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Little Dorrit

CHAPTER 2 Fellow Travellers
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It sent the most insurrectionary tune into the world that was ever composed.

It couldn't exist without allonging and marshonging to something or other--victory or death, or blazes, or something.' The speaker, with a whimsical good humour upon him all the time, looked over the parapet-wall with the greatest disparagement of Marseilles; and taking up a determined position by putting his hands in his pockets and rattling his money at it, apostrophised it with a short laugh.
'Allong and marshong, indeed.

It would be more creditable to you, I think, to let other people allong and marshong about their lawful business, instead of shutting 'em up in quarantine!' 'Tiresome enough,' said the other.

'But we shall be out to-day.' 'Out to-day!' repeated the first.

'It's almost an aggravation of the enormity, that we shall be out to-day.


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