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LIMITED + Tavistock Street, Covent Garden, London + + + + +LIST OF WORKS AND ARTISTS + + + TITLE DESIGN _By Gordon Thomson_ + + SKETCHES BY BOZ 34 _Illustrations by Fred Barnard_ + + THE PICKWICK PAPERS 57 " " _Phiz_ + + OLIVER TWIST 28 " " _J. Mahoney_ + + NICHOLAS NICKLEBY 59 " " _Fred Barnard_ + + MASTER HUMPHREY'S CLOCK AND + OTHER STORIES 9 " " _Fred Barnard_ + + THE OLD CURIOSITY SHOP 39 " " _Charles Green_ + + BARNABY RUDGE 46 " " _Fred Barnard_ + + AMERICAN NOTES 10 " " _A. B. Frost_ + + MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT 59 " " _Fred Barnard_ + + CHRISTMAS BOOKS 28 " " _Fred Barnard_ + + PICTURES FROM ITALY 8 " " _Gordon Thomson_ + + DOMBEY AND SON 62 " " _Fred Barnard_ + + DAVID COPPERFIELD 61 " " _Fred Barnard_ + + A CHILD'S HISTORY OF ENGLAND 15 " " _J. McL. Ralston_ + + BLEAK HOUSE 61 " " _Fred Barnard_ + + HARD TIMES 20 " " _H. French_ + + LITTLE DORRIT 58 " " _J. Mahoney_ + + REPRINTED PIECES 9 " " _E. G. Dalziel_ + + A TALE OF TWO CITIES 25 " " _Fred Barnard_ + + UNCOMMERCIAL TRAVELLER 26 " " _E. G. Dalziel_ + + GREAT EXPECTATIONS 30 " " _F. A. Frazer_ + + OUR MUTUAL FRIEND 58 " " _J. Mahoney_ + + CHRISTMAS STORIES 23 " " _E. G. Dalziel_ + + EDWIN DROOD 12 " " _Luke Fildes_ + + LIFE OF DICKENS 28 " " _Fred Barnard_ + + + + +INTRODUCTORY NOTE + + +THERE is one question upon which the critics and lovers of Dickens seem +never able to get into agreement, and that is the question of the +original illustrations to his works. To the thorough-going enthusiast +Phiz and Dickens seem inseparable, and no edition which does not contain +the old, familiar grotesques of Hablot Browne's imagination, or, in the +earlier volume, the equally abnormal lineaments portrayed by Cruikshank +or Seymour, would be deemed worthy of a place upon his bookshelf. But a +younger generation is growing up, for whom the time-honoured pictures +have not the charm of long association, and among them it is common to +hear the complaint that the natural humour and pathos of the author's +best works are spoiled to modern fancy by the violent caricatures of the +illustrator. "Let us abolish these pictures altogether," they say: "and +illustrate the books with pretty conventionalities by more fashionable +artists." At the opposite pole stands yet another group of critics--the +"Superior People" who have made up their minds that Dickens himself was +a caricaturist, and that therefore the early illustrations, even if they +do a little emphasise his exaggerations, are only conceived in fitting +harmony with a world of fancy which drowns itself in excesses of the +grotesque. Among so many doctors, and all so emphatic, who shall decide? +It is, at any rate, no easy task. + +It happens, however, that there does exist a series of Dickens +illustrations, now in some danger of being unduly neglected, in which +the artists were wonderfully happy in preserving the original features +of Phiz and Cruikshank's interpretations, while they toned down the more +extravagant details and brought imagination into closer harmony with +reality. These were the illustrations to the square-shaped "Household +Edition," published in 1870, just after the great novelist's death--and +now reissued in this Dickens picture-book, in the hope that those who +love the stories may like to possess in separate form what is, perhaps, +the best pictorial accompaniment that the novels ever received. At the +time of its first publication, the "Household Edition" enjoyed an +enormous success. At the moment the name of Dickens was on every one's +lips, and the fact that this splendidly illustrated reprint was issued +in penny numbers and sixpenny parts placed it within reach of even the +most humbly stocked purse. Its sale was stupendous, and the familiar +green-covered pamphlets percolated through every town and village where +the English tongue is spoken. The original copies may still be met with, +under many a country timbered roof, carefully treasured as one of the +most cherished household possessions. + +Undoubtedly, a great part of the success was due to the art of the +illustrators. To begin with, there was an unusually liberal display of +pictures--the edition, as a whole, containing close upon nine hundred. +But more important than the number were the truth and sincerity of the +interpretations--qualities which helped to give a new life to characters +already secure of immortality. First and foremost, of course, the +edition will always be associated with the memory of Fred Barnard, whose +pictures are the outstanding feature of the present volume. Barnard +seemed destined by nature to illustrate Dickens; the spirit of "Boz" ran +again in his veins. And nothing in his work is more impressively +ingenious than the skill with which he took the types already created by +his predecessors, preserved their characteristics, so that each was +unmistakably himself, and yet by the illuminating touch of genius +transferred them every one from the realm of caricature to that of +portraiture. Not far inferior to him was that admirable draughtsman, +Charles Green, who exactly adopted Barnard's attitude to the originals. +The reader who will compare Green's illustrations to "The Old Curiosity +Shop" with Phiz's, will scarcely fail to notice with interest how often +Green has chosen the same subject as his predecessor, and all but +treated it in the same manner, save that a twisted grotesque suddenly +becomes, under the magic of his wand, a natural human being. His picture +of Sally Brass and the Marchioness is a remarkable instance in point: +but there are many others equally eloquent of his sympathetic and +interpretative method. Nor should the work of Mahony, A. B. Frost, +Gordon Thomson and others be forgotten, for each in his own way has +helped to make this volume, what its publishers confidently claim it to +be, a collection of Dickens pictures unrivalled for humour, pathos, +character, and interpretative skill. In the certainty that such a +gallery of good work can hardly fail to find appreciators, the volume is +now offered to all lovers of the most widely popular author of the +Victorian Era. + + + + + +SKETCHES BY BOZ + +ILLUSTRATIVE OF EVERY-DAY LIFE AND EVERY-DAY PEOPLE. + +[Illustration] + +THIRTY-FOUR ILLUSTRATIONS + +BY FRED BARNARD + +[Illustration: THE HALF-PAY CAPTAIN COMPLETELY EFFACED THE OLD LADY'S +NAME FROM THE BRASS DOOR-PLATE IN HIS ATTEMPTS TO POLISH IT WITH +AQUA-FORTIS--_Our Parish_, chap. ii.] + +[Illustration: "WHY THE DEVIL AIN'T YOU LOOKING AFTER THAT PLATE?"--_Our +Parish_, chap. v.] + +[Illustration: WHEN HE FIRST CAME TO LOOK AT THE LODGINGS, HE INQUIRED +MOST PARTICULARLY WHETHER HE WAS SURE TO BE ABLE TO GET A SEAT IN THE +PARISH CHURCH--_Our Parish_, chap. vii.] + +[Illustration: "IT IS NEARLY ELEVEN O'CLOCK, AND THE COLD THIN RAIN, +WHICH HAS BEEN DRIZZLING SO LONG, IS BEGINNING TO POUR DOWN IN GOOD +EARNEST"--_Scenes_, chap. ii.] + +[Illustration: THE GRAVESEND BOAT.--_Scenes_, chap. x.] + +[Illustration: DIFFERENT WOMEN OF THE HOUSE GOSSIPING ON THE STEPS ... +THE NATIVE DIALLERS--_Scenes_, chap. v.] + +[Illustration: IT WAS A WEDDING PARTY AND SKETCHED FROM ONE OF THE +INTERIOR STREETS NEAR FITZROY SQUARE--_Scenes_, chap. vii.] + +[Illustration: THE GENTLEMAN DESCRIBED LOOKS EXTREMELY FOOLISH, AND +SQUEEZES HER HAND, AND FEES THE GIPSY LIBERALLY--_Scenes_, chap. xii.] + +[Illustration: "I MAY AS WELL GET BOARD, LODGIN', AND WASHIN' TILL THEN, +OUT OF THE COUNTRY, AS PAY FOR IT MYSELF; CONSEQUENTLY HERE +GOES"--_Scenes_, chap. xvii.] + +[Illustration: "HIS LINE IS GENTEEL COMEDY--HIS FATHER'S COAL AND +POTATO. HE DOES ALFRED HIGHFLIER IN THE LAST PIECE, AND VERY WELL HE'LL +DO IT--AT THE PRICE."--_Scenes_, chap. xiv.] + +[Illustration: TUREENS OF SOUP ARE EMPTIED WITH AWFUL +RAPIDITY--_Scenes_, chap. x. 19] + +[Illustration: A GIN-SHOP--_Scenes_, chap. xxii.] + +[Illustration: THE PAWNBROKER'S SHOP--_Scenes_, chap. xxiii.] + +[Illustration: CHILDREN WERE PLAYING ON THE GRASS; GROUPS ... CHATTING +AND LAUGHING; BUT THE MAN WALKED STEADILY UP AND DOWN, UNHEEDING AND +UNHEEDED--_Characters_, chap. i.] + +[Illustration: "WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY THAT, SCOUNDREL?" EXCLAIMED MR. +SAMUEL WILKINS.... "WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH YOU, YOU LITTLE HUMBUG?" +REPLIED WHISKERS--_Characters_, chap. iv.] + +[Illustration: THE PRISONERS' VAN--_Characters_, chap. xii.] + +[Illustration: HURRYING ALONG A BY-STREET, KEEPING AS CLOSE AS HE CAN TO +THE AREA RAILINGS, A MAN OF ABOUT FORTY OR FIFTY, CLAD IN AN OLD RUSTY +SUIT OF THREADBARE BLACK CLOTH--_Characters_, chap. x.] + +[Illustration: "I RECEIVED A NOTE"--HE SAID TREMULOUSLY, IN A VOICE LIKE +A PUNCH WITH A COLD--"YES," RETURNED THE OTHER, "YOU DID,"--"EXACTLY,"-- +"YES"--_Tales_, Chap. i.] + +[Illustration: "NO WHAT?" INQUIRED MRS. BLOSS WITH A LOOK OF THE MOST +INDESCRIBABLE ALARM "NO STOMACH," REPEATED MRS. TIBBS WITH A SHAKE OF +THE HEAD--_Tales_, chap. i.] + +[Illustration: THE DEAR LITTLE FELLOW, HAVING RECOVERED HIS ANIMAL +SPIRITS, WAS STANDING UPON HER SOFT TENDER FOOT--_Tales_, chap. iii.] + +[Illustration: "SO EXACTLY THE AIR OF THE MARQUIS," SAID THE MILITARY +GENTLEMAN--_Tales_, chap. iv.] + +[Illustration: "HOW DELIGHTFUL, HOW REFRESHING IT IS, TO RETIRE FROM THE +CLOUDY STORMS, THE VICISSITUDES, AND THE TROUBLES OF LIFE, EVEN IF IT BE +BUT FOR A FEW FLEETING MOMENTS."--_Tales_, chap. v.] + +[Illustration: "WHO WAS HE?" INQUIRED THE SURGEON. "MY SON!" REJOINED +THE WOMAN; AND FELL SENSELESS AT HIS FEET--_Tales_, chap. vi.] + +[Illustration: THE FACETIOUS HARDY, IN FULFILMENT OF HIS PROMISE, HAD +WATCHED THE CHILD TO A REMOTE PART OF THE VESSEL, AND, SUDDENLY +APPEARING BEFORE HIM WITH THE MOST AWFUL CONTORTIONS OF VISAGE, HAD +PRODUCED HIS PAROXYSMS OF TERROR--_Tales_, chap. vii.] + +[Illustration: ONE GENTLEMAN WAS OBSERVED SUDDENLY TO RUSH FROM TABLE +WITHOUT THE SLIGHTEST OSTENSIBLE REASON, AND DART UP THE STEPS WITH +INCREDIBLE SWIFTNESS, THEREBY GREATLY DAMAGING BOTH HIMSELF AND THE +STEWARD, WHO HAPPENED TO BE COMING DOWN AT THE SAME MOMENT--_Tales_, +chap. vii.] + +[Illustration: "LEAVE THAT 'ERE BELL ALONE, YOU WRETCHED LOO-NATTIC!" +SAID THE BOOTS, SUDDENLY FORCING THE UNFORTUNATE TROTT BACK INTO HIS +CHAIR, AND BRANDISHING THE STICK ALOFT--_Tales_, chap. viii.] + +[Illustration: THE BLACK VEIL--_Tales_, chap. vi.] + +[Illustration: "WHY," REPLIED MR. WALKINS TOTTLE EVASIVELY; FOR HE +TREMBLED VIOLENTLY, AND FELT A SUDDEN TINGLING THROUGHOUT HIS WHOLE +FRAME; "WHY--I SHOULD CERTAINLY--AT LEAST, I _think_ I SHOULD +LIKE----"--_Tales_, chap. x. 1] + +[Illustration: MR. NICODEMUS DUMPS ... CROSS, CADAVEROUS, ODD AND +ILL-NATURED--_Tales_, chap. xi.] + +[Illustration: "I'VE BROUGHT THIS HERE NOTE," REPLIED THE INDIVIDUAL IN +THE PAINTED TOPS IN A HOARSE WHISPER; "I'VE BROUGHT THIS HERE NOTE FROM +A GEN'L'M'N AS COME TO OUR HOUSE THIS MORNIN'."--_Tales_, Chap. x. 2] + +[Illustration: HE RAISED HIS MANACLED HANDS IN A THREATENING ATTITUDE, +FIXED HIS EYES ON HIS SHRINKING PARENT AND SLOWLY LEFT THE +ROOM--_Tales_, chap. xii.] + +[Illustration: LOOKS THAT HE HAD LONG FORGOTTEN WERE FIXED UPON HIM ONCE +MORE; VOICES LONG SINCE HUSHED IN DEATH SOUNDED IN HIS EARS LIKE THE +MUSIC OF VILLAGE BELLS--_Tales_, chap. xii.] + + +[Illustration: THE BODY WAS WASHED ASHORE, SOME MILES DOWN THE RIVER, A +SWOLLEN DISFIGURED MASS--_Tales_, chap. xii.] + + + + +THE POSTHUMOUS PAPERS OF THE PICKWICK CLUB + +[Illustration] + +FIFTY-SEVEN ILLUSTRATIONS BY PHIZ + + +[Illustration: "COME ON," SAID THE CAB-DRIVER, SPARRING AWAY LIKE +CLOCKWORK. "COME ON--ALL FOUR ON YOU"--Chap. i.] + +[Illustration: "WHAT! INTRODUCING HIS FRIEND!"--Chap. ii.] + +[Illustration: MR. SNODGRASS AND MR. WINKLE HAD EACH PERFORMED A +COMPULSORY SUMMERSET WITH REMARKABLE AGILITY--Chap. iv.] + +[Illustration: THE HORSE NO SOONER BEHELD MR. PICKWICK ADVANCING WITH +THE CHAISE WHIP IN HIS HAND--Chap. v.] + +[Illustration: THERE WAS A SCREAM AS OF AN INDIVIDUAL--NOT A ROOK--IN +CORPOREAL ANGUISH. MR. TUPMAN HAD SAVED THE LIVES OF INNUMERABLE +UNOFFENDING BIRDS BY RECEIVING A PORTION OF THE CHARGE IN HIS LEFT +ARM--Chap. vii.] + +[Illustration: MR. WARDLE LOOKED ON, IN SILENT WONDER--Chap. vii.] + +[Illustration: OLD MR. WARDLE, WITH A HIGHLY-INFLAMED COUNTENANCE, WAS +GRASPING THE HAND OF A STRANGE GENTLEMAN--Chap. viii.] + +[Illustration: MR. TUPMAN LOOKED ROUND. THERE WAS THE FAT BOY--Chap. +viii.] + +[Illustration: SAM STOLE A LOOK AT THE INQUIRER--Chap. x.] + +[Illustration: "GOD BLESS ME, WHAT'S THE MATTER"--Chap. xi.] + +[Illustration: "TAKE THIS LITTLE VILLAIN AWAY," SAID THE AGONISED MR. +PICKWICK--Chap. xii.] + +[Illustration: "HE HAS COME OUT," SAID LITTLE MR. PERKER, GREATLY +EXCITED; THE MORE SO AS THEIR POSITION DID NOT ENABLE THEM TO SEE WHAT +WAS GOING FORWARD--Chap. xiii.] + +[Illustration: THE CHAIR WAS AN UGLY OLD GENTLEMAN; AND WHAT WAS MORE, +HE WAS WINKING AT TOM SMART--Chap. xiv.] + +[Illustration: "PERMIT ME TO INTRODUCE MY FRIENDS--MR. TUPMAN--MR. +WINKLE--MR. SNODGRASS"--Chap. xv.] + +[Illustration: THE HEROIC MAN ACTUALLY THREW HIMSELF INTO A PARALYTIC +ATTITUDE, CONFIDENTLY SUPPOSED BY THE TWO BYSTANDERS TO HAVE BEEN +INTENDED AS A POSTURE OF SELF-DEFENCE--Chap. xv.] + +[Illustration: MR. WELLER WAS DISPELLING ALL THE FEVERISH REMAINS OF THE +PREVIOUS EVENING'S CONVIVIALITY, ... WHEN HE WAS ATTRACTED BY THE +APPEARANCE OF A YOUNG FELLOW IN MULBERRY-COLOURED LIVERY--Chap. xvi.] + +[Illustration: THE DOOR WAS JUST GOING TO BE CLOSED IN CONSEQUENCE, WHEN +AN INQUISITIVE BOARDER, WHO HAD BEEN PEEPING BETWEEN THE HINGES, SET UP +A FEARFUL SCREAMING--Chap. xvi.] + +[Illustration: OLD LOBBS GAVE IT ONE TUG, AND OPEN IT FLEW, DISCLOSING +NATHANIEL PIPKIN STANDING BOLT UPRIGHT INSIDE, AND SHAKING WITH +APPREHENSION FROM HEAD TO FOOT--Chap. xvii.] + +[Illustration: "WHO ARE YOU, YOU RASCAL?" SAID THE CAPTAIN, +ADMINISTERING SEVERAL POKES TO MR. PICKWICK'S BODY WITH THE THICK STICK. +"WHAT'S YOUR NAME?"