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Murdstone considered the best armour for the legs in that
fight with the world which was now to come off. behold me
so attired, and with my little worldly all before me in a small
trunk, sitting, a lone lorn child (as Mrs. Gummidge might
have said), in the post-chaise that was carrying Mr. Quin-
ion to the London coach at Yarmouth! See, how our house
and church are lessening in the distance; how the grave be-
neath the tree is blotted out by intervening objects; how the
spire points upwards from my old playground no more, and
the sky is empty!

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