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 fill of the fun. There they stood shaking with laughter, 'not an inch of their body free' from its grip. He was now at his own door—Castle Street, No. 39. He opened the door, and went straight to his own den; that wondrous workshop where in one year—1823 when he was fifty-two, he wrote Peveril of the Peak, Quentin Durnin, and St. Ronan's Well; besides much else."

And he had a helpful body, a tireless servant in his great life's work, fit companion for that mighty mind.