--Chap. xix.] + +[Illustration: "YOU JUST COME AWAY," SAID MR. WELLER. "BATTLEDORE AND +SHUTTLECOCK'S A WERY GOOD GAME, WHEN YOU AN'T THE SHUTTLECOCK AND TWO +LAWYERS THE BATTLEDORES"--Chap. xx.] + +[Illustration: "HEYLING!" SAID THE OLD MAN WILDLY. "MY BOY, HEYLING, MY +DEAR BOY, LOOK, LOOK!" GASPING FOR BREATH, THE MISERABLE FATHER POINTED +TO THE SPOT WHERE THE YOUNG MAN WAS STRUGGLING FOR LIFE--Chap. xxi.] + +[Illustration: STANDING BEFORE THE DRESSING-GLASS WAS A MIDDLE-AGED LADY +IN YELLOW CURL-PAPERS, BUSILY ENGAGED IN BRUSHING WHAT LADIES CALL THEIR +"BACK HAIR"--Chap. xxii.] + +[Illustration: MR. PICKWICK NO SOONER PUT ON HIS SPECTACLES, THAN HE AT +ONCE RECOGNISED IN THE FUTURE MRS. MAGNUS THE LADY INTO WHOSE ROOM HE +HAD SO UNWARRANTABLY INTRUDED ON THE PREVIOUS NIGHT--Chap. xxiv.] + +[Illustration: A COMPLIMENT WHICH MR. WELLER RETURNED BY KNOCKING HIM +DOWN OUT OF HAND: HAVING PREVIOUSLY, WITH THE UTMOST CONSIDERATION, +KNOCKED DOWN A CHAIRMAN FOR HIM TO LIE UPON--Chap. xxiv.] + +[Illustration: THE KITCHEN DOOR OPENED, AND IN WALKED MR. JOE +TROTTER--Chap. xxv.] + +[Illustration: SAM LOOKED AT THE FAT BOY WITH GREAT ASTONISHMENT, BUT +WITHOUT SAYING A WORD--Chap. xxviii.] + +[Illustration: BEFORE MR. PICKWICK DISTINCTLY KNEW WHAT WAS THE MATTER, +HE WAS SURROUNDED BY THE WHOLE BODY, AND KISSED BY EVERY ONE OF +THEM--Chap. xxviii.] + +[Illustration: SEATED ON AN UPRIGHT TOMBSTONE, CLOSE TO HIM, WAS A +STRANGE UNEARTHLY FIGURE--Chap. xxix.] + +[Illustration: MR. PICKWICK .... WENT SLOWLY AND GRAVELY DOWN THE SLIDE, +WITH HIS FEET ABOUT A YARD AND A QUARTER APART, AMIDST THE GRATIFIED +SHOUTS OF ALL THE SPECTATORS--Chap. xxx.] + +[Illustration: A LITTLE FIERCE WOMAN BOUNCED INTO THE ROOM, ALL IN A +TREMBLE WITH PASSION, AND PALE WITH RAGE--Chap. xxxii.] + +[Illustration: WITH A COUNTENANCE GREATLY MOLLIFIED BY THE SOFTENING +INFLUENCE OF TOBACCO, REQUESTED HIM TO "FIRE AWAY"--Chap. xxxiii.] + +[Illustration: BEFORE SAM COULD INTERFERE TO PREVENT IT, HIS HEROIC +PARENT HAD PENETRATED INTO A REMOTE CORNER OF THE ROOM, AND ATTACKED THE +REVEREND MR. STIGGINS WITH MANUAL DEXTERITY--Chap. xxxiii.] + +[Illustration: AN ADMONITORY GESTURE FROM PERKER RESTRAINED HIM, AND HE +LISTENED TO THE LEARNED GENTLEMAN'S CONTINUATION WITH A LOOK OF +INDIGNATION--Chap. xxxiv.] + +[Illustration: POOR MR. PICKWICK! HE HAD NEVER PLAYED WITH THREE +THOROUGH-PACED FEMALE CARD-PLAYERS BEFORE--Chap. xxxv.] + +[Illustration: HE NO SOONER HEARD THE HORRIBLE THREAT OF THE VALOROUS +DOWLER, THAN HE BOUNCED OUT OF THE SEDAN--Chap. xxxvi.] + +[Illustration: MR. TUCKLE, DRESSED OUT WITH THE COCKED-HAT AND STICK, +DANCED THE FROG HORNPIPE AMONG THE SHELLS ON THE TABLE--Chap. xxxvii.] + +[Illustration: MR BOB SAWYER'S BOY ... PEEPED THROUGH THE GLASS DOOR, +AND THUS LISTENED AND LOOKED ON AT THE SAME TIME--Chap. xxxviii.] + +[Illustration: "UNLOCK THAT DOOR, AND LEAVE THIS ROOM IMMEDIATELY, SIR," +SAID MR. WINKLE--Chap. xxxviii.] + +[Illustration: "MY DEAR," SAID MR. PICKWICK, LOOKING OVER THE WALL, AND +CATCHING SIGHT OF ARABELLA ON THE OTHER SIDE. "DON'T BE FRIGHTENED, MY +DEAR, 'TIS ONLY ME"--Chap. xxxix.] + +[Illustration: MR. PICKWICK SITTING FOR HIS PORTRAIT--Chap. xl.] + +[Illustration: LETTING HIS HAT FALL ON THE FLOOR, HE STOOD PERFECTLY +FIXED AND IMMOVABLE WITH ASTONISHMENT--Chap. xlii.] + +[Illustration: WITH THIS, THE SPEAKER SNATCHED THAT ARTICLE OF DRESS +FROM MR. PICKWICK'S HEAD--Chap. xli.] + +[Illustration: SAM, HAVING BEEN FORMALLY INTRODUCED .... AS THE +OFFSPRING OF MR. WELLER, OF THE BELLE SAVAGE, WAS TREATED WITH MARKED +DISTINCTION--Chap. xliii.] + +[Illustration: "DO YOU ALWAYS SMOKE ARTER YOU GOES TO BED, OLD COCK?" +INQUIRED MR. WELLER OF HIS LANDLORD, WHEN THEY HAD BOTH RETIRED FOR THE +NIGHT--Chap. xliv.] + +[Illustration: MR. STIGGINS, GETTING ON HIS LEGS AS WELL AS HE COULD, +PROCEEDED TO DELIVER AN EDIFYING DISCOURSE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE +COMPANY--Chap. xlv.] + +[Illustration: MRS. BARDELL SCREAMED VIOLENTLY; TOMMY ROARED; MRS. +CLUFFINK SHRUNK WITHIN HERSELF AND MRS. SANDERS MADE OFF WITHOUT MORE +ADO--Chap. xlvi.] + +[Illustration: MR. PICKWICK COULD SCARCELY BELIEVE THE EVIDENCE OF HIS +OWN SENSES--Chap. xlvii.] + +[Illustration: THESE ATTENTIONS WERE DIRECTED, NOT TOWARDS HIM, BUT TO A +YOUNG LADY WHO JUST THEN APPEARED AT THE FOOT OF THE STEPS--Chap. xlix.] + +[Illustration: MR. BOB SAWYER WAS SEATED: NOT IN THE DICKEY, BUT ON THE +ROOF OF THE CHAISE--Chap. l.] + +[Illustration: SNATCHING UP A MEAL-SACK, EFFECTUALLY STOPPED THE +CONFLICT BY DRAWING IT OVER THE HEAD AND SHOULDERS OF THE MIGHTY +POTT--Chap. ii.] + +[Illustration: SUDDENLY AWARE THAT HE WAS IN THE PRESENCE OF A STRANGER, +MR. BEN ALLEN ADVANCED--Chap. l.] + +[Illustration: IT WAS A STILL MORE EXCITING SPECTACLE TO BEHOLD MR. +WELLER .... IMMERSING MR. STIGGINS'S HEAD IN A HORSE-TROUGH FULL OF +WATER, AND HOLDING IT THERE UNTIL HE WAS HALF SUFFOCATED--Chap. lii.] + +[Illustration: "I SAY INSOLENT FAMILIARITY, SIR," SAID MR. PICKWICK, +TURNING UPON FOGG WITH A FIERCENESS OF GESTURE WHICH CAUSED THAT PERSON +TO RETREAT TOWARDS THE DOOR WITH GREAT EXPEDITION--Chap. liii.] + +[Illustration: "I SAY, HOW NICE YOU LOOK!"--Chap. liv.] + +[Illustration: THE MOTTLED-FACED GENTLEMAN REVIEWED THE COMPANY, AND +SLOWLY LIFTED HIS HAND--Chap. lv.] + +[Illustration: THE WORDS WERE SCARCELY OUT OF THE OLD GENTLEMAN'S LIPS, +WHEN FOOTSTEPS WERE HEARD ASCENDING THE STAIRS--Chap. lvi.] + + + + + THE ADVENTURES OF + OLIVER TWIST + + [Illustration] + + TWENTY-EIGHT ILLUSTRATIONS + BY J. MAHONEY + +[Illustration: OLIVER ASKS FOR MORE--Chap. ii.] + +[Illustration: "LIBERAL TERMS, MR. SOWERBERRY, LIBERAL TERMS!"--Chap. +iv.] + +[Illustration: OLIVER RATHER ASTONISHES NOAH--Chap. vi.] + +[Illustration: "HULLO, MY COVEY! WHAT'S THE ROW?"--Chap. viii.] + +[Illustration: "STOP THIEF!"--Chap. x.] + +[Illustration: "WHAT'S BECOME OF THE BOY?"--Chap. xiii.] + +[Illustration: "YOU ARE ON THE SCENT, ARE YOU, NANCY?"--Chap. xv.] + +[Illustration: "A BEADLE! A PARISH BEADLE, OR I'LL EAT MY HEAD"--Chap. +xvii.] + +[Illustration: THE BOY WAS LYING FAST ASLEEP, ON A RUDE BED UPON THE +FLOOR--Chap. xix.] + +[Illustration: SIKES, WITH OLIVER'S HANDS STILL IN HIS, SOFTLY +APPROACHED THE LOW PORCH--Chap. xxi.] + +[Illustration: "DIRECTLY I LEAVE GO OF YOU, DO YOUR WORK. HARK!"--Chap. +xxii.] + +[Illustration: "FAGIN!" WHISPERED A VOICE CLOSE TO HIS EAR--Chap. +xxvi.] + +[Illustration: "DON'T SIGH, MRS. CORNEY," SAID MR. BUMBLE--Chap. xxvii.] + +[Illustration: "JUST SEND SOMEBODY OUT TO RELIEVE MY MATE, WILL YOU, +YOUNG MAN?"--Chap. xxxi.] + +[Illustration: WHEN IT BECAME QUITE DARK, AND THEY RETURNED HOME, THE +YOUNG LADY WOULD SIT DOWN TO THE PIANO, AND PLAY SOME PLEASANT +AIR--Chap. xxxii.] + +[Illustration: LOOKING ROUND, HE SAW THAT IT WAS A POST-CHAISE, DRIVEN +AT GREAT SPEED--Chap. xxxiv.] + +[Illustration: A "FEW--A VERY FEW--WILL SUFFICE, ROSE," SAID THE YOUNG +MAN, DRAWING HIS CHAIR TOWARDS HER--Chap. xxxv.] + +[Illustration: "WERE YOU LOOKING FOR ME," HE SAID, "WHEN YOU PEERED IN +AT THE WINDOW?"--Chap. xxxvii.] + +[Illustration: THE EVIDENCE DESTROYED--Chap. xxxviii.] + +[Illustration: THEN, STOOPING SOFTLY OVER THE BED, SHE KISSED THE +ROBBER'S LIPS--Chap. xxxix.] + +[Illustration: "LOOK THERE! THOSE ARE THE LIGHTS OF LONDON"--Chap. +xlii.] + +[Illustration: "WHAT IS THIS?" INQUIRED ONE OF THE MAGISTRATES. "A +PICK-POCKETING CASE, YOUR WORSHIP"--Chap. xliii.] + +[Illustration: WHEN SHE WAS ABOUT THE SAME DISTANCE IN ADVANCE AS SHE +HAD BEEN BEFORE, HE SLIPPED QUIETLY DOWN, AND FOLLOWED HER AGAIN--Chap. +xlvi.] + +[Illustration: HE MOVED, BACKWARD, TOWARDS THE DOOR: DRAGGED THE DOG +WITH HIM--Chap. xlviii.] + +[Illustration: AND CREEPING OVER THE TILES, LOOKED OVER THE LOW +PARAPET--Chap. l.] + +[Illustration: "DO YOU KNOW THE YOUNG LADY, SIR?"--Chap. li.] + +[Illustration: HE SAT DOWN ON THE STONE BENCH OPPOSITE THE DOOR--Chap. +lvi.] + + + + +THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF NICHOLAS NICKLEBY + +[Illustration] + +FIFTY-NINE ILLUSTRATIONS BY FRED BARNARD + + +[Illustration: RALPH NICKLEBY AND NEWMAN NOGGS--Chap. ii.] + +[Illustration: THE UNCLE AND NEPHEW LOOKED AT EACH OTHER FOR SOME +SECONDS WITHOUT SPEAKING--Chap. iii.] + +[Illustration: THE SCHOOLMASTER AND HIS COMPANION LOOKED STEADILY AT +EACH OTHER FOR A FEW SECONDS, AND THEN EXCHANGED A VERY MEANING +SMILE--Chap. iv.] + +[Illustration: "SNUBS AND ROMANS ARE PLENTIFUL ENOUGH, AND THERE ARE +FLATS OF ALL SORTS AND SIZES WHEN THERE'S A MEETING AT EXETER +HALL"--Chap. v.] + +[Illustration: "VERY GLAD TO MAKE YOUR ACQUAINTANCE, MISS," SAID +SQUEERS, RAISING HIS HAT AN INCH OR TWO--Chap. v.] + +[Illustration: ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF THE FIRE, THERE SAT WITH FOLDED +ARMS A WRINKLING HIDEOUS FIGURE--Chap. vi.] + +[Illustration: THE FIRST CLASS ENGLISH SPELLING AND PHILOSOPHY--Chap. +viii.] + +[Illustration: "PAIN AND FEAR, PAIN AND FEAR FOR ME, ALIVE OR DEAD. NO +HOPE, NO HOPE!"--Chap. viii.] + +[Illustration: KATE WALKED SADLY BACK TO THEIR LODGINGS IN THE +STRAND--Chap. x.] + +[Illustration: "OH! AS SOFT AS POSSIBLE, IF YOU PLEASE"--Chap. ix.] + +[Illustration: "WRETCH," REJOINED NICHOLAS FIERCELY, "TOUCH HIM AT YOUR +PERIL! I WILL NOT STAND BY, AND SEE IT DONE. MY BLOOD IS UP, AND I HAVE +THE STRENGTH OF TEN SUCH MEN AS YOU"--Chap. xiii.] + +[Illustration: "I CAN--NOT HELP IT, AND IT DON'T SIGNIFY," SOBBED MRS. +KENWIGS. "OH! THEY'RE TOO BEAUTIFUL TO LIVE, MUCH TOO BEAUTIFUL!"--Chap. +xiv.] + +[Illustration: THERE CAME INTO THE OFFICE AN APPLICANT IN WHOSE FAVOUR +HE IMMEDIATELY RETIRED, AND WHOSE APPEARANCE BOTH SURPRISED AND +INTERESTED HIM--Chap. xvi.] + +[Illustration: "I DON'T FORGET YOU, MY SOUL, AND NEVER SHALL, AND NEVER +CAN," SAID MANTALINI, KISSING HIS WIFE'S HAND AND GRIMACING ASIDE TO +MISS NICKLEBY, WHO TURNED AWAY--Chap. xvii.] + +[Illustration: "A MISERABLE WRETCH," EXCLAIMED MR. KNAG, STRIKING HIS +FOREHEAD. "A MISERABLE WRETCH"--Chap. xviii.] + +[Illustration: "I AM AFRAID YOU HAVE BEEN GIVING HER SOME OF YOUR WICKED +LOOKS, MY LORD," SAID THE INTENDED--Chap. xviii.] + +[Illustration: BUT THE YOUNG LADY MAKING A VIOLENT EFFORT TO DISENGAGE +HERSELF, HE LOST HIS BALANCE, AND MEASURED HIS LENGTH UPON THE +GROUND--Chap. xix.] + +[Illustration: THE DRESSING-ROOM DOOR BEING HASTILY FLUNG OPEN, MR. +MANTALINI WAS DISCLOSED TO VIEW, WITH HIS SHIRT COLLAR SYMMETRICALLY +THROWN BACK: PUTTING A FINE EDGE TO A BREAKFAST KNIFE BY MEANS OF HIS +RAZOR STROP--Chap. xxi.] + +[Illustration: "YOU CAN JUST GIVE HIM THAT ERE CARD, AND TELL HIM IF HE +WANTS TO SPEAK TO ME, AND SAVE TROUBLE, HERE I AM, THAT'S ALL"--Chap. +xxi.] + +[Illustration: MR. CRUMMLES LOOKED, FROM TIME TO TIME, WITH GREAT +INTEREST AT SMIKE, WITH WHOM HE HAD APPEARED CONSIDERABLY STRUCK FROM +THE FIRST. HE HAD NOW FALLEN ASLEEP, AND WAS NODDING IN HIS CHAIR--Chap. +xxii.] + +[Illustration: THE INDIAN SAVAGE AND THE MAIDEN--Chap. xxiii.] + +[Illustration: "AS AN EXQUISITE EMBODIMENT OF THE POET'S VISIONS, AND A +REALISATION OF HUMAN INTELLECTUALITY, GILDING WITH REFULGENT LIGHT OUR +DREAMY MOMENTS, AND LAYING OPEN A NEW AND MAGIC WORLD BEFORE THE MENTAL +EYE, THE DRAMA IS GONE, PERFECTLY GONE," SAID MR. CURDLE--Chap. xxiv.] + +[Illustration: "NICKLEBY," SAID HIS CLIENT, THROWING HIMSELF ALONG THE +SOFA ON WHICH HE HAD BEEN PREVIOUSLY SEATED, SO AS TO BRING HIS LIPS +NEARER TO THE OLD MAN'S EAR, "WHAT A PRETTY CREATURE YOUR NIECE +IS!"--Chap. xxvi.] + +[Illustration: SIR MULBERRY HAWK AND HIS FRIEND EXCHANGED GLANCES OVER +THE TOP OF THE BONNET--Chap. xxvi.] + +[Illustration: "I SEE HOW IT IS," SAID POOR NOGGS, DRAWING FROM HIS +POCKET WHAT SEEMED TO BE A VERY OLD DUSTER, AND WIPING KATE'S EYES WITH +IT AS GENTLY AS IF SHE WERE AN INFANT--Chap. xxviii.] + +[Illustration: "BUT THEY SHALL NOT PROTECT YE!" SAID THE TRAGEDIAN, +TAKING AN UPWARD LOOK AT NICHOLAS, BEGINNING AT HIS BOOTS AND ENDING AT +THE CROWN OF HIS HEAD--Chap. xxix.] + +[Illustration: MR. SNEVELLICCI REPEATED THE WINK, AND, DRINKING TO MRS. +LILYVICK IN DUMB-SHOW, ACTUALLY BLEW HER A KISS--Chap. xxx.] + +[Illustration: LASHING HIMSELF UP TO AN EXTRAORDINARY PITCH OF FURY, +NEWMAN NOGGS JERKED HIMSELF ABOUT THE ROOM WITH THE MOST ECCENTRIC +MOTION EVER BEHELD IN A HUMAN BEING--Chap. xxxi.] + +[Illustration: "LOOK AT THEM TEARS, SIR!" SAID SQUEERS WITH A TRIUMPHANT +AIR, AS MASTER WACKFORD WIPED HIS EYES WITH THE CUFF OF HIS JACKET; +"THERE'S OILINESS"--Chap. xxxiv.] + +[Illustration: SIR MULBERRY, SHORTENING HIS WHIP, APPLIED IT FURIOUSLY +TO THE HEAD AND SHOULDERS OF NICHOLAS. IT WAS BROKEN IN THE STRUGGLE: +NICHOLAS GAINED THE HEAVY HANDLE, AND WITH IT LAID OPEN ONE SIDE OF HIS +ANTAGONIST'S FACE FROM THE EYE TO THE LIP--Chap. xxxii.] + +[Illustration: NIGHT FOUND HIM, AT LAST, STILL HARPING ON THE SAME +THEME, AND STILL PURSUING THE SAME UNPROFITABLE REFLECTIONS--Chap. +xxxiv.] + +[Illustration: "I'M NOT COMING AN HOUR LATER IN THE MORNING, YOU KNOW," +SAID TIM, BREAKING OUT ALL AT ONCE, AND LOOKING VERY RESOLUTE. "I'M NOT +GOING TO SLEEP IN THE FRESH AIR--NO, NOR I'M NOT GOING INTO THE COUNTRY +EITHER"--Chap. xxxv.] + +[Illustration: WITH THIS THE DOCTOR LAUGHED; BUT HE DIDN'T LAUGH HALF AS +MUCH AS A MARRIED FRIEND OF MRS. KENWIGS'S, WHO HAD JUST COME IN FROM +THE SICK CHAMBER--Chap. xxxvi.] + +[Illustration: "YE'ES," SAID THE OTHER, TURNING FULL UPON HIM. "IF YOU +HAD TOLD HIM WHO YOU WERE: IF YOU HAD GIVEN HIM YOUR CARD, AND FOUND +OUT, AFTERWARDS, THAT HIS STATION OR CHARACTER PREVENTED YOUR FIGHTING +HIM, IT WOULD HAVE BEEN BAD ENOUGH THEN"--Chap. xxxviii.] + +[Illustration: DARTING IN, COVERED SMIKE'S MOUTH WITH HIS HUGE HAND +BEFORE HE COULD UTTER A SOUND--Chap. xxxix.] + +[Illustration: THE MEDITATIVE OGRE--Chap. xl.] + +[Illustration: CONCLUDED BY STANDING ON ONE LEG, AND REPEATING HIS +FAVOURITE BELLOW WITH INCREASED VEHEMENCE--Chap. xli.] + +[Illustration: "I SAY," SAID JOHN, RATHER ASTOUNDED FOR THE MOMENT, +"MAK' THEESELF QUITE AT WHOAM, WILL 'EE?"