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but should you like that ? ' ` Mr. Dutton wants us to live out in some of the suburban places , where it seems there is a perfect population of clerks ' families in semi-detached houses . He says we should save Mark 's railway fare , rent , and all in doctors ' bills . But people , children and all , do live and thrive in the City ; and I think Mark 's health will be better looked after if I am there to give him his midday bite and sup , and brush him up , than if he is left to cater for himself ; and as to exercise for the Billy-boy , 't is not so far to the Thames Embankment . The only things that stagger me are the blacks ! I do n't know whether life is long enough to be after the blacks all day long , but perhaps I shall get used to them ! ' ` Well , I think that would be worse . '