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CHAPTER 7. The Child of the Marshalsea
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The baby whose first draught1 of air had been tinctured with Doctor Haggage’s brandy, was handed down among the generations of collegians, like the tradition of their common parent. In the earlier stages of her existence, she was handed down in a literal and prosaic2 sense; it being almost a part of the entrance footing of every new collegian to nurse the child who had been born in the college.
‘By rights,’ remarked the turnkey when she was first shown to him, ‘I ought to be her godfather.’
The debtor3 irresolutely4 thought of it for a minute, and said, ‘Perhaps you wouldn’t object to really being her godfather?’
‘Oh! I don’t object,’ replied the turnkey, ‘if you don’t.’
Thus it came to pass that she was christened one Sunday afternoon, when the turnkey, being relieved, was off the lock; and that the turnkey went up to the font of Saint George’s Church, and promised and vowed5 and renounced6 on her behalf, as he himself related when he came back, ‘like a good ‘un.’
This invested the turnkey with a new proprietary8 share in the child, over and above his former official one. When she began to walk and talk, he became fond of her; bought a little arm-chair and stood it by the high fender of the lodge9 fire-place; liked to have her company when he was on the lock; and used to bribe10 her with cheap toys to come and talk to him. The child, for her part, soon grew so fond of the turnkey that she would come climbing up the lodge-steps of her own accord at all hours of the day. When she fell asleep in the little armchair by the high fender, the turnkey would cover her with his pocket-handkerchief; and when she sat in it
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gateway
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pointed
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shrimps
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bestow
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morose
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goodwill
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inevitable
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retired
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calamity
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fixture
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guardian
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legacy
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