--Chap. xlii.] + +[Illustration: FELL UPON HIS FACE IN A PASSION OF BITTER GRIEF--Chap. +xliii.] + +[Illustration: "I AM A MOST MISERABLE AND WRETCHED OUTCAST, NEARLY SIXTY +YEARS OLD, AND AS DESTITUTE AND HELPLESS AS A CHILD OF SIX"--Chap. +xliv.] + +[Illustration: MR. SQUEERS EXECUTES AN IMPROMPTU "PAS SEUL"--Chap. xlv.] + +[Illustration: WAS PRESENTLY CONDUCTED BY A ROBBER, WITH A VERY LARGE +BELT AND BUCKLE ROUND HIS WAIST, AND VERY LARGE LEATHER GAUNTLETS ON HIS +HANDS, INTO THE PRESENCE OF HIS FORMER MANAGER--Chap. xlviii.] + +[Illustration: "NO MATTER! DO YOU THINK YOU BRING YOUR PALTRY MONEY HERE +AS A FAVOUR OR A GIFT; OR AS A MATTER OF BUSINESS, AND IN RETURN FOR +VALUE RECEIVED"--Chap. xlvi.] + +[Illustration: "AHA!" CRIED THE OLD GENTLEMAN, FOLDING HIS HANDS AND +SQUEEZING THEM WITH GREAT FORCE AGAINST EACH OTHER. "I SEE HER NOW; I +SEE HER NOW; MY LOVE, MY LIFE, MY BRIDE, MY PEERLESS BEAUTY! SHE IS COME +AT LAST--AT LAST--AND ALL IS GAS AND GAITERS"--Chap. xlix.] + +[Illustration: TWO MEN, SEIZING EACH OTHER BY THE THROAT, STRUGGLED INTO +THE MIDDLE OF THE ROOM--Chap. l.] + +[Illustration: ALL THE LIGHT AND LIFE OF DAY CAME ON; AND AMIDST IT ALL, +AND PRESSING DOWN THE GRASS WHOSE EVERY BLADE BORE TWENTY TINY LIVES, +LAY THE DEAD MAN, WITH HIS STARK AND RIGID FACE TURNED UPWARDS TO THE +SKY--Chap. l.] + +[Illustration: "I'LL BE MARRIED IN THE BOTTLE-GREEN," CRIED ARTHUR +GRIDE--Chap. li.] + +[Illustration: "THIEVES! THIEVES!" SHRIEKED THE USURER, STARTING UP AND +FOLDING HIS BOOK TO HIS BREAST; "ROBBERS! MURDER!"--Chap. liii.] + +[Illustration: "I MUST BESEECH YOU TO CONTEMPLATE AGAIN THE FEARFUL +COURSE TO WHICH YOU HAVE BEEN IMPELLED"--Chap. liii.] + +[Illustration: HE DREW RALPH NICKLEBY TO THE FURTHER END OF THE ROOM, +AND POINTED TOWARDS GRIDE, WHO SAT HUDDLED TOGETHER IN A CORNER, +FUMBLING NERVOUSLY WITH THE BUTTONS OF HIS COAT, AND EXHIBITING A FACE +OF WHICH EVERY SKULKING AND BASE EXPRESSION WAS SHARPENED AND AGGRAVATED +TO THE UTMOST OF HIS ANXIETY AND TREPIDATION--Chap. liv.] + +[Illustration: "THERE IS SOMETHING MISSING, YOU SAY," SAID RALPH, +SHAKING HIM FURIOUSLY BY THE COLLAR. "WHAT IS IT?"--Chap. lvi.] + +[Illustration: "DO YOU SEE THIS? THIS IS A BOTTLE"--Chap. lvii.] + +[Illustration: "WHO TAMPERED WITH A SELFISH FATHER, URGING HIM TO SELL +HIS DAUGHTER TO OLD ARTHUR GRIDE, AND TAMPERED WITH GRIDE TOO, AND DID +SO IN THE LITTLE OFFICE, WITH A CLOSET IN THE ROOM"--Chap. lix.] + +[Illustration: "TOTAL, ALL UP WITH SQUEERS!"--Chap. lx.] + +[Illustration: RALPH MAKES ONE LAST APPOINTMENT--AND KEEPS IT--Chap. +lxii.] + +[Illustration: CLASPING THE IRON RAILINGS WITH HIS HANDS, LOOKED EAGERLY +IN, WONDERING WHICH MIGHT BE HIS GRAVE--Chap. lxii.] + +[Illustration: "OH, MR. LINKINWATER, YOU'RE JOKING!" "NO, NO, I'M NOT. +I'M NOT INDEED," SAID TIM. "I WILL, IF YOU WILL. DO, MY DEAR!"--Chap. +lxiii.] + +[Illustration: THE LITTLE PEOPLE COULD DO NOTHING WITHOUT DEAR NEWMAN +NOGGS--Chap. lxv.] + + + + +MASTER HUMPHREY'S CLOCK AND OTHER STORIES + +[Illustration] + +NINE ILLUSTRATIONS BY FRED BARNARD + + +[Illustration: AT SUCH TIMES, OR WHEN THE SHOUTS OF STRAGGLING BRAWLERS +MET HER EAR, THE BOWYER'S DAUGHTER WOULD LOOK TIMIDLY BACK AT HUGH, +BESEECHING HIM TO DRAW NEARER.--_Master Humphrey's Clock_, chap. i.] + +[Illustration: AS HE SAT UPON A LOW SEAT BESIDE MY WIFE, I WOULD PEER AT +HIM FOR HOURS TOGETHER FROM BEHIND A TREE.--_Master Humphrey's Clock_, +chap. ii.] + +[Illustration: "VITH THESE VORDS HE RUSHES INTO THE SHOP, BREAKS THE +DUMMY'S NOSE WITH A BLOW OF HIS CURLIN'-IRONS, MELTS HIM DOWN AT THE +PARLOUR FIRE, AND NEVER SMILES AFTERWARDS."--_Master Humphrey's Clock_, +chap. v.] + +[Illustration: AT LAST THEY MADE A HALT AT THE OPENING OF A LONELY, +DESOLATE SPACE, AND, POINTING TO A BLACK OBJECT AT SOME DISTANCE, ASKED +WILL IF HE SAW THAT YONDER.--_Master Humphrey's Clock_, chap. iii.] + +[Illustration: "WITH A LOOK OF SCORN, SHE PUT INTO MY HAND A BIT OF +PAPER, AND TOOK ANOTHER PARTNER. ON THE PAPER WAS PENCILLED, 'HEAVENS! +CAN I WRITE THE WORD? IS MY HUSBAND A COW?'"--_Holiday Romance_, Part +i.] + +[Illustration: "WHAT IS THE MATTER?" ASKED BROTHER HAUKYARD. "AY! WHAT +IS THE MATTER?" ASKED BROTHER GIMBLET.--_George Silverman's +Explanation_, chap. vi.] + +[Illustration: GEORGE SILVERMAN WRITES HIS EXPLANATION.--Chap. ix.] + +[Illustration: "YOU SHALL SEE ME ONCE AGAIN IN THE BODY, WHEN YOU ARE +TRIED FOR YOUR LIFE. YOU SHALL SEE ME ONCE AGAIN IN THE SPIRIT, WHEN THE +CORD IS ROUND YOUR NECK AND THE CROWD ARE CRYING AGAINST YOU."--_Hunted +Down_, chap. v.] + + + + +THE OLD CURIOSITY SHOP + +[Illustration] + +THIRTY-NINE ILLUSTRATIONS BY C. GREEN + + +[Illustration: THE DOOR BEING OPENED, THE CHILD ADDRESSED HIM AS HER +GRANDFATHER--Chap. i.] + +[Illustration: THE OLD MAN SAT HIMSELF DOWN IN A CHAIR, AND, WITH FOLDED +HANDS, LOOKED SOMETIMES AT HIS GRANDSON AND SOMETIMES AT HIS STRANGE +COMPANION--Chap. i.] + +[Illustration: WHEN HE DID SIT DOWN, HE TUCKED UP HIS SLEEVES AND +SQUARED HIS ELBOWS AND PUT HIS FACE CLOSE TO THE COPY-BOOK--Chap. iii.] + +[Illustration: DANIEL QUILP SAT HIMSELF DOWN IN A WHERRY TO CROSS TO THE +OPPOSITE SHORE--Chap. v.] + +[Illustration: HE SOON CAST HIS EYES UPON A CHAIR, INTO WHICH HE SKIPPED +WITH UNCOMMON AGILITY, AND, PERCHING HIMSELF ON THE BACK WITH HIS FEET +UPON THE SEAT, WAS THUS ENABLED TO LOOK ON--Chap. ix.] + +[Illustration: "I'LL BEAT YOU TO PULP, YOU DOGS"--Chap. vi.] + +[Illustration: "IS IT GOOD, BRASS, IS IT NICE, IS IT FRAGRANT?"--Chap. +xi.] + +[Illustration: NOT TO BE BEHINDHAND IN THE BUSTLE, MR. QUILP WENT TO +WORK WITH SURPRISING VIGOUR--Chap. xiii.] + +[Illustration: NELLY, KNEELING DOWN BESIDE THE BOX, WAS SOON BUSILY +ENGAGED IN HER TASK--Chap. xvii.] + +[Illustration: "NOW, GENTLEMEN," SAID JERRY, LOOKING AT THEM +ATTENTIVELY, "THE DOG WHOSE NAME'S CALLED, EATS"--Chap. xviii.] + +[Illustration: THERE WAS BUT ONE LADY WHO SEEMED TO UNDERSTAND THE +CHILD, AND SHE WAS ONE WHO SAT ALONE IN A HANDSOME CARRIAGE--Chap. xix.] + +[Illustration: A SMALL WHITE-HEADED BOY WITH A SUNBURNT FACE APPEARED AT +THE DOOR WHILE HE WAS SPEAKING, AND STOPPING THERE TO MAKE A RUSTIC BOW, +CAME IN--Chap. xxv.] + +[Illustration: AND THEN THEY WENT ON ARM-IN-ARM, VERY LOVINGLY +TOGETHER--Chap. xxiii.] + +[Illustration: SHE HANDED DOWN TO THEM THE TEA-TRAY, THE BREAD AND +BUTTER, THE KNUCKLE OF HAM, AND, IN SHORT, EVERYTHING OF WHICH SHE HAD +PARTAKEN HERSELF--Chap. xxvi.] + +[Illustration: "THAT, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN," SAID MRS. JARLEY, "IS +JASPER PACKLEMERTON OF ATROCIOUS MEMORY"--Chap. xxviii.] + +[Illustration: AND IN THIS STATE AND CEREMONY RODE SLOWLY THROUGH THE +TOWN EVERY MORNING--Chap. xxix.] + +[Illustration: IN SOME OF THESE FLOURISHES IT WENT CLOSE TO MISS SALLY'S +HEAD--Chap. xxxiii.] + +[Illustration: "YOU'RE THE WAX-WORK CHILD, ARE YOU NOT?"--Chap. xxxi.] + +[Illustration: "OH PLEASE," SAID A LITTLE VOICE VERY LOW DOWN IN THE +DOORWAY, "WILL YOU COME AND SHOW THE LODGINGS?"--Chap. xxxiv.] + +[Illustration: "DO YOU SEE THIS?"--Chap. xxxvi.] + +[Illustration: AT LENGTH EVERYTHING WAS READY, AND THEY WENT OFF--Chap. +xxxix.] + +[Illustration: THE OLD MAN STOOD HELPLESSLY AMONG THEM FOR A LITTLE +TIME--Chap. xiii.] + +[Illustration: A MAN OF VERY UNCOUTH AND ROUGH APPEARANCE WAS STANDING +OVER THEM--Chap. xliii.] + +[Illustration: "SHE IS QUITE EXHAUSTED," SAID THE SCHOOLMASTER--Chap. +xlvi.] + +[Illustration: "AQUILINE!" CRIED QUILP, THRUSTING IN HIS HEAD--Chap. +xlix.] + +[Illustration: BOTH MOTHER AND DAUGHTER, TREMBLING WITH TERROR AND COLD, +.... OBEYED MR. QUILP'S DIRECTIONS IN SUBMISSIVE SILENCE--Chap. l.] + +[Illustration: "HALLOA!"--Chap. l.] + +[Illustration: ELEVATING HIS GLASS, DRANK TO THEIR NEXT MERRY-MEETING IN +THAT JOVIAL SPOT--Chap. li.] + + +[Illustration: THE CHILD SAT DOWN IN THIS OLD SILENT PLACE--Chap. +liii.] + +[Illustration: "THEN, MARCHIONESS," SAID MR. SWIVELLER, "FIRE +AWAY!"--Chap. lviii.] + +[Illustration: THE AIR WAS, "AWAY WITH MELANCHOLY"--Chap. lvlli.] + +[Illustration: "IS IT LIKE KIT--IS IT HIS PICTURE, HIS IMAGE, HIS VERY +SELF?"--Chap. lxii.] + +[Illustration: THE MARCHIONESS JUMPED UP QUICKLY, AND CLAPPED HER +HANDS--Chap. lxiv.] + +[Illustration: SHE HAD NOTHING FOR IT NOW, THEREFORE, BUT TO RUN AFTER +THE CHAISE--Chap. lxv.] + +[Illustration: TOM IMMEDIATELY WALKED UPON HIS HANDS TO THE WINDOW, +AND--IF THE EXPRESSION BE ALLOWABLE--LOOKED IN WITH HIS SHOES--Chap. +lxvii.] + +[Illustration: THE STRONG TIDE FILLED HIS THROAT, AND BORE HIM ON ITS +RAPID CURRENT--Chap. lxvii.] + +[Illustration: "MASTER!" HE CRIED, STOOPING ON ONE KNEE AND CATCHING AT +HIS HAND. "DEAR MASTER! SPEAK TO ME!"--Chap. lxxi.] + +[Illustration: TWO WRETCHED PEOPLE WERE MORE THAN ONCE OBSERVED TO CRAWL +AT DUSK FROM THE INMOST RECESSES OF ST. GILES'S--Chap. lxxiii.] + + + + +BARNABY RUDGE + +A TALE OF THE RIOTS OF 'EIGHTY + +[Illustration] + +FORTY-SIX ILLUSTRATIONS BY FRED BARNARD + + +[Illustration: "STAND--LET ME SEE YOUR FACE"--Chap. ii.] + +[Illustration: "DOES THE BOY KNOW WHAT HE'S A-SAYING OF!" CRIED THE +ASTONISHED JOHN WILLETT--Chap. iii.] + +[Illustration: "I CAN'T TOUCH HIM!" CRIED THE IDIOT, FALLING BACK AND +SHUDDERING AS WITH A STRONG SPASM; "HE'S BLOODY!"--Chap. iii.] + +[Illustration: "IF I AM EVER," SAID MRS. V.,--NOT SCOLDING, BUT IN A +SORT OF MONOTONOUS REMONSTRANCE--"IN SPIRITS, IF I AM EVER CHEERFUL, IF +I AM EVER MORE THAN USUALLY DISPOSED TO BE TALKATIVE AND COMFORTABLE, +THIS IS THE WAY I AM TREATED"--Chap. vii.] + +[Illustration: THOSE LIPS WITHIN SIM'S REACH FROM DAY TO DAY, AND YET SO +FAR OFF--Chap. iv.] + +[Illustration: "CHESTER," SAID MR. HAREDALE AFTER A SHORT SILENCE, +DURING WHICH HE HAD EYED HIS SMILING FACE FROM TIME TO TIME INTENTLY, +"YOU HAVE THE HEAD AND HEART OF AN EVIL SPIRIT IN ALL MATTERS OF +DECEPTION"--Chap. xii.] + +[Illustration: "HE MELTS, I THINK. HE GOES LIKE A DROP OF FROTH. YOU +LOOK AT HIM, AND THERE HE IS. YOU LOOK AT HIM AGAIN, AND--THERE HE +ISN'T"--Chap. x.] + +[Illustration: FATHER AND SON--Chap. xv.] + +[Illustration: "COME, COME, MASTER," CRIED THE FELLOW, URGED ON BY THE +LOOKS OF HIS COMRADES, AND SLAPPING HIM ON THE SHOULDER; "BE MORE +COMPANIONABLE AND COMMUNICATIVE. BE MORE THE GENTLEMAN IN THIS GOOD +COMPANY"--Chap. xvi.] + +[Illustration: WITH THAT HE ADVANCED, AND BENDING DOWN OVER THE +PROSTRATE FORM, SOFTLY TURNED BACK THE HEAD AND LOOKED INTO THE +FACE--Chap. xvii.] + +[Illustration: SHE SAT HERE, THOUGHTFUL AND APART, UNTIL THEIR TIME WAS +OUT--Chap. xxv.] + +[Illustration: EMMA HAREDALE AND DOLLY VARDEN--Chap. xx.] + +[Illustration: "HUFF OR NO HUFF," SAID MR. TAPPERTIT, DETAINING HER BY +THE WRIST. "WHAT DO YOU MEAN, JEZEBEL! WHAT WERE YOU GOING TO SAY! +ANSWER ME!"--Chap. xxii.] + +[Illustration: HOW THE ACCOMPLISHED GENTLEMAN SPENT THE EVENING IN THE +MIDST OF A DAZZLING AND BRILLIANT CIRCLE--Chap. xxiv.] + +[Illustration: NOW HE WOULD CALL TO HER FROM THE TOPMOST BRANCH OF SOME +HIGH TREE BY THE ROADSIDE--Chap. xxv.] + +[Illustration: "I BEG PARDON--DO I ADDRESS MISS HAREDALE!"--Chap. +xxix.] + +[Illustration: FINISHED BY DRIVING HIM WITH SURPRISING SWIFTNESS AGAINST +A HEAP OF SPITTOONS IN ONE CORNER--Chap. xxx.] + +[Illustration: LORD GEORGE GORDON LEAVING THE MAYPOLE--Chap. xxxvii.] + +[Illustration: "IF THEY'RE A DREAM," SAID SIM, "LET SCULPTURES HAVE SUCH +WISIONS, AND CHISEL'EM OUT WHEN THEY WAKE. THIS IS REALITY. SLEEP HAS NO +SUCH LIMBS AS THEM"--Chap. xxxi.] + +[Illustration: "HA, HA!" ROARED THE FELLOW, SMITING HIS LEG; "FOR A +GENTLEMAN AS 'ULL SAY A PLEASANT THING IN A PLEASANT WAY, GIVE ME MUSTER +GASHFORD AGIN ALL LONDON AND WESTMINSTER!"--Chap. xxxvii.] + +[Illustration: A NICE TRIO--Chap. xxxix.] + +[Illustration: GABRIEL VARDEN--Chap. xii.] + +[Illustration: "HE RETORT!" CRIED HAREDALE. "LOOK YOU HERE, MY LORD. DO +YOU KNOW THIS MAN!"--Chap. xliii.] + +[Illustration: "IN THE NAME OF GOD NO!" SHRIEKED THE WIDOW, DARTING +FORWARD. "BARNABY--MY LORD--SEE--HE'LL COME BACK--BARNABY--BARNABY!"--Chap. +xlviii.] + +[Illustration: "A BRAVE EVENING, MOTHER! IF WE HAD CHINKING IN OUR +POCKETS BUT A FEW SPECKS OF THAT GOLD WHICH IS PILED UP YONDER IN THE +SKY, WE SHOULD BE RICH FOR LIFE"--Chap. xlv.] + +[Illustration: THEN SEATING HIMSELF UNDER A SPREADING HONEYSUCKLE, AND +STRETCHING HIS LEGS ACROSS THE THRESHOLD SO THAT NO PERSON COULD PASS IN +OR OUT WITHOUT HIS KNOWLEDGE, HE TOOK FROM HIS POCKET A PIPE, FLINT, +STEEL, AND TINDER-BOX, AND BEGAN TO SMOKE--Chap. xlv.] + +[Illustration: THE POLE SWEPT THE AIR ABOVE THE PEOPLE'S HEADS, AND THE +MAN'S SADDLE WAS EMPTY IN AN INSTANT--Chap. xlix.] + +[Illustration: IT FLITTED ONWARD, AND WAS GONE--Chap. l.] + +[Illustration: "YOU HAVE BEEN DRINKING," SAID THE LOCKSMITH--Chap. li.] + +[Illustration: FLUNG ITSELF UPON THE FOREMOST ONE, KNELT DOWN UPON ITS +BREAST, AND CLUTCHED ITS THROAT WITH BOTH HANDS--Chap. lvi.] + +[Illustration: PUTTING HIS STAFF ACROSS HIS KNEES IN CASE OF ALARM OR +SURPRISE, SUMMONED GRIP TO DINNER--Chap. lvii.] + +[Illustration: LOOKED MOODILY ON AS SHE FLEW TO MISS HAREDALE'S +SIDE--Chap. lix.] + +[Illustration: "WILL YOU COME?" + +"I!" SAID THE LORD MAYOR MOST EMPHATICALLY. "CERTAINLY NOT"--Chap. +lxi.] + +[Illustration: "STOP!" CRIED THE LOCKSMITH, IN A VOICE THAT MADE THEM +FALTER--PRESENTING, AS HE SPOKE, A GUN. "LET AN OLD MAN DO THAT. YOU CAN +SPARE HIM BETTER"--Chap. lxiii.] + +[Illustration: THE BURNING OF NEWGATE--Chap. lxiv.] + +[Illustration: "NO OFFENCE, NO OFFENCE," SAID THAT PERSONAGE IN A +CONCILIATORY TONE, AS HUGH STOPPED IN HIS DRAUGHT AND EYED HIM, WITH NO +PLEASANT LOOK FROM HEAD TO FOOT--Chap. lxix.] + +[Illustration: "TENDER-HEARTED!" ECHOED DENNIS. "TENDER-HEARTED! LOOK AT +THIS MAN. DO YOU CALL THIS CONSTITOOTIONAL! DO YOU SEE HIM SHOT THROUGH +AND THROUGH, INSTEAD OF BEING WORKED OFF LIKE A BRITON! DAMME IF I KNOW +WHICH PARTY TO SIDE WITH"--Chap. lxix.] + +[Illustration: "YOU OUGHT TO BE THE BEST INSTEAD OF THE WORST," SAID +HUGH, STOPPING BEFORE HIM. "HA, HA, HA! SEE THE HANGMAN WHEN IT COMES +HOME TO HIM!"