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To
this
retreat
Mr
Chuckster
repaired
regularly
every
Sunday
to
spend
the
day
—
usually
beginning
with
breakfast
—
and
here
he
was
the
great
purveyor
of
general
news
and
fashionable
intelligence
.
For
some
years
he
continued
a
deadly
foe
to
Kit
,
protesting
that
he
had
a
better
opinion
of
him
when
he
was
supposed
to
have
stolen
the
five
-
pound
note
,
than
when
he
was
shown
to
be
perfectly
free
of
the
crime
;
inasmuch
as
his
guilt
would
have
had
in
it
something
daring
and
bold
,
whereas
his
innocence
was
but
another
proof
of
a
sneaking
and
crafty
disposition
.
By
slow
degrees
,
however
,
he
was
reconciled
to
him
in
the
end
;
and
even
went
so
far
as
to
honour
him
with
his
patronage
,
as
one
who
had
in
some
measure
reformed
,
and
was
therefore
to
be
forgiven
.
But
he
never
forgot
or
pardoned
that
circumstance
of
the
shilling
;
holding
that
if
he
had
come
back
to
get
another
he
would
have
done
well
enough
,
but
that
his
returning
to
work
out
the
former
gift
was
a
stain
upon
his
moral
character
which
no
penitence
or
contrition
could
ever
wash
away
.
Mr
Swiveller
,
having
always
been
in
some
measure
of
a
philosophic
and
reflective
turn
,
grew
immensely
contemplative
,
at
times
,
in
the
smoking
-
box
,
and
was
accustomed
at
such
periods
to
debate
in
his
own
mind
the
mysterious
question
of
Sophronia
’
s
parentage
.
Sophronia
herself
supposed
she
was
an
orphan
;
but
Mr
Swiveller
,
putting
various
slight
circumstances
together
,
often
thought
Miss
Brass
must
know
better
than
that
;
and
,
having
heard
from
his
wife
of
her
strange
interview
with
Quilp
,
entertained
sundry
misgivings
whether
that
person
,
in
his
lifetime
,
might
not
also
have
been
able
to
solve
the
riddle
,
had
he
chosen
.
These
speculations
,
however
,
gave
him
no
uneasiness
;
for
Sophronia
was
ever
a
most
cheerful
,
affectionate
,
and
provident
wife
to
him
;
and
Dick
(
excepting
for
an
occasional
outbreak
with
Mr
Chuckster
,
which
she
had
the
good
sense
rather
to
encourage
than
oppose
)
was
to
her
an
attached
and
domesticated
husband
.
And
they
played
many
hundred
thousand
games
of
cribbage
together
.
And
let
it
be
added
,
to
Dick
’
s
honour
,
that
,
though
we
have
called
her
Sophronia
,
he
called
her
the
Marchioness
from
first
to
last
;
and
that
upon
every
anniversary
of
the
day
on
which
he
found
her
in
his
sick
room
,
Mr
Chuckster
came
to
dinner
,
and
there
was
great
glorification
.
The
gamblers
,
Isaac
List
and
Jowl
,
with
their
trusty
confederate
Mr
James
Groves
of
unimpeachable
memory
,
pursued
their
course
with
varying
success
,
until
the
failure
of
a
spirited
enterprise
in
the
way
of
their
profession
,
dispersed
them
in
various
directions
,
and
caused
their
career
to
receive
a
sudden
check
from
the
long
and
strong
arm
of
the
law
.
This
defeat
had
its
origin
in
the
untoward
detection
of
a
new
associate
—
young
Frederick
Trent
—
who
thus
became
the
unconscious
instrument
of
their
punishment
and
his
own
.
For
the
young
man
himself
,
he
rioted
abroad
for
a
brief
term
,
living
by
his
wits
—
which
means
by
the
abuse
of
every
faculty
that
worthily
employed
raises
man
above
the
beasts
,
and
so
degraded
,
sinks
him
far
below
them
.
It
was
not
long
before
his
body
was
recognised
by
a
stranger
,
who
chanced
to
visit
that
hospital
in
Paris
where
the
drowned
are
laid
out
to
be
owned
;
despite
the
bruises
and
disfigurements
which
were
said
to
have
been
occasioned
by
some
previous
scuffle
.
But
the
stranger
kept
his
own
counsel
until
he
returned
home
,
and
it
was
never
claimed
or
cared
for
.
The
younger
brother
,
or
the
single
gentleman
,
for
that
designation
is
more
familiar
,
would
have
drawn
the
poor
schoolmaster
from
his
lone
retreat
,
and
made
him
his
companion
and
friend
.
But
the
humble
village
teacher
was
timid
of
venturing
into
the
noisy
world
,
and
had
become
fond
of
his
dwelling
in
the
old
churchyard
.
Calmly
happy
in
his
school
,
and
in
the
spot
,
and
in
the
attachment
of
Her
little
mourner
,
he
pursued
his
quiet
course
in
peace
;
and
was
,
through
the
righteous
gratitude
of
his
friend
—
let
this
brief
mention
suffice
for
that
—
a
POOR
school
-
master
no
more
.
That
friend
—
single
gentleman
,
or
younger
brother
,
which
you
will
—
had
at
his
heart
a
heavy
sorrow
;
but
it
bred
in
him
no
misanthropy
or
monastic
gloom
.
He
went
forth
into
the
world
,
a
lover
of
his
kind
.
For
a
long
,
long
time
,
it
was
his
chief
delight
to
travel
in
the
steps
of
the
old
man
and
the
child
(
so
far
as
he
could
trace
them
from
her
last
narrative
)
,
to
halt
where
they
had
halted
,
sympathise
where
they
had
suffered
,
and
rejoice
where
they
had
been
made
glad
.
Those
who
had
been
kind
to
them
,
did
not
escape
his
search
.
The
sisters
at
the
school
—
they
who
were
her
friends
,
because
themselves
so
friendless
—
Mrs
Jarley
of
the
wax
-
work
,
Codlin
,
Short
—
he
found
them
all
;
and
trust
me
,
the
man
who
fed
the
furnace
fire
was
not
forgotten
.
Kit
’
s
story
having
got
abroad
,
raised
him
up
a
host
of
friends
,
and
many
offers
of
provision
for
his
future
life
.
He
had
no
idea
at
first
of
ever
quitting
Mr
Garland
’
s
service
;
but
,
after
serious
remonstrance
and
advice
from
that
gentleman
,
began
to
contemplate
the
possibility
of
such
a
change
being
brought
about
in
time
.
A
good
post
was
procured
for
him
,
with
a
rapidity
which
took
away
his
breath
,
by
some
of
the
gentlemen
who
had
believed
him
guilty
of
the
offence
laid
to
his
charge
,
and
who
had
acted
upon
that
belief
.
Through
the
same
kind
agency
,
his
mother
was
secured
from
want
,
and
made
quite
happy
.
Thus
,
as
Kit
often
said
,
his
great
misfortune
turned
out
to
be
the
source
of
all
his
subsequent
prosperity
.
Did
Kit
live
a
single
man
all
his
days
,
or
did
he
marry
?
Of
course
he
married
,
and
who
should
be
his
wife
but
Barbara
?
And
the
best
of
it
was
,
he
married
so
soon
that
little
Jacob
was
an
uncle
,
before
the
calves
of
his
legs
,
already
mentioned
in
this
history
,
had
ever
been
encased
in
broadcloth
pantaloons
,
—
though
that
was
not
quite
the
best
either
,
for
of
necessity
the
baby
was
an
uncle
too
.
