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how much the bare necessaries that they wanted would cost, and how much less they had to buy them with.
She had been, by snatches of a few weeks at a time, to an evening school outside, and got her sister and brother
sent to day-schools by desultory starts, [??????] during three or four years. There was no instruction for any of them
at home; but she knew well—no one better—that a [?????] man so [??????????] broken as to be the Father of the Marshalsea,
[??????? and ??? father remain the] could be no father of to his own children.

To this Besides these means scanty means of education improvement, she added another resource of her own
contriving. There came [???] to the prison, as a Collegian [???] Instructor Once, among the heterogeneous crowd of collegians
inmates, there appeared a Dancing Master. Her sister had a great desire to learn the Dancing-Master’s
art, and seemed to have a taste that way. At thirteen years old, the Child of the Marshalsea When the dancing-master had [???] them [??? ???]
presented herself to the Dancing-Master, with a little bag in her hand, and preferred her humble petition. [??? sister's behalf.]

“If you please, I was born here, sir.” if you please if you please."

Really, my dear “Oh! You are the young lady, are you?” said the dancing-master, surveying the small figure and uplifted face.

“Yes, sir.”

“And what can I do for you?” said the dancing-master.

“Nothing for me, sir, thank you,” anxiously undrawing [?? ????] the strings of the little bag; “but if, while you stay here, you could be so kind as to teach
my sister cheap—”

“My child, I’ll teach her for nothing,” said the dancing-master, shutting up the bag [???] again shutting up the bag.
He was as good-natured a dancing-master as ever danced to the Insolvent Court, and he kept his word. The sister was so apt a
pupil, and the dancing-master had such abundant leisure to bestow upon her (for it took him a matter
of ten weeks to go round the middle set to his creditors, lead off, turn the Commissioners, and move off again, and [??? the ???] right and left
back to his professional pursuits), that he made [amazing?] wonderful progress was made. The college indeed Indeed the
dancing-master was so proud of it, and so wishful to display it before he left to a few select among friends among
the collegians, that at six o’clock on a certain summer fine morning, an appointment was made a minuet de la cour came off in the yard—the
college-rooms being of too confined proportions for the purpose—in which the dancing-master completely so much ground
[???] was taken, covered and the steps were so conscientiously executed, that the dancing-master, having to
play the kit besides, was [???] thoroughly blown.

The success of this beginning, which did not [????] the worth led to the dancing-master’s continuing his instruction
[??????] after his release, emboldened the poor child to try again. She watched and waited
months for a seamstress. At last In the fulness of time a milliner was reported to have come in came in, and
to her she repaired on her own behalf.

“I beg your pardon, ma’am,” she said, looking timidly round the door of the milliner, whom she found in tears and in bed: “but
I was born here.”

Everybody seemed to hear of her as the [????] of their [?????] as soon as they arrived; for the milliner sat up in bed, drying her eyes, and said, just as the dancing-master had said:

“Oh! You are the child, are you?”

“Yes, ma’am.”

“I am sorry I haven’t got anything for you,” said the milliner, shaking her head.

“It’s not that, ma’am. If you please I want to learn needle-work.” work if you would

Why should you do that “Why should you do that,” returned the milliner, “with me before you? It has not done me much good.”

[???] please “Nothing—whatever it is—seems to have done anybody much good who comes here,” she