--Chap. lxxvi.] + +[Illustration: "I SHALL BLESS YOUR NAME," SOBBED THE LOCKSMITH'S LITTLE +DAUGHTER, "AS LONG AS I LIVE"--Chap. lxxii.] + +[Illustration: SAT THE UNHAPPY AUTHOR OF ALL--LORD GEORGE GORDON--Chap. +lxxiii.] + +[Illustration: HE ROSE FROM HIS BED WITH A HEAVY SIGH, AND WRAPPED +HIMSELF IN HIS MORNING GOWN. "SO SHE KEPT HER WORD," HE SAID, "AND WAS +CONSTANT TO HER THREAT!"--Chap. lxxv.] + +[Illustration: THE LOCKSMITH'S RUDDY FACE AND BURLY FORM COULD BE +DESCRIED, BEATING ABOUT AS THOUGH HE WAS STRUGGLING WITH A ROUGH +SEA--Chap. lxxix.] + +[Illustration: RECLINING, IN AN EASY ATTITUDE, WITH HIS BACK AGAINST A +TREE, AND CONTEMPLATING THE RUIN WITH AN EXPRESSION OF PLEASURE--Chap. +lxxxi.] + +[Illustration: RAISING HIMSELF UPON HIS HANDS, HE GAZED AT HIM FOR AN +INSTANT WITH SCORN AND HATRED IN HIS LOOK--Chap. lxxxi.] + +[Illustration: GRIP THE RAVEN--Chap. the last.] + + + + +AMERICAN NOTES + +[Illustration] + +TEN ILLUSTRATIONS BY A. B. FROST + + +[Illustration: "RATHER A HEAVY SEA ON, SIR, AND A HEAD WIND"--Chap. ii]. + +[Illustration: RAILWAY DIALOGUE--Chap. v.] + +[Illustration: WHEN SUDDENLY THE LIVELY HERO DASHES IN TO THE +RESCUE--Chap. vi.] + +[Illustration: IN THE WHITE HOUSE--Chap. vii] + +[Illustration: IN THE CABIN OF THE CANAL BOAT--Chap. x.] + +[Illustration: EMIGRANTS--Chap. xi.] + +[Illustration: "NOT YET AWHILE, SIR, NOT YET"--Chap. xiii.] + +[Illustration: AND HAVING HIS WET PIPE PRESENTED TO HIM, ETC.--Chap. +xv.] + +[Illustration: AS THE COACH STOPS A GENTLEMAN IN A STRAW HAT LOOKS OUT +OF THE WINDOW--Chap. xiv.] + + + + +THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT + +[Illustration] + +FIFTY-NINE ILLUSTRATIONS BY FRED BARNARD + +[Illustration: "I SEE YOU," CRIED MISS PECKSNIFF TO THE IDEAL INFLICTOR +OF A RUNAWAY KNOCK, "YOU'LL CATCH IT; SIR!"--Chap. ii.] + +[Illustration: MR. PECKSNIFF, LOOKING SWEETLY OVER THE HALF-DOOR OF THE +PAR, AND INTO THE VISTA OF SNUG PRIVACY BEYOND, MURMURED, "GOOD EVENING, +MRS. LUPIN"--Chap. iii.] + +[Illustration: "WE WILL SAY, IF YOU PLEASE," ADDED MR. PECKSNIFF, WITH +GREAT TENDERNESS OF MANNER, "THAT IT ARISES FROM A COLD IN THE HEAD, OR +IS ATTRIBUTABLE TO SNUFF, OR SMELLING SALTS, OR ONIONS, OR ANYTHING BUT +THE REAL CAUSE"--Chap. iii.] + +[Illustration: MR. PECKSNIFF IS INTRODUCED TO A RELATIVE BY MR. +TIGG--Chap. iv.] + +[Illustration: "HE TURNED A WHIMSICAL FACE AND VERY MERRY PAIR OF BLUE +EYES ON MR. PINCH."--Chap. v.] + +[Illustration: "LET US BE MERRY." HERE HE TOOK A CAPTAIN'S +BISCUIT--Chap. v.] + +[Illustration: "STILL A-BED," REPLIED THE BOY; "I WISH THEY WOS STILL +A-BED. THEY'RE VERY NOISY A-BED; ALL CALLING FOR THEIR BOOTS AT +ONCE"--Chap. viii.] + +[Illustration: "OH CHIV, CHIV," MURMURED MR. TIGG, "YOU HAVE A NOBLY +INDEPENDENT NATURE, CHIV"--Chap. vii.] + +[Illustration: "YOU'RE A PAIR OF WHITTINGTONS, GENTS, WITHOUT THE CAT, +... MY NAME IS TIGG; HOW DO YOU DO?"--Chap. vii.] + +[Illustration: "I SAY--THERE'S FOWLS TO-MORROW, NOT SKINNY ONES. OH +NO!"--Chap. ix.] + +[Illustration: "DO NOT REPINE, MY FRIENDS," SAID MR. PECKSNIFF, +TENDERLY. "DO NOT WEEP FOR ME. IT IS CHRONIC"--Chap. ix.] + +[Illustration: "WE SOMETIMES VENTURE TO CONSIDER HER RATHER A FINE +FIGURE, SIR. SPEAKING AS AN ARTIST, I MAY PERHAPS BE PERMITTED TO +SUGGEST, THAT ITS OUTLINE IS GRACEFUL AND CORRECT"--Chap. x.] + +[Illustration: THE DOOR OF A SMALL GLASS OFFICE, WHICH WAS PARTITIONED +OFF FROM THE REST OF THE ROOM, WAS SLOWLY OPENED, AND A LITTLE +BLEAR-EYED, WEAZEN-FACED, ANCIENT MAN CAME CREEPING OUT.--Chap. xi.] + +[Illustration: "STAND OFF FOR A MOMENT, TOM," CRIED THE OLD PUPIL, ... +"LET ME LOOK AT YOU! JUST THE SAME! NOT A BIT CHANGED!"--Chap. xii.] + +[Illustration: "I'M GOING UP," OBSERVED THE DRIVER; "HOUNSLOW, TEN MILES +THIS SIDE LONDON"--Chap. xiii.] + +[Illustration: STUCK HIS HANDS IN HIS SKIRT POCKETS AND SWAGGERED ROUND +THE CORNER.--Chap. xiii.] + +[Illustration: SEEING THAT THERE WAS NO ONE NEAR, AND THAT MARK WAS +STILL INTENT UPON THE FOG, HE NOT ONLY LOOKED AT HER LIPS, BUT KISSED +THEM INTO THE BARGAIN--Chap. xiv.] + +[Illustration: ON BOARD THE "SCREW"--Chap. xv.] + +[Illustration: "IT IS IN SUCH ENLIGHTENED MEANS," SAID A VOICE ALMOST IN +MARTIN'S EAR, "THAT THE BUBBLING PASSIONS OF MY COUNTRY FIND A +VENT"--Chap. xvi.] + +[Illustration: "YOU'RE THE PLEASANTEST FELLOW I HAVE SEEN YET," SAID +MARTIN, CLAPPING HIM ON THE BACK, "AND GIVE ME A BETTER APPETITE THAN +BITTERS"--Chap. xvi.] + +[Illustration: JINIRAL BLADDOCK!--Chap. xvii.] + +[Illustration: "MATTER!" CRIED THE VOICE OF MR. PECKSNIFF, AS PECKSNIFF +IN THE FLESH SMILED AMIABLY UPON HIM. "THE MATTER, MR. JONAS!"--Chap. +xviii.] + +[Illustration: "WELL, MRS. GAMP, AND HOW ARE _you!_ MRS. GAMP," SAID THE +GENTLEMAN, IN A VOICE AS SOFT AS HIS STEP--Chap. xix.] + +[Illustration: "OH! I DON'T MIND YOUR PINCHING," GRINNED JONAS, "A +BIT"--Chap. xx.] + +[Illustration: "I WAS MERELY REMARKING, GENTLEMEN--THOUGH IT'S A POINT +OF VERY LITTLE IMPORT--THAT THE QUEEN OF ENGLAND DOES NOT HAPPEN TO LIVE +IN THE TOWER OF LONDON"--Chap. xxi.] + +[Illustration: "WELL, SIR!" SAID THE CAPTAIN PUTTING HIS HAT A LITTLE +MORE ON ONE SIDE, FOR IT WAS RATHER TIGHT IN THE CROWN: "YOU'RE QUITE A +PUBLIC MAN I CALC'LATE"--Chap. xxii.] + +[Illustration: HE FLOURISHED HIS STICK OVER TOM'S HEAD; BUT IN A MOMENT +IT WAS SPINNING HARMLESSLY IN THE AIR, AND JONAS HIMSELF LAY SPRAWLING +IN THE DITCH--Chap. xxiv.] + +[Illustration: "LOOK ABOUT YOU," HE SAID, POINTING TO THE GRAVES; "AND +REMEMBER THAT FROM YOUR BRIDAL HOUR TO THE DAY WHICH SEES YOU BROUGHT AS +LOW AS THESE, AND LAID IN SUCH A BED, THERE WILL BE NO APPEAL AGAINST +HIM!"--Chap. xxiv.] + +[Illustration: "WHETHER I SICKS OR MONTHLIES, MA'AM ... I DO REQUIRE IT, +WHICH I MAKES CONFESSION, TO BE BROUGHT REG'LAR AND DRAW'D MILD"--Chap. +xxv.] + +[Illustration: "THERE'S NOTHIN' HE DON'T KNOW; THAT'S MY OPINION," +OBSERVED MRS. GAMP. "ALL THE WICKEDNESS OF THE WORLD IS PRINT TO +HIM"--Chap. xxvi.] + +[Illustration: THE SPIDER AND THE FLY--Chap. xxvii.] + +[Illustration: "TIMES IS CHANGED, AIN'T THEY! I SAY, HOW YOU'VE +GROWED!"--Chap. xxviii.] + +[Illustration: RUSTLING AMONG LAST YEAR'S LEAVES, WHOSE SCENT WOKE +MEMORY OF THE PAST, THE PLACID PECKSNIFF STROLLED--Chap. xxx.] + +[Illustration: "I SAY," CRIED TOM, IN GREAT EXCITEMENT, "HE IS A +SCOUNDREL AND A VILLAIN! I DON'T CARE WHO HE IS, I SAY HE IS A +DOUBLE-DYED AND MOST INTOLERABLE VILLAIN"--Chap. xxxi.] + +[Illustration: "MR. PINCH," SAID MR. PECKSNIFF, SHAKING HIS HEAD, "OH, +MR. PINCH! I WONDER HOW YOU CAN LOOK ME IN THE FACE!"--Chap. xxxi.] + +[Illustration: ON THE FOURTEENTH NIGHT HE KISSED MISS PECKSNIFF'S +SNUFFERS, IN THE PASSAGE, WHEN SHE WENT UPSTAIRS TO BED: MEANING TO HAVE +KISSED HER HAND, BUT MISSING IT--Chap. xxii.] + +[Illustration: "Jolly"--Chap. xxxiii.] + +[Illustration: "WHY, WHAT THE 'TARNAL!" CRIED THE CAPTAIN. "WELL! I DO +ADMIRE AT THIS, I DO!"--Chap. xxxiv.] + +[Illustration: MR. PECKSNIFF, PLACID, CALM, BUT PROUD. HONESTLY PROUD +... GENTLY TRAVELLING ACROSS THE DISC, AS IF HE WERE A FIGURE IN A MAGIC +LANTERN--Chap. xxxv.] + +[Illustration: "NO RIGHT!" CRIED THE BRASS AND COPPER FOUNDER--Chap. +xxxvi.] + +[Illustration: MR. NADGETT PRODUCES THE RESULT OF HIS PRIVATE +INQUIRIES--Chap. xxxviii.] + +[Illustration: "I AM GOING TO BEGIN, TOM. DON'T YOU WONDER WHY I BUTTER +THE INSIDE OF THE BASIN!" SAID HIS BUSY LITTLE SISTER, "EH, TOM?"--Chap. +xxxix.] + +[Illustration: "I CAN'T SAY; IT'S IMPOSSIBLE TO TELL. I REALLY HAVE NO +IDEA. BUT," SAID FIPS, TAKING OFF A VERY DEEP IMPRESSION OF THE +WAFER-STAMP UPON THE CALF OF HIS LEFT LEG, AND LOOKING STEADILY AT TOM, +"I DON'T KNOW THAT IT'S A MATTER OF MUCH CONSEQUENCE"--Chap. xxxix.] + +[Illustration: MRS. GAMP CREATES A SENSATION WITH HER UMBRELLA--Chap. +xl.] + +[Illustration: "NOW, COULD YOU CUT A MANS THROAT WITH SUCH A THING AS +THIS!" DEMANDED JONAS--Chap. xli.] + +[Illustration: AWOKE TO FIND JONAS STANDING AT HIS BEDSIDE WATCHING HIM. +AND THAT VERY DOOR WIDE OPEN.--Chap. xlii.] + +[Illustration: FAMILIAR FACES--Chap. xliii.] + +[Illustration: "OH FIE, FIE!" CRIED MR. PECKSNIFF. "YOU ARE VERY +PLEASANT. THAT I AM SURE YOU DON'T! THAT I AM SURE YOU DON'T! HOW CAN +YOU, YOU KNOW"--Chap. xliv.] + +[Illustration: MR. MODDLE, WITH A DARK LOOK, REPLIED: "THE DRIVERS WON'T +DO IT"--Chap. xlvi.] + +[Illustration: MRS. GAMP FAVOURS THE COMPANY WITH AN EXHIBITION OF +PROFESSIONAL SKILL--Chap. xlvi.] + +[Illustration: DONE--Chap. xlvii.] + +[Illustration: "SPEAK OUT!" SAID MARTIN, "AND SPEAK THE TRUTH"--Chap. +xlvii.] + +[Illustration: THEN MRS. GAMP ROSE--MORALLY AND PHYSICALLY ROSE--AND +DENOUNCED HER--Chap. xlix.] + +[Illustration: BROTHER AND SISTER--Chap. l.] + +[Illustration: HE STARTED BACK AS HIS EYES MET THOSE, STANDING IN AN +ANGLE OF THE WALL, AND STARING AT HIM. HIS NECKERCHIEF WAS OFF; HIS FACE +WAS ASHY PALE--Chap. li.] + +[Illustration: THE FALL OF PECKSNIFF--Chap. lii.] + +[Illustration: "YES SIR," RETURNED MISS PECKSNIFF, MODESTLY, "I AM. +I--MY DRESS IS RATHER--REALLY MRS. TODGERS!"--Chap. liv.] + +[Illustration: TOM'S REVERIE--Chap. liv.] + + + + +CHRISTMAS BOOKS + +[Illustration] + +TWENTY-EIGHT ILLUSTRATIONS BY FRED BARNARD + + +[Illustration: "IT'S NOT CONVENIENT," SAID SCROOGE, "AND IT'S NOT FAIR. +IF I WAS TO STOP HALF-A-CROWN FOR IT, YOU'D THINK YOURSELF ILL USED, +I'LL BE BOUND!"--_A Christmas Carol_, Stave i.] + +[Illustration: MARLEY'S GHOST--_A Christmas Carol_, Stave i.] + +[Illustration: HE HAD BEEN TIM'S BLOOD-HORSE ALL THE WAY FROM CHURCH, +AND HAD COME HOME RAMPANT--_A Christmas Carol_, Stave iii.] + +[Illustration: THIS PLEASANTRY WAS RECEIVED WITH A GENERAL LAUGH--_A +Christmas Carol_, Stave iv.] + +[Illustration: "WHAT DO YOU CALL THIS!" SAID JOE, "BED CURTAINS!"--_A +Christmas Carol_, Stave iv.] + +[Illustration: "NO," SAID TOBY, AFTER ANOTHER SNIFF. "IT'S--IT'S +MELLOWER THAN POLONIES. IT'S VERY NICE. IT IMPROVES EVERY MOMENT. IT'S +TOO DECIDED FOR TROTTERS. AN'T IT!"--_The Chimes_, First Quarter] + +[Illustration: THE POOR MAN'S FRIEND.--_The Chimes_, Second Quarter] + +[Illustration: "NEVER MORE, MEG; NEVER MORE! HERE! HERE! CLOSE TO YOU, +HOLDING TO YOU, FEELING YOUR DEAR BREATH UPON MY FACE!"--_The Chimes_, +Third Quarter] + +[Illustration: "WHITHER THOU GOEST, I CAN NOT GO; WHERE THOU LODGEST, I +DO NOT LODGE; THY PEOPLE ARE NOT MY PEOPLE; NOR THY GOD, MY GOD!"--_The +Chimes_, Third Quarter] + +[Illustration: "YOU'RE IN SPIRITS TUGBY, MY DEAR," OBSERVED HIS WIFE.... +"NO," SAID TUGBY. "NO; NOT PARTICULAR. I'M A LITTLE ELEVATED. THE +MUFFINS CAME SO PAT!"--_The Chimes_, Fourth Quarter] + +[Illustration: JOHN PEERYBINGLE'S FIRESIDE--_The Cricket on the Hearth_, +Chirp the first] + +[Illustration: "DID ITS MOTHER MAKE IT UP A BEDS, THEN!" CRIED MISS +SLOWBOY TO THE BABY; "AND DID ITS HAIR GROW BROWN AND CURLY WHEN ITS +CAPS WAS LIFTED OFF, AND FRIGHTEN IT, A PRECIOUS PETS, A SITTING BY THE +FIRES!"--_The Cricket on the Hearth_, Chirp the first] + +[Illustration: "THE EXTENT TO WHICH HE'S WINKING AT THIS MOMENT!" +WHISPERED CALEB TO HIS DAUGHTER. "OH, MY GRACIOUS!"--_The Cricket on the +Hearth_, Chirp the second] + +[Illustration: SUFFERING HIM TO CLASP HER ROUND THE WAIST, AS THEY MOVED +SLOWLY DOWN THE DIM WOODEN GALLERY--_The Cricket on the Hearth_, Chirp +the second] + +[Illustration: AFTER DINNER CALEB SANG THE SONG ABOUT THE SPARKLING +BOWL--_The Cricket on the Hearth_, Chirp the third] + +[Illustration: THE PLOUGHSHARE STILL TURNED UP, FROM TIME TO TIME, SOME +RUSTY BITS OF METAL, BUT IT WAS HARD TO SAY WHAT USE THEY HAD EVER +SERVED, AND THOSE WHO FOUND THEM WONDERED AND DISPUTED--_The Battle of +Life_, Part the first] + +[Illustration: "BY THE BYE," AND HE LOOKED INTO THE PRETTY FACE, STILL +CLOSE TO HIS, "I SUPPOSE IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY"--_The Battle of Life_, Part +the first] + +[Illustration: "I THINK IT WILL BE BETTER NOT TO HEAR THIS, MR. CRAGGS!" +SAID SNITCHEY, LOOKING AT HIM ACROSS THE CLIENT. "I THINK NOT," SAID +CRAGGS--BOTH LISTENING ATTENTIVELY--_The Battle of Life_, Part the +second] + +[Illustration: "WHAT IS THE MATTER!" HE EXCLAIMED. "I DON'T KNOW. I--I +AM AFRAID TO THINK. GO BACK. HARK!"--_The Battle of Life_, Part the +second] + +[Illustration: GUESSED HALF ALOUD, "MILK AND WATER," "MONTHLY WARNING," +"MICE AND WALNUTS"--AND COULDN'T APPROACH HER MEANING--_The Battle of +Life_, Part the third] + +[Illustration: "MERRY AND HAPPY, WAS IT?" ASKED THE CHEMIST IN A LOW +VOICE. "MERRY AND HAPPY OLD MAN!"--_The Haunted Man_, chap. i.] + +[Illustration: IT ROVED FROM DOOR-STEP TO DOOR-STEP, IN THE ARMS OF +LITTLE JOHNNY TETTERBY, AND LAGGED HEAVILY AT THE REAR OF TROOPS OF +JUVENILES WHO FOLLOWED THE TUMBLERS, ETC.--_The Haunted Man_, chap. +ii.] + +[Illustration: "MR. REDLAW!" HE EXCLAIMED, AND STARTED UP--_The Haunted +Man_, chap. ii.] + +[Illustration: "I'M NOT A-GOING TO TAKE YOU THERE. LET ME BE OR I'LL +HEAVE SOME FIRE AT YOU!"--_The Haunted Man_, chap. ii.] + +[Illustration: "YOU SPEAK TO ME OF WHAT IS LYING HERE," THE PHANTOM +INTERPOSED, AND POINTED WITH ITS FINGER TO THE BOY--_The Haunted Man_, +chap. iii.] + +[Illustration: "WHAT A WONDERFUL MAN YOU ARE, FATHER! HOW ARE YOU +FATHER? ARE YOU REALLY PRETTY HEARTY, THOUGH?" SAID WILLIAM, SHAKING +HANDS WITH HIM AGAIN, AND PATTING HIM AGAIN, AND RUBBING HIM GENTLY DOWN +AGAIN--_The Haunted Man_, chap. iii.] + +[Illustration: THE SEDATE FACE IN THE PORTRAIT, WITH THE BEARD AND RUFF, +LOOKED DOWN AT THEM--_The Haunted Man_, chap. iii.] + + + + +PICTURES FROM ITALY + +[Illustration] + +EIGHT ILLUSTRATIONS BY GORDON THOMSON + + +[Illustration: THE MALLE POST--_Going Through France_] + +[Illustration: PLAYING AT MORA--_Genoa and its Neighbourhood_] + +[Illustration: THE CHURCH AND THE WORLD--_To Parma, Modena, and +Bologna_] + +[Illustration: AN ITALIAN DREAM] + +[Illustration: A SKETCH AT THE CARNIVAL--_Rome_] + +[Illustration: ARTISTS' MODELS--_Rome_] + +[Illustration: PRIESTS AND MONKS--_A Rapid Diorama_] + + + + +DEALINGS WITH THE FIRM OF DOMBEY AND SON WHOLESALE, RETAIL AND FOR +EXPORTATION + +[Illustration] + +SIXTY-TWO ILLUSTRATIONS BY FRED BARNARD + + +[Illustration: A THOROUGH CONTRAST IN ALL RESPECTS TO MR. DOMBEY--Chap. +ii.] + +[Illustration: "I MAY BE FOND OF PENNYWINKLES, MRS. RICHARDS, BUT IT +DON'T FOLLOW THAT I'M TO HAVE 'EM FOR TEA"--Chap. iii.] + +[Illustration: "SO HERE'S TO DOMBEY--AND SON--AND DAUGHTER"--Chap. iv.] + +[Illustration: MR. DOMBEY DISMOUNTING FIRST TO HELP THE LADIES +OUT--Chap. v.] + +[Illustration: "WHY, WHAT CAN YOU WANT WITH DOMBEY AND SON'S!" ... "TO +KNOW THE WAY THERE, IF YOU PLEASE."