaces,underthebluesky,shesawthembothtogether.

           Up,then,wouldcomeMrsGeneral;takingallthecolouroutofeverything,asNatureandArthadtakenitoutofherself;writingPrunesandPrism,inMrEustace’stext,wherevershecouldlayahand;lookingeverywhereforMrEustaceandcompany,andseeingnothingelse;scratchingupthedriestlittlebonesofantiquity,andboltingthemwholewithoutanyhumanvisitings—likeaGhouleingloves.

           

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