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“Caught, eh?” said the voice. “You won’t [?get out tonight?] go home till morning. Oh! [?it's?] It’s you, is it, Mr Clennam?”

The voice was Tip’s; and they stood looking at one another in the [?????? ??????] [?????] prison-yard, as it began to rain.

“You’ve done it,” [?said?] observed Tip; “you must be sharper than that next time.”

“But you are locked in too,” said Arthur.

“I believe [you] I am!” [??????????? ??????? ??????] [?was the sarcastic reply?] said Tip, sarcastically. “About! But not in your way. I [?I am one of the ????????????] belong to the shop, only my sister [???????]
has a theory that our governor [?????????] must never know [???] it. I don’t see it why, myself.” [He ????]

[????????????? ???????] [???? what had I better do?] “Can I get any shelter?” said asked Arthur. Can I get any shelter? “What had I better do?”

“We had better get hold of Amy first of all,” said Tip, referring any difficulty to [????] her as a matter of course.

“I would rather walk about all night—it’s not much [????] to do—than give that trouble her.”

“[????] You needn’t [??? ???????] do that, if you don’t mind paying for a bed. If you don’t mind paying,
they’ll make you up one on the Snuggery table, under the circumstances I dare say. If you’ll come along, I’ll
introduce you there.”

As they passed down the [?prison?] yard, Arthur looked up at the window of the room of the room he had lately left, where the light
was still shining burning. “Yes, sir,” said Tip, following his glance. “That’s the governor’s. She’ll sit with [??? ????????] him
for another half hour [and ?????] reading yesterday’s paper to him, or something of that sort; and then
she’ll come out like a little ghost, and [vanish ???????????? ????????] vanish away without a sound.”

[????? ???????? ????] “I don’t understand you.”

“The governor sleeps up there in the room, and she is a lodger has a lodging at the turnkey’s. First house there,” said Tip,
pointing out the doorway into which she had retired. “First house, sky parlour. She pays about twice
as much for it [as she would ????? ????? she was ???? here as ??] as she would for one twice as good outside. But she stands by the governor, poor girl, day and night.”

This brought them to the tavern-establishment at the upper end of the [????] prison, where the [??????????]
collegians had just vacated their social evening club. in the Snuggery were The apartment on the ground
-floor in which [??????] [?that ???? ????] it was held, was the [?????????] Snuggery in question; and the [???????] presidential
tribune of the chairman, [?the collegians and ?????] the pewter-pots, and glasses, pipes, and tobacco-ashes, and general flavour of the members, [??? ?????]
were still as that convivial institution had left them on its [??????] adjournment.
The Snuggery had two of the qualities [?about ??? ????] popularly held to be essential to grog for ladies,
in respect that it was hot and strong; but [it ??????] in the third [????? ?????????????? ?? ???? ??????????] point of analogy, requiring plenty of it, [?????]
[???????? ????] the Snuggery was defective; being but a [d????????] cooped-up apartment.

The unaccustomed visitor [??? stranger?] from outside, naturally assumed everybody here to be prisoners—landlord,
[???????] waiter, barmaid, potboy, and all. Whether they were or not, did not appear; but they all [??????] had
a [w???] weedy [???????] look. The keeper of a chandler’s shop in a front parlour, who took in gentlemen boarders,
lent his assistance in making the bed. and It was evident from the general tone [?of the rest?] of the
[??? ?????? ????? ??? ??? ????? ????????? but of ????? and all the rest of them?] whole party, that they had come to regard insolvency as the normal state of mankind, and the payment of
debts as [a disease that ????? ???? ????? ?? ????? ??????] a disease that occasionally broke out.

In [???t] this strange [???????????] scene, and with these strange spectres [?????ing the air?] hovering
about him, Arthur Clennam looked on at the preparations [?????? ??????] as if [?? ?????? ??] they were
part [???? ??????] [??? ??????] of a dream. [?a ???? of ?????? ?????? ?????] Pending which, the long-initiated Tip, [???] with an awful
[???????????] [????? ?? ??????? ?? ??????? ?????] enjoyment of the Snuggery’s resources, [??????? ????????? of ??? ???? ???? ??? ??????? ??? ?????? ???? ????? ???] pointed out the
[??????] common kitchen fire maintained by subscription of collegians, the boiler for hot water supported in like manner