--Chap. vi.] + +[Illustration: FLORENCE OBEYED AS FAST AS HER TREMBLING HANDS WOULD +ALLOW; KEEPING, ALL THE WHILE, A FRIGHTENED EYE ON MRS. BROWN--Chap. +vi.] + +[Illustration: DOMBEY AND SON--Chap. viii.] + +[Illustration: LISTENING TO THE SEA--Chap. viii.] + +[Illustration: AND WHEN HE GOT THERE, SAT DOWN IN A CHAIR, AND FELL INTO +A SILENT FIT OF LAUGHTER WITH WHICH HE WAS SOMETIMES SEIZED, AND WHICH +WAS ALWAYS PARTICULARLY AWFUL--Chap. x.] + +[Illustration: WHEN THE DOCTOR SMILED AUSPICIOUSLY AT HIS AUTHOR, OR +KNIT HIS BROWS, OR SHOOK HIS HEAD AND MADE WRY FACES AT HIM, AS MUCH AS +TO SAY, "DON'T TELL ME, SIR; I KNOW BETTER," IT WAS TERRIFIC--Chap. +xi.] + +[Illustration: "YOUR FATHER'S REGULARLY RICH, AIN'T HE!" INQUIRED MR. +TOOTS. "YES, SIR," SAID PAUL; "HE'S DOMBEY AND SON"--Chap. xii.] + +[Illustration: "YOU RESPECT NOBODY, CARKER, I THINK," SAID MR. DOMBEY. +"NO!" INQUIRED CARKER, WITH ANOTHER WIDE AND MOST FELINE SHOW OF HIS +TEETH--Chap. xiii.] + +[Illustration: DURING THIS CONVERSATION, WALTER HAD LOOKED FROM ONE +BROTHER TO THE OTHER WITH PAIN AND AMAZEMENT--Chap. xiii.] + +[Illustration: PAUL ALSO ASKED HIM, AS A PRACTICAL MAN, WHAT HE THOUGHT +ABOUT KING ALFRED'S IDEA OF MEASURING TIME BY THE BURNING OF CANDLES, TO +WHICH THE WORKMAN REPLIED THAT HE THOUGHT IT WOULD BE THE RUIN OF THE +CLOCK TRADE IF IT WAS TO COME UP AGAIN--Chap. xiv.] + +[Illustration: THE BREAKING-UP PARTY AT DOCTOR BLIMBER'S--Chap. xiv.] + +[Illustration: BEFORE THEY HAD GONE VERY FAR, THEY ENCOUNTERED A WOMAN +SELLING FLOWERS: WHEN THE CAPTAIN, STOPPING SHORT, AS IF STRUCK BY A +HAPPY IDEA, MADE A PURCHASE OF THE LARGEST BUNDLE IN HER BASKET--Chap. +xv.] + +[Illustration: ALL THIS TIME, THE BEREAVED FATHER HAS NOT BEEN SEEN EVEN +BY HIS ATTENDANT; FOR HE SITS IN A CORNER OF HIS OWN DARK ROOM--Chap. +xviii.] + +[Illustration: IT WAS REPEATED OFTEN--VERY OFTEN, IN THE SHADOWY +SOLITUDE; AND BROKEN MURMURS OF THE STRAIN STILL TREMBLED ON THE KEYS, +WHEN THE SWEET VOICE WAS HUSHED IN TEARS--Chap. xviii.] + +[Illustration: TOOK UNCLE SOL'S SNUFF-COLOURED LAPPELS, ONE IN EACH +HAND; KISSED HIM ON THE CHEEK, ETC.--Chap. xix.] + +[Illustration: "TAKE ADVICE FROM PLAIN OLD JOE, AND NEVER EDUCATE THAT +SORT OF PEOPLE, SIR," RETURNED THE MAJOR. "DAMME, SIR, IT NEVER DOES! IT +ALWAYS FAILS!"--Chap. xx.] + +[Illustration: WITHERS THE WAN, AT THIS PERIOD, HANDING ROUND THE TEA, +MR. DOMBEY AGAIN ADDRESSED HIMSELF TO EDITH--Chap. xxi.] + +[Illustration: "DO YOU KNOW THAT THERE IS SOME ONE HERE!" SHE RETURNED, +NOW LOOKING AT HIM STEADILY--Chap. xxxvi.] + +[Illustration: "LET YOU ALONE!" SAID MR. CARKER. "WHAT! I HAVE GOT YOU, +HAVE I!" THERE WAS NO DOUBT OF THAT, AND TIGHTLY TOO. "YOU DOG," SAID +MR. CARKER, THROUGH HIS SET JAWS, "I'LL STRANGLE YOU!"--Chap. xxii.] + +[Illustration: "WHAT DO YOU WANT WITH CAPTAIN CUTTLE, I SHOULD WISH TO +KNOW!" SAID MRS. MACSTINGER. "SHOULD YOU! THEN I'M SORRY THAT YOU WON'T +BE SATISFIED," RETURNED MISS NIPPER--Chap. xxiii.] + +[Illustration: THE FLOWERS WERE SCATTERED ON THE GROUND LIKE DUST; THE +EMPTY HANDS WERE SPREAD UPON THE FACE; AND ORPHANED FLORENCE, SHRINKING +DOWN UPON THE GROUND, WEPT LONG AND BITTERLY--Chap. xxiv.] + +[Illustration: THE CAPTAIN'S VOICE WAS SO TREMENDOUS, AND HE CAME OUT OF +HIS CORNER WITH SUCH WAY ON HIM, THAT ROB RETREATED BEFORE HIM INTO +ANOTHER CORNER; HOLDING OUT THE KEYS AND PACKET, TO PREVENT HIMSELF FROM +BEING RUN DOWN--Chap. xxv.] + +[Illustration: "GO AND MEET HER!"--Chap. xxvii.] + +[Illustration: "THANK YOU. I HAVE NO DESIRE TO READ IT," WAS HER +ANSWER--Chap. xxvi.] + +[Illustration: "A CHILD!" SAID EDITH, LOOKING AT HER. "WHEN WAS I A +CHILD! WHAT CHILDHOOD DID YOU EVER LEAVE TO ME!"--Chap. xxviii.] + +[Illustration: LUCRETIA TOX'S REVERIE--Chap. xxix.] + +[Illustration: ONE OF THE VERY TALL YOUNG MEN ON HIRE, WHOSE ORGAN OF +VENERATION WAS IMPERFECTLY DEVELOPED, THRUSTING HIS TONGUE INTO HIS +CHEEK, FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT OF THE OTHER VERY TALL YOUNG MAN ON HIRE, +AS THE COUPLE TURNED INTO THE DINING-ROOM--Chap. xxx.] + +[Illustration: SHE STARTED, STOPPED, AND LOOKED IN--Chap. xxx.] + +[Illustration: IN A FIRM, FREE HAND, THE BRIDE SUBSCRIBES HER NAME IN +THE REGISTER--Chap. xxxi.] + +[Illustration: "GO," SAID THE GOOD-HUMOURED MANAGER, GATHERING UP HIS +SKIRTS, AND STANDING ASTRIDE ON THE HEARTH-RUG, "LIKE A SENSIBLE FELLOW, +AND LET US HAVE NO TURNING OUT, OR ANY SUCH VIOLENT MEASURES"--Chap. +xxxii.] + +[Illustration: AND READING SOFTLY TO HIMSELF, IN THE LITTLE BACK +PARLOUR, AND STOPPING NOW AND THEN TO WIPE HIS EYES, THE CAPTAIN, IN A +TRUE AND SIMPLE SPIRIT, COMMITTED WALTER'S BODY TO THE DEEP--Chap. +xxxii.] + +[Illustration: A CERTAIN SKILFUL ACTION OF HIS FINGERS AS HE HUMMED SOME +BARS, AND BEAT TIME ON THE SEAT BESIDE HIM, SEEMED TO DENOTE THE +MUSICIAN--Chap. xxxiii.] + +[Illustration: "SHE'S COME BACK HARDER THAN SHE WENT!" CRIED THE MOTHER, +LOOKING UP IN HER FACE, AND STILL HOLDING TO HER KNEES--Chap. xxxiv.] + +[Illustration: WITHERS, MEETING HIM ON THE STAIRS, STOOD AMAZED AT THE +BEAUTY OF HIS TEETH, AND AT HIS BRILLIANT SMILE--Chap. xxxvii.] + +[Illustration: RAN SNIGGERING OFF TO GET CHANGE, AND TOSSED IT AWAY WITH +A PIEMAN--Chap. xxxviii.] + +[Illustration: "AND YOU'RE A-GOING TO DESERT YOUR COLOURS, ARE YOU, MY +LAD," SAID THE CAPTAIN, AFTER A LONG EXAMINATION OF HIS FACE--Chap. +xxxix.] + +[Illustration: MR. TOOTS REPLIES BY LAUNCHING WILDLY OUT INTO MISS +DOMBEY'S PRAISES, AND BY INSINUATIONS THAT SOMETIMES HE THINKS HE SHOULD +LIKE TO BLOW HIS BRAINS OUT--Chap. xli.] + +[Illustration: "DOMBEY," SAYS COUSIN FEENIX, "UPON MY SOUL, I AM VERY +MUCH SHOCKED TO SEE YOU ON SUCH A MELANCHOLY OCCASION"--Chap. xli.] + +[Illustration: "DO YOU CALL IT MANAGING THIS ESTABLISHMENT, MADAM," SAID +MR. DOMBEY, "TO LEAVE A PERSON LIKE THIS AT LIBERTY TO COME AND TALK TO +ME!"--Chap. xliv.] + +[Illustration: "MISS DOMBEY," RETURNED MR. TOOTS, "IF YOU'LL ONLY NAME +ONE, YOU'LL--YOU'LL GIVE ME AN APPETITE. TO WHICH," SAID MR. TOOTS, WITH +SOME SENTIMENT, "I HAVE LONG BEEN A STRANGER"--Chap. xliv.] + +[Illustration: FLUNG IT DOWN, AND TROD UPON THE GLITTERING HEAP--Chap. +xlvii.] + +[Illustration: THROWN DOWN IN A COSTLY MASS UPON THE GROUND WAS EVERY +ORNAMENT SHE HAD HAD SINCE SHE HAD BEEN HIS WIFE; EVERY DRESS SHE HAD +WORN; AND EVERYTHING SHE HAD POSSESSED--Chap. xlvii.] + +[Illustration: FLORENCE MADE A MOTION WITH HER HAND TOWARDS HIM, REELED +AND FELL UPON THE FLOOR--Chap. xlviii.] + +[Illustration: WHEN HE HAD FILLED HIS PIPE IN AN ABSOLUTE REVERIE OF +SATISFACTION, FLORENCE LIGHTED IT FOR HIM--Chap. xlix.] + +[Illustration: BLESSED TWILIGHT STEALING ON, AND SHADING HER SO +SOOTHINGLY AND GRAVELY AS SHE FALLS ASLEEP, LIKE A HUSHED CHILD, UPON +THE BOSOM SHE HAS CLUNG TO!--Chap. l.] + +[Illustration: IT APPEARS THAT HE MET EVERYBODY CONCERNED IN THE LATE +TRANSACTION, EVERYWHERE, AND SAID TO THEM, "SIR," OR "MADAM," AS THE +CASE WAS, "WHY DO YOU LOOK SO PALE!" AT WHICH EACH SHUDDERED FROM HEAD +TO FOOT, AND SAID, "OH, PERCH!" AND RAN AWAY--Chap. li.] + +[Illustration: D. I. J. O. N--Chap. lii.] + +[Illustration: STILL UPON HER KNEES, AND WITH HER EYES UPON THE +FIRE--Chap. liii.] + +[Illustration: HE SAW THE FACE CHANGE FROM ITS VINDICTIVE PASSION TO A +FAINT SICKNESS AND TERROR--Chap. lv.] + +[Illustration: AFTER THIS, HE SMOKED FOUR PIPES SUCCESSIVELY IN THE +LITTLE PARLOUR BY HIMSELF, AND WAS DISCOVERED CHUCKLING AT THE +EXPIRATION OF AS MANY HOURS--Chap. lvi.] + +[Illustration: "WY, IT'S MEAN .... THAT'S WHERE IT IS. IT'S +MEAN!"--Chap. lvi.] + +[Illustration: "JOE HAD BEEN DECEIVED, SIR, TAKEN IN, HOODWINKED, +BLINDFOLDED, BUT WAS BROAD AWAKE AGAIN, AND STARING"--Chap. lviii.] + +[Illustration: "YES, MRS. PIPCHIN, IT IS," REPLIES COOK, ADVANCING. "AND +WHAT THEN PRAY!"--Chap. lix.] + +[Illustration: "OH, MY GOD, FORGIVE ME, FOR I NEED IT VERY MUCH!"--Chap. +lix.] + +[Illustration: "NO, NO!" CRIED FLORENCE, SHRINKING BACK AS SHE ROSE UP, +AND PUTTING OUT HER HANDS TO KEEP HER OFF. "MAMMA!"--Chap. lxi.] + +[Illustration: CAPTAIN CUTTLE GIVES THEM THE LOVELY PEG--Chap. lxii.] + +[Illustration: "DEAR GRANDPAPA, WHY DO YOU CRY WHEN YOU KISS ME?"--Chap. +lxii.] + + + + +THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF DAVID COPPERFIELD + +[Illustration] + +SIXTY-ONE ILLUSTRATIONS BY FRED BARNARD + +[Illustration: PEGGOTTY SEEMED TO SWELL AND GROW IMMENSELY LARGE. I +PROPPED MY EYELIDS OPEN WITH MY TWO FOREFINGERS AND LOOKED PERSEVERINGLY +AT HER, AS SHE SAT AT WORK--Chap. ii.] + +[Illustration: "DEAD, MR. PEGGOTTY!" I HINTED, AFTER A RESPECTFUL PAUSE. + +"DROWNDEAD," SAID MR. PEGGOTTY--Chap. iii.] + +[Illustration: "THAT'S NOT IT!" SAID I, "THAT SHIP-LOOKING THING!" +"THAT'S IT, MAS'R DAVY," RETURNED HAM--Chap. iii.] + +[Illustration: AND WHEN WE CAME AT LAST TO THE FIVE THOUSAND CHEESES +(CANES HE MADE IT THAT DAY, I REMEMBER), MY MOTHER BURST OUT +CRYING--Chap. iv.] + +[Illustration: I SAW TO MY AMAZEMENT, PEGGOTTY BURST FROM A HEDGE AND +CLIMB INTO THE CART--Chap. v.] + +[Illustration: "HE KNOWS ME, AND I KNOW HIM. DO YOU KNOW ME! HEY!" SAID +MR. CREAKLE, PINCHING MY EAR WITH FEROCIOUS PLAYFULNESS--Chap. vi.] + +[Illustration: "LET HIM DENY IT," SAID STEERFORTH--Chap. vii.] + +[Illustration: "DON'T GO, STEERFORTH, IF YOU PLEASE. THESE ARE TWO +YARMOUTH BOATMEN--VERY KIND, GOOD PEOPLE--WHO ARE RELATIONS OF MY NURSE, +AND HAVE COME FROM GRAVESEND TO SEE ME"--Chap. vii.] + +[Illustration: "FATHER!" SAID MINNIE PLAYFULLY. "WHAT A PORPOISE YOU DO +GROW!"--Chap. ix.] + +[Illustration: I BEGIN LIFE ON MY OWN ACCOUNT, AND DON'T LIKE IT--Chap. +xi.] + +[Illustration: I AM PRESENTED TO MRS. MICAWBER--Chap. xi.] + +[Illustration: THE YOUNG MAN STILL REPLIED: "COME TO THE POLLIS!" AND +WAS DRAGGING ME AGAINST THE DONKEY IN A VIOLENT MANNER, AS IF THERE WERE +ANY AFFINITY BETWEEN THAT ANIMAL AND A MAGISTRATE--Chap. xii.] + +[Illustration: "OH, MY LUNGS AND LIVER, WILL YOU GO FOR +THREEPENCE!"--Chap. xiii.] + +[Illustration: MR. MICAWBER, IMPRESSING THE NAMES OF THE STREETS AND THE +SHAPES OF CORNER HOUSES UPON ME AS WE WENT ALONG, THAT I MIGHT FIND MY +WAY BACK EASILY IN THE MORNING--Chap. xi.] + +[Illustration: THE BATTLE ON THE GREEN--Chap. xiv.] + +[Illustration: SHE ALWAYS ROUSED HIM WITH A QUESTION OR CARESS--Chap. +xv.] + +[Illustration: "OH, THANK YOU, MASTER COPPERFIELD," SAID URIAH HEEP, +"FOR THAT REMARK! IT IS SO TRUE! 'UMBLE AS I AM, I KNOW IT IS SO TRUE! +OH, THANK YOU, MASTER COPPERFIELD!"--Chap. xvi.] + +[Illustration: THE DOCTOR'S WALK--Chap. xvii.] + +[Illustration: "I ASK AN INESTIMABLE PRICE FOR IT, MISS LARKINS".... +"INDEED! WHAT IS THAT!" RETURNS MISS LARKINS. "A FLOWER OF YOURS, THAT I +MAY TREASURE IT AS A MISER DOES GOLD"--Chap. xviii.] + +[Illustration: "OH, REALLY! YOU KNOW HOW IGNORANT I AM, AND THAT I ONLY +ASK FOR INFORMATION, BUT ISN'T IT ALWAYS SO! I THOUGHT THAT KIND OF LIFE +WAS ON ALL HANDS UNDERSTOOD TO BE--EH!"--Chap. XX.] + +[Illustration: PRESENTLY THEY BROUGHT HER TO THE FIRESIDE, VERY MUCH +CONFUSED, AND VERY SHY--Chap. xxi.] + +[Illustration: "THAT IS A BLACK SHADOW TO BE FOLLOWING THE GIRL," SAID +STEERFORTH, STANDING STILL; "WHAT DOES IT MEAN!"--Chap. xxii.] + +[Illustration: "TROT! MY DEAR TROT!" CRIED MY AUNT, IN A TERRIFIED +WHISPER, AND PRESSING MY ARM. "I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO"--Chap, xxiii.] + +[Illustration: AND MRS. CRUPP SAID, THANK HEAVEN SHE HAD NOW FOUND +SUMMUN SHE COULD CARE FOR--Chap. xxiii.] + +[Illustration: HAMLET'S AUNT BETRAYS THE FAMILY FAILING, AND INDULGES IN +A SOLILOQUY ON "BLOOD"--Chap. xxv.] + +[Illustration: DORA--Chap. xxvi.] + +[Illustration: "HERE," DRAWING THE CLOTH OFF WITH GREAT PRIDE AND CARE, +"ARE TWO PIECES OF FURNITURE TO COMMENCE WITH"--Chap. xxvii.] + +[Illustration: MR. MICAWBER IN HIS ELEMENT--Chap. xxviii.] + +[Illustration: HE WAS FAST ASLEEP; LYING EASILY, WITH HIS HEAD UPON HIS +ARM, AS I HAD OFTEN SEEN HIM LIE AT SCHOOL--Chap. xxix.] + +[Illustration: "GIVE ME BREATH ENOUGH," SAYS I TO MY DAUGHTER MINNIE, +"AND I'LL FIND PASSAGES, MY DEAR"--Chap. xxx] + +[Illustration: "READ IT, SIR," HE SAID, IN A LOW SHIVERING VOICE. "SLOW, +PLEASE. I DOEN'T KNOW AS I CAN UNDERSTAND"--Chap. xxxi.] + +[Illustration: "TAKE A WORD OF ADVICE, EVEN FROM THREE FOOT NOTHING, TRY +NOT TO ASSOCIATE BODILY DEFECTS WITH MENTAL, MY GOOD FRIEND, EXCEPT FOR +A SOLID REASON"--Chap. xxxii.] + +[Illustration: UNDER THE LILAC TREE--Chap. xxxiii.] + +[Illustration: I PARTED FROM HIM, POOR FELLOW, AT THE CORNER OF THE +STREET, WITH HIS GREAT KITE AT HIS BACK, A VERY MONUMENT OF HUMAN +MISERY--Chap. xxxiv.] + +[Illustration: "DEUCE TAKE THE MAN!" SAID MY AUNT STERNLY, "WHAT'S HE +ABOUT! DON'T BE GALVANIC, SIR!"--Chap. xxxv.] + +[Illustration: "I HARDLY EVER TAKE BREAKFAST, SIR," HE REPLIED WITH HIS +HEAD THROWN BACK IN AN EASY CHAIR. "I FIND IT BORES ME"--Chap. xxxvi.] + +[Illustration: "YOU HAVE HEARD MISS MURDSTONE," SAID MR. SPENLOW, +TURNING TO ME. "I BEG TO ASK MR. COPPERFIELD, IF YOU HAVE ANYTHING TO +SAY IN REPLY!"--Chap. xxxviii.] + +[Illustration: "PAPA, YOU ARE NOT WELL. COME WITH ME!"--Chap. xxxix.] + +[Illustration: I STOOD FACE TO FACE WITH MR. PEGGOTTY!