 the removal of such of the family
effects as were considered worth removing, followed, bearing bundles and burdens
to be packed in a cart.
    In the yard, were the Collegians and turnkeys. In the yard, were Mr. Pancks
and Mr. Rugg, come to see the last touch given to their work. In the yard, was
Young John making a new epitaph for himself, on the occasion of his dying of a
broken heart. In the yard, was the Patriarchal Casby, looking so tremendously
benevolent that many enthusiastic Collegians grasped him fervently by the hand,
and the wives and female relatives of many more Collegians kissed his hand,
nothing doubting that he had done it all. In the yard, was the usual chorus of
people proper to such a place. In the yard, was the man with the shadowy
grievance respecting the Fund which the Marshal embezzled, who had got up at
five in the morning to complete the copying of a perfectly unintelligible
history of that transaction, which he had committed to Mr. Dorrit's care, as a
document of the last importance, calculated to stun the Government and effect
the Marshal's downfall. In the yard, was the insolvent whose utmost energies
were always set on getting into debt, who broke into prison with as much pains
as other men have broken out of it, and who was always being cleared and
complimented; while the insolvent at his elbow - a mere little, snivelling,
striving tradesman, half dead of anxious efforts to keep out of debt - found it
a hard matter, indeed, to get a Commissioner to release him with much reproof
and reproach. In the yard, was the man of many children and many burdens, whose
failure astonished everybody; in the yard, was the man of no children and large
resources, whose failure astonished nobody. There, were the people who were
always going out to-morrow, and always putting it off; there, were the people
who had come in yesterday, and who were much more jealous and resentful of this
freak of fortune than the seasoned birds. There, were some who, in pure meanness
of spirit, cringed and bowed before the enriched Collegian and his family;
there, were others who did so really because their eyes, accustomed to the gloom
of their imprisonment and poverty, could not support the light of such bright
sunshine. There, were many whose shillings had gone into his pocket to buy him
meat and drink; but none who were now obtrusively Hail fellow well met! with
him, on the strength of that assistance. It was rather to
