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It was settled that they should leave Fenmarket Their departure

caused but little surprise They had scarcely any friends, and it

was always conjectured that people so peculiar would ultimately find

their way to London They were particularly desirous to conceal

their movements, and therefore determined to warehouse their

furniture in town, to take furnished apartments there for three

ht arrive

at Fen these three months would be sent to them

at their new address; nothing probably would come afterwards, and as

nobody in Fenmarket would care to take any trouble about them, their

trace would become obliterated They found some rooms near Myddelton

Square, Pentonville, not a particularly cheerful place, but they

wished to avoid a more distant suburb, and Pentonville was cheap

Fortunately for the rid

of the Fenmarket house for the remainder of their term

For a little while London diverted them after a fashion, but the

absence of household cares told upon the to do

but to read and to take disloom of the outlook thickened as the days becae was naturally more

oppressed than the others, not only by reason of her temperament, but

because she was the author of the trouble which had befallen the to sustain and to cheer her