--Chap. xl.] + +[Illustration: "I WONDER WHY YOU EVER FELL IN LOVE WITH ME!" SAID DORA, +BEGINNING ON ANOTHER BUTTON OF MY COAT--Chap. xli.] + +[Illustration: HE CAUGHT THE HAND IN HIS, AND WE STOOD IN THAT +CONNECTION, LOOKING AT EACH OTHER--Chap. xlii.] + +[Illustration: HOLDING THE PENS--Chap. xliv.] + +[Illustration: "THEN, I HAVE GOT IT, BOY!" SAID MR. DICK--Chap. xlv.] + +[Illustration: MR. LITTIMER TELLS HIS STORY--Chap. xlvi.] + +[Illustration: "OH, THE RIVER!" SHE CRIED PASSIONATELY. "OH, THE +RIVER!"--Chap. xlvii.] + +[Illustration: "WHEN I CAN RUN ABOUT AGAIN, AS I USED TO DO, AUNT," SAID +DORA, "I SHALL MAKE JIP RACE. HE IS GETTING QUITE SLOW AND LAZY"--Chap. +xlviii.] + +[Illustration: "AND THE NAME OF THE WHOLE ATROCIOUS MASS +IS--HEEP!"--Chap. xlix.] + +[Illustration: ROSA DARTLE SPRANG UP FROM HER SEAT: RECOILED, AND IN +RECOILING STRUCK AT HER, WITH A FACE OF SUCH MALIGNITY, SO DARKENED AND +DISFIGURED BY PASSION, THAT I HAD ALMOST THROWN MYSELF BETWEEN +THEM--Chap. l.] + +[Illustration: "APPROACH ME AGAIN, YOU--YOU--YOU HEEP OF INFAMY," GASPED +MR. MICAWBER, "AND IF YOUR HEAD IS HUMAN, I'LL BREAK IT. COME ON, COME +ON"--Chap. lii.] + +[Illustration: "IT IS MUCH BETTER AS IT IS!"--Chap. liii.] + +[Illustration: I HAVE MYSELF DIRECTED SOME ATTENTION, DURING THE PAST +WEEK, TO THE ART OF BAKING--Chap. liv.] + +[Illustration: THEY DREW HIM TO MY VERY FEET--INSENSIBLE--DEAD--Chap. +lv.] + +[Illustration: I FOUND MR. MICAWBER SITTING IN A CORNER, LOOKING DARKLY +AT THE SHERIFF'S OFFICER WHO HAD EFFECTED THE CAPTURE--Chap. lvii.] + +[Illustration: THE STORM--Chap. lv.] + +[Illustration: I WALKED UP TO WHERE HE WAS SITTING, AND SAID, "HOW DO +YOU DO, MR. CHILLIP!"--Chap. lix.] + +[Illustration: FOR AN INSTANT, A DISTRESSFUL SHADOW CROSSED HER FACE; +BUT, EVEN IN THE START IT GAVE ME, IT WAS GONE--Chap. lx.] + +[Illustration: I TOOK AGNES IN MY ARM TO THE BACK OF HER CHAIR, AND WE +BOTH LEANED OVER HER--Chap. lxii.] + +[Illustration: "IF A SHIP'S COOK THAT WAS TURNING SETTLER, MAS'R DAVY, +DIDN'T MAKE OFFERS FUR TO MARRY MRS. GUMMIDGE, I'M GORMED--AND I CAN'T +SAY NO FAIRER THAN THAT!"--Chap, lxiii.] + +[Illustration: "TROTWOOD, YOU WILL BE GLAD TO HEAR THAT I SHALL FINISH +THE MEMORIAL WHEN I HAVE NOTHING ELSE TO DO, AND THAT YOUR AUNT'S THE +MOST EXTRAORDINARY WOMAN IN THE WORLD, SIR!"--Chap. lxiv.] + +[Illustration: BUT ONE FACE, SHINING ON ME LIKE A HEAVENLY LIGHT BY +WHICH I SEE ALL OTHER OBJECTS, IS ABOVE THEM AND BEYOND THEM ALL--Chap. +lxiv.] + + + + +A CHILD'S HISTORY OF ENGLAND + +[Illustration] + +FIFTEEN ILLUSTRATIONS BY J. McL. RALSTON + + +[Illustration: THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY AND THE DANES--Chap. iv.] + +[Illustration: THE ESCAPE OF QUEEN MATILDA FROM OXFORD CASTLE--Chap. +xi.] + +[Illustration: HUBERT DE BURGH AND THE BLACK BAND--Chap. xv.] + +[Illustration: THE DUCHESS OF GLOUCESTER DOING PENANCE--Chap. xii, Part +Third] + +[Illustration: KING JOHN OF FRANCE AT THE BATTLE OF POITIERS--Chap. +xviii.] + +[Illustration: LAMBERT SIMNEL--Chap. xxvi.] + +[Illustration: SIR EDWARD HOWARD--Chap. xxvii.] + +[Illustration: THE SPANISH ARMADA--Chap, xxxi., Third Part] + +[Illustration: BEFORE HE WENT AWAY, THE LANDLORD CAME BEHIND HIS +CHAIR--Chap. xxxiv., First Part] + +[Illustration: MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS LEAVING FRANCE--Chap. xxxi.] + +[Illustration: THE SEIZURE OF GUY FAWKES--Chap. xxxii., First Part] + +[Illustration: OLIVER CROMWELL AND IRETON AT THE BLUE BOAR--Chap. +xxxiii., Fourth Part] + +[Illustration: EXECUTION OF SIR CHARLES LUCAS AND SIR GEORGE +LISLE--Chap. xxxiii., Fourth Part] + +[Illustration: CHARLES THE FIRST TAKING LEAVE OF HIS CHILDREN--Chap, +xxxiii., Fourth Part] + + + + +BLEAK HOUSE + +[Illustration] + +SIXTY-ONE ILLUSTRATIONS + +BY FRED BARNARD + + +[Illustration: "WHO COPIED THAT!"--Chap. ii.] + +[Illustration: I AM INTRODUCED TO CONVERSATION KENGE--Chap. iii.] + +[Illustration: IN AN ATMOSPHERE OF BORRIOBOOLA--GHA--Chap. iv.] + +[Illustration: THE LORD CHANCELLOR RELATES THE DEATH OF TOM +JARNDYCE--Chap. v.] + +[Illustration: "WE ARE NOT SO PREJUDICED AS TO SUPPOSE THAT IN PRIVATE +LIFE YOU ARE OTHERWISE THAN A VERY ESTIMABLE MAN, WITH A GREAT DEAL OF +POETRY IN YOUR NATURE, OF WHICH YOU MAY NOT BE CONSCIOUS"--Chap. vi.] + +[Illustration: THE GROWLERY--Chap. viii.] + +[Illustration: "ALFRED, MY YOUNGEST (FIVE), HAS VOLUNTARILY ENROLLED +HIMSELF IN THE INFANT BONDS OF JOY, AND IS PLEDGED NEVER, THROUGH LIFE, +TO USE TOBACCO IN ANY FORM"--Chap. viii.] + +[Illustration: "IF I WERE IN YOUR PLACE I WOULD SEIZE EVERY MASTER IN +CHANCERY BY THE THROAT TO-MORROW MORNING, AND SHAKE HIM UNTIL HIS MONEY +ROLLED OUT OF HIS POCKETS, AND HIS BONES RATTLED IN HIS SKIN"--Chap. +ix.] + +[Illustration: NEMO--Chap. x.] + +[Illustration: "HE WOS WERY GOOD TO ME, HE WOS!"--Chap. xi.] + +[Illustration: "WHY, DO YOU KNOW HOW PRETTY YOU ARE, CHILD!" SHE SAYS, +TOUCHING HER SHOULDER WITH HER TWO FORE-FINGERS--Chap. xii.] + +[Illustration: DEPORTMENT--Chap. xiv.] + +[Illustration: "HONOURED, INDEED," SAID SHE, "BY ANOTHER VISIT FROM THE +WARDS IN JARNDYCE!"--Chap. xiv.] + +[Illustration: "'I'M FLY," SAYS JO. "BUT FEN LARKS, YOU KNOW. STOW +HOOKING IT"--Chap. xvi.] + +[Illustration: TO MY GREAT SURPRISE, ON GOING IN, I FOUND MY GUARDIAN +STILL THERE, AND SITTING LOOKING AT THE ASHES--Chap. xvii.] + +[Illustration: "I HAVE FRIGHTENED YOU!" SHE SAID--Chap. xviii.] + +[Illustration: "JO"--Chap. xvi.] + +[Illustration: "WHO UD GO AND LET A NICE INNOCENT LODGING TO SUCH A +REG'LAR ONE AS ME!"--Chap. xix.] + +[Illustration: "I AM GROWN UP, NOW, GUPPY. I HAVE ARRIVED AT +MATURITY"--Chap. xx.] + +[Illustration: GRANDFATHER SMALLWEED ASTONISHES MR. GEORGE--Chap. xxi.] + +[Illustration: "THERE SHE IS!" CRIES JO--Chap. xxii.] + +[Illustration: "O, YOU RIDICULOUS CHILD!" OBSERVED MRS. JELLYBY, WITH AN +ABSTRACTED AIR, AS SHE LOOKED OVER THE DESPATCH LAST OPENED; "WHAT A +GOOSE YOU ARE!"--Chap. xxiii.] + +[Illustration: "OF ALL MY OLD ASSOCIATIONS, OF ALL MY OLD PURSUITS AND +HOPES, OF ALL THE LIVING AND THE DEAD WORLD, THIS ONE POOR SOUL ALONE +COMES NATURAL TO ME, AND I AM FIT FOR"--Chap. xxiv]. + +[Illustration: "WHAT'S GONE OF YOUR FATHER AND YOUR MOTHER, EH!"--Chap. +xxv.] + +[Illustration: "I BELIEVE YOU!" SAYS MRS. BAGNET. "HE'S A BRITON. THAT'S +WHAT WOOLWICH IS. A BRITON!"--Chap. xxvii.] + +[Illustration: THE IRONMASTER--Chap. xxviii.] + +[Illustration: MR. GUPPY'S CATECHISM--Chap. xxix.] + +[Illustration: "O MY CHILD, O MY CHILD!"--Chap. xxix.] + +[Illustration: "NEVER HAVE A MISSION, MY DEAR CHILD"--Chap. xxx.] + +[Illustration: AND HE SHIVERED IN THE WINDOW-SEAT WITH CHARLEY STANDING +BY HIM, LIKE SOME WOUNDED ANIMAL THAT HAD BEEN FOUND IN A DITCH--Chap. +xxx.] + +[Illustration: "MY LOVE, YOU KNOW THESE TWO GENTLEMEN!" ... "YES!" SAYS +MRS. SNAGSBY, AND IN A RIGID MANNER ACKNOWLEDGES THEIR PRESENCE--Chap. +xxxiii.] + +[Illustration: "I HAVE COME DOWN," REPEATS GRANDFATHER SMALLWEED, +HOOKING THE AIR TOWARDS HIM WITH ALL HIS TEN FINGERS AT ONCE, "TO LOOK +AFTER THE PROPERTY"--Chap. xxxiii.] + +[Illustration: PUTS HIS HAND ON HIS BALD HEAD AGAIN, UNDER THIS NEW +VERBAL SHOWER-BATH--Chap. xxxiv.] + +[Illustration: MY MOTHER--Chap. xxxvi.] + +[Illustration: "FOR I AM CONSTANTLY BEING TAKEN IN THESE NETS," SAID MR. +SKIMPOLE, LOOKING BEAMINGLY AT US OVER A GLASS OF WINE-AND-WATER, "AND +AM CONSTANTLY BEING BAILED OUT--LIKE A BOAT"--Chap. xxxvii.] + +[Illustration: WE DANCED FOR AN HOUR WITH GREAT GRAVITY--Chap. +xxxviii.] + +[Illustration: SHE MADE NO SOUND OF LAUGHTER: BUT SHE ROLLED HER HEAD, +AND SHOOK IT, AND PUT HER HANDKERCHIEF TO HER MOUTH, AND APPEALED TO +CADDY WITH HER ELBOW--Chap. xxxviii.] + +[Illustration: "YOU ARE TO BE CONGRATULATED, MR. GUPPY, YOU ARE A +FORTUNATE YOUNG MAN, SIR"--Chap. xxxix.] + +[Illustration: UNDER THE LINCOLN'S INN TREES--Chap. xxxix] + +[Illustration: A BIRD OF ILL OMEN--Chap. xli.] + +[Illustration: "TURNS THE KEY UPON HER, MISTRESS," ILLUSTRATING WITH THE +CELLAR KEY--Chap. xlii.] + +[Illustration: RICHARD--Chap. xlv.] + +[Illustration: HERE, AGAINST A HOARDING OF DECAYING TIMBER, HE IS +BROUGHT TO BAY--Chap. xlvi.] + +[Illustration: THE CART IS SHAKEN ALL TO PIECES, AND THE RUGGED ROAD IS +VERY NEAR ITS END--Chap. xlvii.] + +[Illustration: MR. BUCKET URGING A SENSIBLE VIEW OF THE CASE WITH HIS +FAT FOREFINGER--Chap. xlix.] + +[Illustration: PEEPY WAS SUFFICIENTLY DECORATED TO WALK HAND-IN-HAND +WITH THE PROFESSOR OF DEPORTMENT--Chap. l.] + +[Illustration: "ESTHER, DEAR," SHE SAID VERY QUIETLY, "I AM NOT GOING +HOME AGAIN"--Chap. li.] + +[Illustration: "HAS'NT A DOUBT--ZAMPLE--FAR BETTER HANG WRONG F'LER THAN +NO F'LER"--Chap. liii.] + +[Illustration: "CAN YOU MAKE A HAUGHTY GENTLEMAN OF HIM ... THE POOR +INFANT!"--Chap. liv.] + +[Illustration: HE PUTS HIS HANDS TOGETHER ... AND RAISING THEM TOWARDS +HER BREAST, BOWS DOWN HIS HEAD, AND CRIES--Chap. lv.] + +[Illustration: MR. BUCKET IN LADY DEDLOCK'S BOUDOIR--Chap. lvi.] + +[Illustration: IN THE BRICKMAKER'S COTTAGE--Chap. lvii.] + +[Illustration: THE OLD HOUSEKEEPER WEEPING SILENTLY; VOLUMNIA IN THE +GREATEST AGITATION, WITH THE FRESHEST BLOOM ON HER CHEEKS; THE TROOPER +WITH HIS ARMS FOLDED AND HIS HEAD A LITTLE BENT, RESPECTFULLY +ATTENTIVE--Chap. lviii.] + +[Illustration: SHE LAY THERE, WITH ONE ARM CREEPING ROUND A BAR OF THE +IRON GATE, AND SEEMING TO EMBRACE IT--Chap. lix.] + +[Illustration: "MISS SUMMERSON," SAID MR. VHOLES, VERY SLOWLY RUBBING +HIS GLOVED HANDS, .... "THIS WAS AN ILL-ADVISED MARRIAGE OF MR. +C'S"--Chap. lx.] + +[Illustration: "TO WHICH! SAY THAT AGAIN," CRIED MR. SMALLWEED, IN A +SHRILL, SHARP VOICE--Chap. lxii.] + +[Illustration: "GET OUT WITH YOU. IF WE AIN'T GOOD ENOUGH FOR YOU, GO +AND PROCURE SOMEBODY THAT IS GOOD ENOUGH. GO ALONG AND FIND 'EM"--Chap. +lxiv.] + +[Illustration: "BUT I NEVER OWN TO IT BEFORE THE OLD GIRL. DISCIPLINE +MUST BE MAINTAINED"--Chap. lxvi.] + +[Illustration: VOLUMNIA'S DEVOTION TO SIR LEICESTER--Chap. lxvi.] + +[Illustration] + + + + +HARD TIMES + +[Illustration] + +TWENTY ILLUSTRATIONS BY H. FRENCH + + +[Illustration: "LOUISA!! THOMAS!"--Chap. iii.] + +[Illustration: "THIS IS A VERY OBTRUSIVE LAD!" SAID MR. GRADGRIND--Chap. +vi.] + +[Illustration: "HEAVEN'S MERCY, WOMAN!" HE CRIED, FALLING FARTHER OFF +FROM THE FIGURE, "HAST THOU COME BACK AGEN!"--Chap. x.] + +[Illustration: "IT WOULD BE A FINE THING TO BE YOU, MISS LOUISA!"--Chap. +ix.] + +[Illustration: HE FELT A TOUCH UPON HIS ARM--Chap. xii.] + +[Illustration: HE WENT DOWN ON HIS KNEE BEFORE HER ON THE POOR MEAN +STAIRS, AND PUT AN END OF HER SHAWL TO HIS LIPS--Chap. xiv.] + +[Illustration: "WHAT A COMICAL BROTHER-IN-LAW YOU ARE!"--Book 2, chap. +iii.] + +[Illustration: "LOUISA, MY DEAR, YOU ARE THE SUBJECT OF A PROPOSAL OF +MARRIAGE THAT HAS BEEN MADE TO ME"--Chap. xv.] + +[Illustration: "THIS, SIR," SAID BOUNDERBY, "IS MY WIFE, MRS. +BOUNDERBY"--Book 2, chap. ii.] + +[Illustration: "HEAVEN HELP US ALL IN THIS WORLD!"--Book 2, chap. v.] + +[Illustration: "MRS. BOUNDERBY, I ESTEEM IT A MOST FORTUNATE ACCIDENT +THAT I FIND YOU ALONE HERE"--Book 2, chap. vii.] + +[Illustration: MRS. SPARSIT ADVANCED CLOSER TO THEM--Book 2, chap. xi.] + +[Illustration: LEFT ALONE WITH HER MOTHER, LOUISA SAW HER LYING WITH AN +AWFUL LULL UPON HER FACE--Book 2, chap. ix] + +[Illustration: "I ONLY ENTREAT YOU TO BELIEVE, MY FAVOURITE CHILD, THAT +I HAVE MEANT TO DO RIGHT"--Book 3, chap. i.] + +[Illustration: "YOU HAVE SEEN ME ONCE BEFORE, YOUNG LADY," SAID +RACHAEL--Book 3, chap. iv.] + +[Illustration: "NOW, THETHILIA, I DON'T ATHK TO KNOW ANY THECRETH, BUT I +THUPPOTHE I MAY CONTHIDER THITH TO BE MITH THQUIRE"--Book 3, chap. +vii.] + +[Illustration: SHE STOOPED DOWN ON THE GRASS AT HIS SIDE, AND BENT OVER +HIM--Book 3, chap. vi.] + +[Illustration: HERE WAS LOUISA, ON THE NIGHT OF THE SAME DAY, WATCHING +THE FIRE AS IN THE DAYS OF YORE--Book 3, chap. ix.] + +[Illustration: HE DREW UP A PLACARD, OFFERING TWENTY POUNDS REWARD, FOR +THE APPREHENSION OF STEPHEN BLACKWOOD--Book 3, chap. iv.] + + + + +LITTLE DORRIT + +[Illustration] + +FIFTY-EIGHT ILLUSTRATIONS BY J. MAHONEY + + +[Illustration: IN MARSEILLES THAT DAY THERE WAS A VILLAINOUS PRISON. IN +ONE OF ITS CHAMBERS, SO REPULSIVE A PLACE, THAT EVEN THE OBTRUSIVE STARS +BLINKED AT IT, AND LEFT IT TO SUCH REFUSE OF REFLECTED LIGHT AS IT COULD +FIND FOR ITSELF, WERE TWO MEN--Book 1, chap. i.] + +[Illustration: "NOTHING CHANGED," SAID THE TRAVELLER, STOPPING TO LOOK +ROUND. "DARK AND MISERABLE AS EVER"--Book 1, chap. iii.] + +[Illustration: THE OBSERVER STOOD WITH HER HAND UPON HER OWN BOSOM, +LOOKING AT THE GIRL--Book 1, chap. ii.] + +[Illustration: "BUT WHAT--HEY?--LORD FORGIVE US!"--MRS. FLINTWINCH +MUTTERED SOME EJACULATION TO THIS EFFECT, AND TURNED GIDDY--FOR MR. +FLINTWINCH AWAKE, WAS WATCHING MR. FLINTWINCH ASLEEP--Book 1, chap. iv.] + +[Illustration: THEY LOOKED TEMPTING; EIGHT IN NUMBER, CIRCULARLY SET OUT +ON A WHITE PLATE, ON A TRAY COVERED WITH A WHITE NAPKIN, FLANKED BY A +SLICE OF BUTTERED FRENCH ROLL AND A LITTLE COMPACT GLASS OF COOL WINE +AND WATER--Book 1, chap. v.] + +[Illustration: "GIVE ME THE MONEY AGAIN," SAID THE OTHER EAGERLY, "AND +I'LL KEEP IT AND NEVER SPEND IT"--Book 1, chap. vi.] + +[Illustration: IN THE BACK GARRET--A SICKLY ROOM, WITH A TURNED UP +BEDSTEAD IN IT, SO HASTILY AND RECENTLY TURNED UP THAT THE BLANKETS WERE +BOILING OVER, AS IT WERE, AND KEEPING THE LID OPEN--A HALF FINISHED +BREAKFAST OF COFFEE AND TOAST, FOR TWO PERSONS, WAS JUMBLED DOWN ANYHOW +ON A RICKETY TABLE--Book 1, chap. ix.] + +[Illustration: "IS IT," SAID BARNWELL JUNIOR, TAKING HEED OF HIS +VISITOR'S BROWN FACE, "ANYTHING--ABOUT--TONNAGE--OR THAT SORT OF +THING?"