“The duty done, and act of reparation performed, which can alone enable me to contemplate my fellow mortal, I shall be known no more. I shall simply require to be deposited in that place of universal resort, where

“Each in his narrow cell forever laid,

The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep,

“Each in his narrow cell forever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep,

“⁠—With the plain Inscription,

“Wilkins Micawber.”