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evening, and the result was I bought him a rig-out as a page, had his ragged-school livery made up into a parcel and sent back to the refuge, and took him off in triumph to my lodgings, a fresh place I engaged for that purpose that very afternoon. He was my page, and had a little bed made up in an anteroom next my own bedroom.
"I had four rooms en suite at three guineas a week in a nice street in Camden Town.
"Next day I bought him some more clothes, shirts, hose, etc., and had him well bathed; in fact, he made a handsome. little gentleman when dressed in mufti.
"He seemed delighted at the change in his prospects, and the jolly blow-out of good things at every meal; so in the