--Book 1, chap. x.] + +[Illustration: ONE MAN, SLOWLY MOVING ON TOWARDS CHALONS, WAS THE ONLY +VISIBLE FIGURE ON THE LANDSCAPE. CAIN MIGHT HAVE LOOKED AS LONELY AND +AVOIDED--Book 1, chap. xi.] + +[Illustration: AND STOOPING DOWN TO PINCH THE CHEEK OF ANOTHER YOUNG +CHILD WHO WAS SITTING ON THE FLOOR, STARING AT HIM, ASKED MRS. PLORNISH +HOW OLD THAT FINE BOY WAS? "FOUR YEAR, JUST TURNED, SIR," SAID MRS. +PLORNISH. "HE'S A FINE LITTLE FELLOW, A'INT HE, SIR, BUT THIS ONE IS +RATHER SICKLY." SHE TENDERLY HUSHED THE BABY IN HER ARMS AS SHE SAID +IT--Book 1, chap. xi.] + +[Illustration: THE PARLOUR FIRE TICKED IN THE GRATE. THERE WAS ONLY ONE +PERSON ON THE PARLOUR HEARTH, AND THE LOUD WATCH IN HIS POCKET TICKED +AUDIBLY. THE SERVANT MAID HAD TICKED THE TWO WORDS, "MR. CLENNAM," SO +SOFTLY, THAT SHE HAD NOT BEEN HEARD; AND HE CONSEQUENTLY STOOD, WITHIN +THE DOOR SHE HAD CLOSED, UNNOTICED--Book 1, chap. xiii.] + +[Illustration: HIS DOOR WAS SOFTLY OPENED, AND THESE SPOKEN WORDS +STARTLED HIM, AND CAME AS IF THEY WERE AN ANSWER, "LITTLE DORRIT"--Book +1, chap. xiii.] + +[Illustration: THEY WENT TO THE CLOSED GATE, AND PEEPED THROUGH INTO THE +COURTYARD. "I HOPE HE IS SOUND ASLEEP," SAID LITTLE DORRIT, KISSING ONE +OF THE BARS, "AND DOES NOT MISS ME." THE GATE WAS SO FAMILIAR, AND SO +LIKE A COMPANION, THAT THEY PUT DOWN MAGGY'S BASKET IN A CORNER TO SERVE +FOR A SEAT, AND KEEPING CLOSE TOGETHER, RESTED THERE FOR SOME TIME--Book +1, chap. xiv.] + +[Illustration: THEN THE BELL RANG ONCE MORE, AND THEN ONCE MORE, AND +THEN KEPT ON RINGING; IN DESPITE OF WHICH IMPORTUNATE SUMMONS, AFFERY +STILL SAT BEHIND HER APRON, RECOVERING HER BREATH. AT LAST MR. +FLINTWINCH CAME SHUFFLING DOWN THE STAIRCASE INTO THE HALL, MUTTERING +AND CALLING "AFFERY WOMAN!" ALL THE WAY. AFFERY STILL REMAINING BEHIND +HER APRON, HE CAME STUMBLING DOWN THE KITCHEN STAIRS, CANDLE IN +HAND--Book 1, chap. xv.] + +[Illustration: AS ARTHUR CAME OVER THE STYLE AND DOWN TO THE WATER'S +EDGE, THE LOUNGER GLANCED AT HIM FOR A MOMENT AND THEN RESUMED HIS +OCCUPATION OF IDLY TOSSING STONES INTO THE WATER WITH HIS FOOT.--Book 1, +chap. xvii.] + +[Illustration: "O DON'T CRY!" SAID LITTLE DORRIT PITEOUSLY. "DON'T, +DON'T! GOOD-BYE, JOHN. GOD BLESS YOU!" "GOOD-BYE, MISS AMY. GOOD-BYE!" +AND SO HE LEFT HER--Book 1, chap, xviii.] + +[Illustration: AS SHE STOOD BEHIND HIM, LEANING OVER HIS CHAIR SO +LOVINGLY, HE LOOKED WITH DOWNCAST EYES AT THE FIRE. AN UNEASINESS STOLE +OVER HIM THAT WAS LIKE A TOUCH OF SHAME; AND WHEN HE SPOKE, AS HE +PRESENTLY DID, IT WAS IN AN UNCONNECTED AND EMBARRASSED MANNER--Book 1, +chap. xix.] + +[Illustration: THEY SPOKE NO MORE, ALL THE WAY BACK TO THE LODGING WHERE +FANNY AND HER UNCLE LIVED. WHEN THEY ARRIVED THERE THEY FOUND THE OLD +MAN PRACTISING HIS CLARIONET IN THE DOLEFULLEST MANNER IN A CORNER OF +THE ROOM--Book 1, chap. xx.] + +[Illustration: ARTHUR CLENNAM WITH THE CARD IN HIS HAND, BETOOK HIMSELF +TO THE ADDRESS SET FORTH ON IT, AND SPEEDILY ARRIVED THERE. IT WAS A +VERY SMALL ESTABLISHMENT, WHEREIN A DECENT WOMAN SAT BEHIND THE COUNTER +WORKING AT HER NEEDLE--Book 1, chap. xxii.] + +[Illustration: "WHAT NIMBLE FINGERS YOU HAVE," SAID FLORA, "BUT ARE YOU +SURE YOU ARE WELL?" ... "OH YES, INDEED!" FLORA PUT HER FEET UPON THE +FENDER AND SETTLED HERSELF FOR A THOROUGH GOOD ROMANTIC DISCLOSURE--Book +1, chap. xxiv.] + +[Illustration: MOUNTING TO HIS ATTIC, ATTENDED BY MRS. PLORNISH AS +INTERPRETER, HE FOUND MR. BAPTIST WITH NO FURNITURE BUT HIS BED ON THE +GROUND, A TABLE AND A CHAIR, CARVING WITH THE AID OF A FEW SIMPLE TOOLS, +IN THE BLITHEST WAY POSSIBLE. "NOW, OLD CHAP," SAID MR. PANCKS, "PAY +UP!"--Book 1, chap. xxxiii.] + +[Illustration: MR. DOYCE HAD BEEN TO TWICKENHAM TO PASS THE DAY. CLENNAM +HAD EXCUSED HIMSELF, MR. DOYCE WAS JUST COME HOME. HE PUT IN HIS HEAD AT +THE DOOR OF CLENNAM'S SITTING-ROOM TO SAY GOOD NIGHT. "COME IN, COME +IN!" SAID CLENNAM--Book 1, chap. xxvi.] + +[Illustration: HE WAS SLOWLY RESUMING HIS WAY, WHEN HE SAW A FIGURE IN +THE PATH BEFORE HIM WHICH HE HAD, PERHAPS, ALREADY ASSOCIATED WITH THE +EVENING AND ITS IMPRESSIONS. MINNIE WAS THERE ALONE--Book 1, chap. +xxviii.] + +[Illustration: WHY SHE SHOULD THEN STOOP DOWN AND LOOK IN AT THE +KEY-HOLE OF THE DOOR, AS IF AN EYE WOULD OPEN IT, IT WOULD BE DIFFICULT +TO SAY. FROM THIS POSTURE SHE STARTED SUDDENLY, WITH A HALF SCREAM, +FEELING SOMETHING ON HER SHOULDER. IT WAS THE TOUCH OF A HAND; OF A +MAN'S HAND--Book 1, chap. xxix.] + +[Illustration: THE STRANGER, TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THIS FITFUL +ILLUMINATION OF HIS VISAGE, LOOKED INTENTLY AND WONDERINGLY AT HIM--Book +1, chap. xxx.] + +[Illustration: ON THEIR ARRIVAL AT MR. BLANDOIS'S ROOM, A BOTTLE OF PORT +WINE WAS ORDERED BY THAT GALLANT GENTLEMAN; WHO COILED HIMSELF UP ON THE +WINDOW-SEAT, WHILE MR. FLINTWINCH TOOK A CHAIR OPPOSITE TO HIM, WITH THE +TABLE BETWEEN THEM--Book 1, chap. xxx.] + +[Illustration: THEY WERE WITHIN FIVE MINUTES OF THEIR DESTINATION, WHEN, +AT THE CORNER OF HER OWN STREET, THEY CAME UPON FANNY, IN HER NEW +BONNET, BOUND FOR THE SAME PORT--Book 1, chap. xxxi.] + +[Illustration: "DEAR LITTLE DORRIT, LET ME LAY IT DOWN." SHE YIELDED TO +HIM, AND HE PUT IT ASIDE! HER HANDS WERE THEN NERVOUSLY CLASPING +TOGETHER--Book 1, chap. xxxii.] + +[Illustration: "WHAT A GOOD FELLOW YOU ARE, CLENNAM!" EXCLAIMED THE +OTHER STOPPING TO LOOK AT HIM, AS IF WITH IRREPRESSIBLE ADMIRATION. +"WHAT A CAPITAL FELLOW! YOU HAVE NEVER BEEN DISAPPOINTED. THAT'S EASY TO +SEE."--Book 1, chap. xxxiv.] + +[Illustration: WORN OUT WITH HER OWN EMOTIONS, AND YIELDING TO THE +SILENCE OF THE ROOM, HER HAND SLOWLY SLACKENED AND FAILED IN ITS FANNING +MOVEMENT, AND HER HEAD DROPPED DOWN ON THE PILLOW AT HER FATHER'S SIDE. +CLENNAM ROSE SOFTLY, OPENED AND CLOSED THE DOOR WITHOUT A SOUND--Book 1, +chap. xxxv.] + +[Illustration: THROUGH THESE SPECTATORS, THE LITTLE PROCESSION, HEADED +BY THE TWO BROTHERS, MOVED SLOWLY TO THE GATE. MR. DORRIT, YIELDING TO +THE VAST SPECULATION HOW THE POOR CREATURES WERE TO GET ON WITHOUT HIM, +WAS GREAT, AND SAD, BUT NOT ABSORBED--Book 1, chap. xxxvi.] + +[Illustration: "PERMIT ME!" SAID THE TRAVELLER, RISING AND HOLDING THE +DOOR OPEN. "GOOD REPOSE! TO THE PLEASURE OF SEEING YOU ONCE MORE! TO +TO-MORROW!" AS HE KISSED HER HAND, WITH HIS BEST MANNER, AND HIS +DAINTIEST SMILE, THE YOUNG LADY DREW A LITTLE NEARER TO HER FATHER, AND +PASSED HIM WITH A DREAD OF TOUCHING HIM--Book 2, chap. i.] + +[Illustration: NEVERTHELESS, AS THEY WOUND ROUND THE RUGGED WAY WHILE +THE CONVENT WAS YET IN SIGHT, SHE MORE THAN ONCE LOOKED ROUND, AND +DESCRIED MR. BLANDOIS, BACKED BY THE CONVENT SMOKE WHICH ROSE HIGH FROM +THE CHIMNEYS IN A GOLDEN FILM, ALWAYS STANDING ON ONE JUTTING POINT +LOOKING DOWN AFTER THEM--Book 2, chap. iii.] + +[Illustration: "IT OUGHT TO BRING A JUDGMENT ON US. BROTHER, I PROTEST +AGAINST IT IN THE SIGHT OF GOD!" AS HIS HAND WENT ABOVE HIS HEAD AND +CAME DOWN UPON THE TABLE, IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN A BLACKSMITH'S--Book 2, +chap. v.] + +[Illustration: LITTLE DORRIT WAS IN FRONT, WITH HER BROTHER AND MRS. +GENERAL (MR. DORRIT HAD REMAINED AT HOME). BUT ON THE BRINK OF THE QUAY, +THEY ALL CAME TOGETHER. SHE STARTED AGAIN TO FIND BLANDOIS CLOSE TO HER, +HANDING FANNY INTO THE BOAT--Book 2, chap. vi.] + +[Illustration: "GOOD-BYE, MY LOVE! GOOD-BYE!" THE LAST WORDS WERE SPOKEN +ALOUD AS THE VIGILANT BLANDOIS STOPPED, TURNED HIS HEAD, AND LOOKED AT +THEM FROM THE BOTTOM OF THE STAIRCASE--Book 2, chap. vii.] + +[Illustration: HE STOPPED AT THE CORNER, SEEMING TO LOOK BACK +EXPECTANTLY UP THE STREET AS IF HE HAD MADE AN APPOINTMENT WITH SOME ONE +TO MEET HIM THERE; BUT HE KEPT A CAREFUL EYE ON THE THREE. WHEN THEY +CAME TOGETHER, THE MAN TOOK OFF HIS HAT AND MADE MISS WADE A BOW--Book +2, chap. ix.] + +[Illustration: "DESPATCH THEN! ACHIEVE THEN! BRING MR. FLINTWINCH! +ANNOUNCE ME TO MY LADY!" CRIED THE STRANGER, CLANKING ABOUT THE STONE +FLOOR. "PRAY TELL ME, AFFERY," SAID ARTHUR ALOUD AND STERNLY, AS HE +SURVEYED HIM FROM HEAD TO FOOT WITH INDIGNATION, "WHO IS THIS +GENTLEMAN?"--Book 2, chap. x.] + +[Illustration: THERE IS A CURTAIN, MORE DIRT-COLOURED THAN RED, WHICH +DIVIDES IT, AND THE PART BEHIND THE CURTAIN MAKES THE PRIVATE +SITTING-ROOM. WHEN I FIRST SAW HER THERE SHE WAS ALONE, AND HER WORK HAD +FALLEN OUT OF HER HAND, AND SHE WAS LOOKING UP AT THE SKY SHINING +THROUGH THE TOPS OF THE WINDOWS--Book 2, chap. xi.] + +[Illustration: "AND YOU HAVE REALLY INVESTED," CLENNAM HAD ALREADY +PASSED TO THAT WORD, "YOUR THOUSAND POUNDS, PANCKS?" ... "TO BE SURE, +SIR!" REPLIED PANCKS BOLDLY, WITH A PUFF OF SMOKE, "AND ONLY WISH IT +TEN."--Book 2, chap. xiii.] + +[Illustration: LITTLE DORRIT USED TO SIT AND MUSE HERE, MUCH AS SHE HAD +BEEN USED TO WHILE AWAY THE TIME ON HER BALCONY IN VENICE. SEATED THUS +ONE DAY, SHE WAS SOFTLY TOUCHED ON THE SHOULDER, AND FANNY SAID, "WELL, +MY DEAR," AND TOOK HER SEAT AT HER SIDE--Book 2, chap. xiv.] + +[Illustration: "TO PRESERVE YOUR APPROBATION, MRS. GENERAL," SAID FANNY, +RETURNING THE SMILE WITH ONE IN WHICH THERE WAS NO TRACE OF THOSE +INGREDIENTS, "WILL OF COURSE BE THE HIGHEST OBJECT OF MY MARRIED LIFE; +TO LOSE IT, WOULD OF COURSE BE PERFECT WRETCHEDNESS"--Book 2, chap. xv.] + +[Illustration: "WHERE IS THIS MISSING MAN? HAVE YOU COME TO GIVE US +INFORMATION WHERE HE IS? I HOPE YOU HAVE." "SO FAR FROM IT, I--HUM, HAVE +COME TO SEEK INFORMATION."... "UNFORTUNATELY FOR US, THERE IS NONE TO BE +GOT HERE. FLINTWINCH, SHOW THE GENTLEMAN THE HAND-BILL. GIVE HIM SEVERAL +TO TAKE AWAY. HOLD THE LIGHT FOR HIM TO READ IT"--Book 2, chap. xvii.] + +[Illustration: THE SUN HAD GONE DOWN FULL FOUR HOURS, AND IT WAS LATER +THAN MOST TRAVELLERS WOULD LIKE IT TO BE FOR FINDING THEMSELVES OUTSIDE +THE WALLS OF ROME, WHEN MR. DORRIT'S CARRIAGE, STILL ON ITS LAST +WEARISOME STAGE, RATTLED OVER THE SOLITARY CAMPAGNA--Book 2, chap. xix.] + +[Illustration: AS EACH OF THE TWO HANDSOME FACES LOOKED AT EACH OTHER, +CLENNAM FELT HOW EACH OF THE TWO NATURES MUST BE CONSTANTLY TEARING THE +OTHER TO PIECES--Book 2, chap. xx.] + +[Illustration: ONE FIGURE REPOSED UPON THE BED, THE OTHER KNEELING ON +THE FLOOR, DROOPED OVER IT THE ARMS EASILY AND PEACEFULLY RESTING ON THE +COVERLET; ... THE TWO BROTHERS WERE BEFORE THEIR FATHER; FAR BEYOND THE +TWILIGHT JUDGMENTS OF THIS WORLD; HIGH ABOVE ITS MISTS AND +OBSCURITIES--Book 2, chap. xix.] + +[Illustration: AFTER ONE OF THE NIGHTS THAT I HAVE SPOKEN OF, I CAME +DOWN INTO A GREENHOUSE BEFORE BREAKFAST. CHARLOTTE (THE NAME OF MY FALSE +YOUNG FRIEND) HAD GONE DOWN BEFORE ME, AND I HEARD HER AUNT SPEAKING TO +HER ABOUT ME, AS I ENTERED. I STOPPED WHERE I WAS, AMONG THE LEAVES AND +LISTENED--Book 2, chap. xxi.] + +[Illustration: "IF I DRAW YOU INTO THIS BLACK CLOSET AND SPEAK HERE."... +"WHY DO YOU HIDE YOUR FACE?"... "BECAUSE I AM AFRAID OF SEEING +SOMETHING."... "YOU CAN'T BE AFRAID OF SEEING ANYTHING IN THIS DARKNESS, +AFFERY"--Book 2, chap. xxiii.] + +[Illustration: "HE COULDN'T HAVE A BETTER NURSE TO BRING HIM ROUND," MR. +SPARKLER MADE BOLD TO OPINE.... "FOR A WONDER I CAN AGREE WITH YOU," +RETURNED HIS WIFE, LANGUIDLY TURNING HER EYELIDS A LITTLE IN HIS +DIRECTION, "AND CAN ADOPT YOUR WORDS"--Book 2, chap. xxiv.] + +[Illustration: THE DAY WAS SUNNY, AND THE MARSHALSEA, WITH THE HOT NOON +STRIKING UPON IT WAS UNWONTEDLY QUIET. ARTHUR CLENNAM DROPPED INTO A +SOLITARY ARM-CHAIR, ITSELF AS FADED AS ANY DEBTOR IN THE GAOL, AND +YIELDED HIMSELF TO HIS THOUGHTS--Book 2, chap. xxvii.] + +[Illustration: HE AROSE AND OPENED IT, AND AN AGREEABLE VOICE ACCOSTED +HIM WITH "HOW DO YOU DO, MR. CLENNAM? I HOPE I AM NOT UNWELCOME IN +CALLING TO SEE YOU." IT WAS THE SPRIGHTLY YOUNG BARNACLE, +FERDINAND--Book 2, chap. xxviii.] + +[Illustration: AND SHE CAME TOWARDS HIM WITH HER HANDS LAID ON HIS +BREAST TO KEEP HIM IN HIS CHAIR, AND WITH HER KNEES UPON THE FLOOR AT +HIS FEET, AND WITH HER LIPS RAISED UP TO KISS HIM, AND WITH HER TEARS +DROPPING ON HIM AS THE RAIN FROM HEAVEN HAD DROPPED UPON THE FLOWERS, +LITTLE DORRIT, A LOVING PRESENCE, CALLED HIM BY HIS NAME--Book 2, chap. +xxix.] + +[Illustration: IN A MOMENT, AFFERY HAD THROWN THE STOCKING DOWN, STARTED +UP, CAUGHT HOLD OF THE WINDOW-SILL WITH HER RIGHT HAND, LODGED HERSELF +UPON THE WINDOW SEAT WITH HER RIGHT KNEE, AND WAS FLOURISHING HER LEFT +HAND, BEATING EXPECTING ASSAILANTS OFF--Book 2, chap. xxx.] + +[Illustration: THE SUN HAD SET, AND THE STREETS WERE DIM IN THE DUSKY +TWILIGHT, WHEN THE FIGURE, SO LONG UNUSED TO THEM, HURRIED ON ITS +WAY--Book 2, chap. xxxi.] + +[Illustration: MR. PANCKS AND THE PATRIARCH WERE INSTANTLY THE CENTRE OF +A PRESS, ALL EYES AND EARS; WINDOWS WERE THROWN OPEN, AND DOORSTEPS WERE +THRONGED--Book 2, chap. xxxii.] + +[Illustration: SUCH A BOX HAD AFFERY FLINTWINCH SEEN IN THE FIRST OF HER +DREAMS, GOING OUT OF THE OLD HOUSE ... THIS, TATTYCORAM PUT ON THE +GROUND AT HER OLD MASTER'S FEET; THIS, TATTYCORAM FELL ON HER KNEES BY, +AND PUT HER HANDS UPON....--Book 2, chap. xxxiii.] + +[Illustration: LITTLE DORRIT AND HER HUSBAND WALKED OUT OF THE CHURCH +ALONE--Chap. xxxiv.] + + + + +REPRINTED PIECES + +NINE ILLUSTRATIONS BY E. G. DALZIEL + + +[Illustration: THE MOMENT COMES, THE FIRE IS DYING--AND THE CHILD IS +DEAD--_The Long Voyage_] + +[Illustration: "OH, GIT ALONG WITH YOU, SIR, IF YOU PLEASE, ME AND MRS. +BIGBY DON'T WANT NO MALE PARTIES HERE"--_Births--Mrs. Meeks of a son_] + +[Illustration: "LOOK AT THE SNIVELLING MILKSOP," SAID MY UNCLE--_The +Poor Relation's Story_] + +[Illustration: IN THE MIDST OF THE KITCHEN ... SITS A YOUNG, MODEST, +GENTLE-LOOKING CREATURE, WITH A BEAUTIFUL CHILD IN HER LAP--_On Duty +with Inspector Field_] + +[Illustration: "WHETHER HE WAS THE VICAR, OR MOSES, OR MR. BURCHILL, OR +A CONGLOMERATION OF ALL FOUR, I KNEW NOT"--_The Ghost of Art_] + +[Illustration: "ARE YOU FROM THE COUNTRY, YOUNG MAN?" "YES," I SAY, "I +AM"--_The Detective Police_] + +[Illustration: "IN ANOTHER ROOM WERE SEVERAL UGLY OLD WOMEN CROUCHING, +WITCH-LIKE, ROUND A HEARTH, AND CHATTING AND NODDING, AFTER THE MANNER +OF MONKEYS"--_A Walk in a Workhouse_] + +[Illustration: "MR. BLINKINS, ARE YOU ILL, SIR?"--_Our School_] + +[Illustration: HE TOOK HER IN HIS ARMS AND TOLD HER IT WAS FANCY--_A +Christmas Tree_] + + + + +A TALE OF TWO CITIES + +[Illustration] + +TWENTY-FIVE ILLUSTRATIONS BY FRED BARNARD + + +[Illustration: MISS MANETTE CURTSIED TO MR. LORRY, WITH A PRETTY DESIRE +TO CONVEY TO HIM THAT SHE FELT HOW MUCH OLDER AND WISER HE WAS THAN SHE. +HE MADE HER ANOTHER BOW--Book 1, Chap. iv.] + +[Illustration: THE WINE SHOP--Book 1, chap. v.] + +[Illustration: THE SHOEMAKER--Book 1, chap. vi.] + +[Illustration: MESSRS. CRUNCHER AND SON--Book 2, chap. i.] + +[Illustration: AND SMOOTHING HER RICH HAIR WITH AS MUCH PRIDE AS SHE +COULD POSSIBLY HAVE TAKEN IN HER OWN HAIR IF SHE HAD BEEN THE VAINEST +AND HANDSOMEST OF WOMEN--Book 2, chap. vi.] + +[Illustration: THE LION AND THE JACKAL--Book 2, chap. v.] + +[Illustration: HE STOOPED A LITTLE, AND WITH HIS TATTERED BLUE CAP +POINTED UNDER THE CARRIAGE. ALL HIS FELLOWS STOOPED TO LOOK UNDER THE +CARRIAGE--Book 2, chap. viii.] + +[Illustration: DRIVE HIM FAST FROM THE TOMB. THIS FROM JACQUES--Book 2, +chap. ix.] + +[Illustration: "THINK NOW AND THEN THAT THERE IS A MAN WHO WOULD GIVE +HIS LIFE TO KEEP A LIFE YOU LOVE BESIDE YOU"--Book 2, chap. xiii.] + +[Illustration: "IT IS FRIGHTFUL, MESSIEURS. HOW CAN THE WOMEN AND +CHILDREN DRAW WATER? WHO CAN GOSSIP OF AN EVENING UNDER THAT +SHADOW?"--Book 2, chap. xv.] + +[Illustration: SAINT ANTOINE--Book 2, chap. xvi.] + +[Illustration: "STILL, THE DOCTOR, WITH SHADED FOREHEAD, BEAT HIS FOOT +NERVOUSLY ON THE GROUND"--Book 2, chap. xix.] + +[Illustration: DRAGGED, AND STRUCK AT, AND STIFLED BY THE BUNCHES OF +GRASS AND STRAW THAT WERE THRUST INTO HIS FACE BY HUNDREDS OF +HANDS--Book 2, chap. xxii.] + +[Illustration: AMONG THE TALKERS WAS STRYVER, OF THE KING'S BENCH BAR +... BROACHING TO MONSEIGNEUR HIS DEVICES FOR BLOWING THE PEOPLE UP, AND +EXTERMINATING THEM FROM THE FACE OF THE EARTH.--Book 2, chap. xxiv.] + +[Illustration: SOME REGISTERS WERE LYING OPEN ON A DESK AND AN OFFICER +OF A COARSE DARK ASPECT PRESIDED OVER THESE--Book 3, chap. i.] + +[Illustration: THE GRINDSTONE--Book 3, chap. ii.] + +[Illustration: THE CARMAGNOLE--Book 3, chap. vi.] + +[Illustration: HERE MR. LORRY BECAME AWARE, FROM WHERE HE SAT, OF A MOST +REMARKABLE GOBLIN SHADOW ON THE WALL--Book 3, chap. x.] + +[Illustration: TWICE HE PUT HIS HAND TO THE WOUND IN HIS BREAST, AND +WITH HIS FOREFINGER DREW A CROSS IN THE AIR--Book 3, chap. x.] + +[Illustration: THE TRIAL OF EVRÉMONDE--Book 3, chap. ix.] + +[Illustration: AS HE WAS DRAWN AWAY, HIS WIFE RELEASED HIM, AND STOOD +LOOKING AFTER HIM WITH HER HANDS TOUCHING ONE ANOTHER IN THE ATTITUDE OF +PRAYER--Book 3, chap. xi.] + +[Illustration: HIS HEAD AND THROAT WERE BARE, AND, AS HE SPOKE WITH +HELPLESS LOOK STRAYING ALL ROUND, HE TOOK HIS COAT OFF, AND LET IT DROP +ON THE FLOOR--Book 3, chap. xii.] + +[Illustration: "YOU MIGHT, FROM YOUR APPEARANCE, BE THE WIFE OF +LUCIFER," SAID MISS PROSS IN HER BREATHING. "NEVERTHELESS YOU SHALL NOT +GET THE BETTER OF ME. I AM AN ENGLISHWOMAN"--Book 3, chap. xiv.] + +[Illustration: THE THIRD TUMBREL--Book 3, chap. xv.] + + + + +THE UNCOMMERCIAL TRAVELLER + +[Illustration] + +TWENTY-SIX ILLUSTRATIONS BY E. G. DALZIEL + + +[Illustration: SAW FROM THE LADDER'S ELEVATION, AS HE LOOKED DOWN BY +CHANCE TOWARDS THE SHORE, SOME DARK, TROUBLED OBJECT CLOSE IN WITH THE +LAND--_The Shipwreck_] + +[Illustration: A CHEAP THEATRE, SUNDAY NIGHT--_Two Views of a Cheap +Theatre_] + +[Illustration: STOOD A CREATURE REMOTELY IN THE LIKENESS OF A YOUNG MAN, +WITH PUFFED, SALLOW FACE, AND A FIGURE ALL DIRTY AND SHINY AND SLIMY, +WHO MAY HAVE BEEN THE YOUNGEST SON OF HIS FILTHY OLD FATHER, +THAMES--_Wapping Workhouse_] + +[Illustration: MR. GRAZINGLANDS LOOKED INTO A PASTRYCOOK'S WINDOW, +HESITATING AS TO THE EXPEDIENCY OF LUNCHING AT THAT ESTABLISHMENT +--_Refreshments for Travellers_] + +[Illustration: "BAGS TO HOLD YOUR MONEY," SAYS THE WITCH, SHAKING HER +HEAD AND SETTING HER TEETH; "YOU AS HAS GOT IT"--_Poor Mercantile Jack_] + +[Illustration: THE TALL GLAZED HEAD-DRESS OF HIS WARRIOR STRAUDENHEIM +INSTANTLY KNOCKED OFF--_Travelling Abroad_] + +[Illustration: HE WAS TAKEN INTO CUSTODY BY THE POLICE--_Shy +Neighbourhoods_] + +[Illustration: "DROP OF SOMETHING TO DRINK," INTERPOSED THE STRANGER. "I +AM AGREEABLE"--_Chambers_] + +[Illustration: "'THEN YOU'RE A TRAMP,' HE SES. 'I'D RATHER BE THAT THAN +A BEADLE,' I SES"--_Tramps_] + +[Illustration: "AM I RED TO-NIGHT?" "YOU ARE," HE UNCOMPROMISINGLY +ANSWERED--_Night Walks_] + +[Illustration: "A LEMON HAS PIPS, AND A YARD HAS SHIPS, AND I'LL HAVE +CHIPS!"--_Nurses' Stories_] + +[Illustration: THE WIND BLOWS STIFFLY FROM THE NOR'-EAST ... AND THE +SHAPELESS PASSENGERS LIE ABOUT IN MELANCHOLY BUNDLES--_The Calais Night +Mail_] + +[Illustration: THEN DROPPED UPON HER KNEES BEFORE US, WITH PROTESTATIONS +THAT WE WERE RIGHT--_Some Recollections of Mortality_] + +[Illustration: ON THE STARBOARD SIDE OF THE SHIP A GRIZZLED MAN DICTATED +A LONG LETTER TO ANOTHER GRIZZLED MAN IN AN IMMENSE FUR CAP--_Bound for +the Great Salt Lake_] + +[Illustration: BLINKING OLD MEN WHO ARE LET OUT OF THE WORKHOUSE BY THE +HOUR HAVE A TENDENCY TO SIT ON BITS OF COPING STONE IN THESE CHURCHYARDS +... THE MORE DEPRESSED CLASS OF BEGGARS TOO BRING HITHER BROKEN MEALS, +AND MUNCH--_The City of the Absent_] + +[Illustration: MR. J. MELLOWS, OF THE "DOLPHIN'S HEAD"--_An old +Stage-coaching House_] + +[Illustration: BUILDING H.M.S. ACHILLES--_Chatham Dockyard_] + +[Illustration: AT THE STATION THEY HAD BEEN SITTING ABOUT IN THEIR +THREADBARE HOMESPUN GARMENTS ... SAD ENOUGH AT HEART, MOST OF THEM--_In +the French-Flemish Country_] + +[Illustration: IT WAS AGREED THAT MR. BATTENS "OUGHT TO TAKE IT UP," AND +MR. BATTENS WAS COMMUNICATED WITH ON THE SUBJECT--_Titbull's +Almshouses_] + +[Illustration: AT THE UPPER END OF THIS DUNGEON ... THE ENGLISHMAN FIRST +BEHELD HIM, SITTING ON AN IRON BEDSTEAD, TO WHICH HE WAS CHAINED BY A +HEAVY CHAIN--_The Italian Prisoner_] + +[Illustration: TROTTING ABOUT AMONG THE BEDS, ON FAMILIAR TERMS WITH ALL +THE PATIENTS, WAS A COMICAL MONGREL DOG CALLED POODLES--_A Small Star in +the East_] + +[Illustration: OVER THE GROG, MIXED IN A BUCKET, PRESIDES THE +BOATSWAIN'S MATE--_Aboard Ship_] + +[Illustration: THIS ENGAGING FIGURE APPROACHED THE FATAL LAMPS--_Mr. +Barlow_] + +[Illustration: LOOK AT THIS GROUP AT A STREET CORNER--_The Ruffian_] + +[Illustration: AND WHITE RIDING HOOD WAS FINED TEN SHILLINGS--_The +Ruffian_] + + + + +GREAT EXPECTATIONS + +[Illustration] + +THIRTY ILLUSTRATIONS BY F. A. FRASER + +[Illustration: "HOLD YOUR NOISE!" CRIED A HORRIBLE VOICE ... "KEEP +STILL, YOU LITTLE DEVIL, OR I'LL CUT YOUR THROAT"--Chap. i.] + +[Illustration: THE SERGEANT RAN IN FIRST--Chap. v.] + +[Illustration: "WHY, HERE'S A J!" SAID JOE, "AND A O EQUAL TO +ANYTHINK!"--Chap. vii.] + +[Illustration: SHE GAVE A CONTEMPTUOUS TOSS ... AND LEFT ME--Chap. +viii.] + +[Illustration: HE SAID, "AHA! WOULD YOU!" AND BEGAN DANCING BACKWARDS +AND FORWARDS--Chap. xi.] + +[Illustration: "WELL, PIP, YOU KNOW, ... YOU YOURSELF SEE ME PUT 'EM IN +MY 'AT, AND THEREFORE YOU KNOW AS THEY ARE HERE"--Chap. xiii.] + +[Illustration: ORLICK ... WAS VERY SOON AMONG THE COAL-DUST, AND IN NO +HURRY TO COME OUT OF IT--Chap. xv.] + +[Illustration: THEN SHE SOFTLY PATTED MY SHOULDER IN A SOOTHING +WAY--Chap. xvii.] + +[Illustration: "NOW, THIS," SAID MR. TRABB ... "IS A VERY SWEET +ARTICLE"--Chap. xix] + +[Illustration: "SAY ANOTHER WORD--ONE SINGLE WORD--AND WEMMICK SHALL +GIVE YOU YOUR MONEY BACK"--Chap. xx.] + +[Illustration: "THIS CHAP ... MURDERED HIS MASTER"--Chap. xxiv.] + +[Illustration: WE FOUND THE AGED HEATING THE POKER, WITH EXPECTANT +EYES--Chap. xxv.] + +[Illustration: "DO YOU TAKE TEA, OR COFFEE, MR. GARGERY?"--Chap. xxvii.] + +[Illustration: DRAWLING TO HIS ATTENDANTS, "DON'T KNOW YAH, DON'T KNOW +YAH!"--Chap. xxx] + +[Illustration: "OH, YOU MUST TAKE THE PURSE!"--Chap. xxxiii.] + +[Illustration: IT WAS FINE SUMMER WEATHER AGAIN--Chap. xxxv.] + +[Illustration: "IT IS OF NO USE," SAID BIDDY--Chap. xxxv.] + +[Illustration: "WHAT!" SAID ESTELLA, PRESERVING HER ATTITUDE OF +INDIFFERENCE AS SHE LEANED AGAINST THE GREAT CHIMNEY-PIECE, AND ONLY +MOVING HER EYES, "DO YOU REPROACH ME FOR BEING COLD! YOU!"--Chap. +xxxviii.] + +[Illustration: "WHY SHOULD I LOOK AT HIM?" RETURNED ESTELLA--Chap. +xxxviii.] + +[Illustration: I ROSE OUT OF MY CHAIR, AND STOOD WITH MY HAND UPON THE +BACK OF IT, LOOKING WILDLY AT HIM--Chap. xxxix.] + +[Illustration: GRADUALLY I SLIPPED FROM THE CHAIR, AND LAY ON THE +FLOOR--Chap. xl.] + +[Illustration: "WHEN I SAY TO COMPEYSON 'ONCE OUT OF THIS COURT, I'LL +SMASH THAT FACE O' YOURN!' AIN'T IT COMPEYSON AS PRAYS THE JUDGE TO BE +PROTECTED, AND GETS TWO TURNKEYS STOOD BETWIXT US!"--Chap. xiii] + +[Illustration: HE CAME BACK CALLING FOR A LIGHT FOR THE CIGAR IN HIS +MOUTH, WHICH HE HAD FORGOTTEN. A MAN IN A DUST-COLOURED DRESS APPEARED +WITH WHAT HE WANTED--Chap. xliii.] + +[Illustration: I HAD TO FEEL MY WAY BACK AMONG THE SHIPPING--Chap. +xlvii.] + +[Illustration: I ENTREATED HER TO RISE--Chap. xlix.] + +[Illustration: "HIM THAT I SPEAK OF," SAID THE LANDLORD, "MR. +PUMBLECHOOK"--Chap. lii.] + +[Illustration: "DO YOU KNOW THIS!" SAID HE--Chap. liii.] + +[Illustration: HE HAD SPOKEN HIS LAST WORDS--Chap. lvi.] + +[Illustration: WE SAT DOWN ON A BENCH THAT WAS NEAR--Chap. lix.] + + + + +OUR MUTUAL FRIEND + +[Illustration] + +FIFTY-EIGHT ILLUSTRATIONS + +BY J. MAHONEY + +[Illustration: THE BIRD OF PREY--Chap. i.] + +[Illustration: "SHOW US A PICTURE," SAID THE BOY. "TELL US WHERE TO +LOOK!"--Chap. iii.] + +[Illustration: WHEN IT CAME TO BELLA'S TURN TO SIGN HER NAME, MR. +ROKESMITH, WHO WAS STANDING, AS HE HAD SAT, WITH A HESITATING HAND UPON +THE TABLE, LOOKED AT HER STEALTHILY, BUT NARROWLY--Chap. iv.] + +[Illustration: "HERE YOU ARE AGAIN," REPEATED MR. WEGG, MUSING. "AND +WHAT ARE YOU NOW?"--Chap. v]. + +[Illustration: LIZZIE, LOOKING FOR HER FATHER, SAW HIM COMING, AND STOOD +UPON THE CAUSEWAY THAT HE MIGHT SEE HER--Chap. vi.] + +[Illustration: AFTER HOLDING HER TO HIS BREAST WITH A PASSIONATE CRY, HE +TOOK UP HIS BUNDLE AND DARTED OUT AT THE DOOR, WITH AN ARM ACROSS HER +EYES--Book 1, chap. vi.] + +[Illustration: "YOU'RE CASTING YOUR EYES ROUND THE SHOP, MR. WEGG. LET +ME SHOW YOU A LIGHT"--Chap. vii.] + +[Illustration: "NOODY!" SAID MRS. BOFFIN, COMING FROM HER FASHIONABLE +SOFA TO HIS SIDE ON THE PLAIN SETTLE AND HOOKING HER COMFORTABLE ARM +THROUGH HIS--Chap. ix.] + +[Illustration: THAT HE KNEW IT AS WELL AS SHE, SHE KNEW AS WELL AS HE, +WHEN THEY WERE LEFT TOGETHER STANDING ON THE PATH BY THE +GARDEN-GATE--Chap. ix.] + +[Illustration: SHE SITS UPON HER STONE, AND TAKES NO HEED OF HIM--Chap. +x.] + +[Illustration: "APPARENTLY ONE OF THE GHOSTS HAS LOST ITS WAY, AND +DROPPED IN TO BE DIRECTED. LOOK AT THIS PHANTOM!"--Chap. xii.] + +[Illustration: IT WAS A LITTLE WINDOW OF BUT FOUR PIECES OF GLASS, AND +WAS NOT CURTAINED; HE CHOSE IT BECAUSE THE LARGER WINDOW NEAR IT +WAS--Chap. xiii.] + +[Illustration: THEY HAD OPENED THE DOOR AT THE BOTTOM OF THE STAIRCASE +GIVING ON THE YARD, AND THEY STOOD IN THE SUN-LIGHT LOOKING AT THE +SCRAWL OF THE TWO UNSTEADY CHILDISH HANDS TWO OR THREE STEPS UP THE +STAIRCASE--Chap. xv.] + +[Illustration: "COME HERE, TODDLES AND PODDLES"--Chap. xvi.] + +[Illustration: MR. BRADLEY HEADSTONE, HIGHLY CERTIFICATED STIPENDIARY +SCHOOLMASTER, DREW HIS RIGHT FORE-FINGER THROUGH ONE OF THE BUTTON-HOLES +OF THE BOY'S COAT, AND LOOKED AT IT ATTENTIVELY--Book 2, chap. i.] + +[Illustration: HE STOOD LEANING BY THE DOOR AT LIZZIE'S SIDE--Book 2, +chap. ii.] + +[Illustration: "ONE THING, HOWEVER, I CAN DO FOR YOU," SAYS TWEMLOW, +"AND THAT IS, WORK FOR YOU." VENEERING BLESSED HIM AGAIN--Book 2, chap. +iii.] + +[Illustration: AH! HERE WAS ALFRED. HAVING STOLEN IN UNOBSERVED, HE +PLAYFULLY LEANED ON THE BACK OF SOPHRONIA'S CHAIR--Book 2, chap. iv.] + +[Illustration: PERCHED ON THE STOOL, WITH HIS HAT COCKED ON HIS HEAD, +AND ONE OF HIS LEGS DANGLING, THE YOUTH OF FLEDGEBY HARDLY CONTRASTED TO +ADVANTAGE WITH THE AGE OF THE JEWISH MAN AS HE STOOD WITH HIS BARE HEAD +BOWED--Book 2, chap. v.] + +[Illustration: "COME UP AND BE DEAD! COME UP AND BE DEAD"--Book 2, chap. +v.] + +[Illustration: "GOOD EVENING, MR. WEGG. THE YARD-GATE LOCK SHOULD BE +LOOKED TO, IF YOU PLEASE; IT DON'T CATCH"--Book 2, chap. vii.] + +[Illustration: "YOU NEVER CHARGE ME, MISS WILFER," SAID THE SECRETARY, +ENCOUNTERING HER BY CHANCE ALONE IN THE GREAT DRAWING-ROOM, "WITH +COMMISSIONS FOR HOME. I SHALL ALWAYS BE HAPPY TO EXECUTE ANY COMMANDS +YOU MAY HAVE IN THAT DIRECTION"--Book 2, chap. viii.] + +[Illustration: "NOW YOU MAY GIVE ME A KISS, PA"--Book 2, chap. viii.] + +[Illustration: "A KISS FOR THE BOOFER LADY"--Book 2, chap. ix.] + +[Illustration: "MEANING," RETURNED THE LITTLE CREATURE, "EVERY ONE OF +YOU BUT YOU. HAH! NOW LOOK THIS LADY IN THE FACE. THIS IS MRS. TRUTH. +THE HONOURABLE. FULL-DRESSED"--Book 2, chap. xi.] + +[Illustration: AND NOW, AS THE MAN HELD OUT THE BOTTLE TO FILL ALL +ROUND, RIDERHOOD STOOD UP, LEANED OVER THE TABLE TO LOOK CLOSER AT THE +KNIFE, AND STARED FROM IT TO HIM--Book 2, chap. xii.] + +[Illustration: YET THE COLD WAS MERCIFUL, FOR IT WAS THE COLD NIGHT AIR +AND THE RAIN THAT RESTORED ME FROM A SWOON ON THE STONES OF THE +CAUSEWAY--Book 2, chap. xiii.] + +[Illustration: THE DARK LOOK OF HATRED AND REVENGE WITH WHICH THE WORDS +BROKE FROM HIS LIVID LIPS ... MADE HER SO AFRAID OF HIM THAT SHE TURNED +TO RUN AWAY. BUT HE CAUGHT HER BY THE ARM--Book 2, chap. xv.] + +[Illustration: MRS. LAMMLE, ON A SOFA BY A TABLE, INVITES MR. TWEMLOW'S +ATTENTION TO A BOOK OF PORTRAITS IN HER HAND--Book 2, chap. xvi.] + +[Illustration: IT WAS AN EDIFYING SPECTACLE, THE YOUNG MAN IN HIS EASY +CHAIR TAKING HIS COFFEE, AND THE OLD MAN, WITH HIS GREY HEAD BENT, +STANDING AWAITING HIS PLEASURE--Book 3, chap. i.] + +[Illustration: "IT'S SUMMAT RUN DOWN IN THE FOG"--Book 3, Chap. ii.] + +[Illustration: "OH, INDEED, SIR! I FANCY I CAN GUESS WHOM YOU THINK +THAT'S LIKE"--Book 3, chap. iv.] + +[Illustration: JENNY TWISTED HER VENERABLE FRIEND ASIDE, TO A +BRILLIANTLY LIGHTED TOY-SHOP WINDOW, AND SAID, "NOW LOOK AT 'EM! ALL MY +WORK!"--Book 3, chap. ii.] + +[Illustration: FEIGNING TO BE INTENT ON HER EMBROIDERY, SHE SAT PLYING +HER NEEDLE UNTIL HER BUSY HAND WAS STOPPED BY MRS. BOFFIN'S HAND BEING +LIGHTLY LAID UPON IT--Book 3, chap. v.] + +[Illustration: "HE CAN NEVER BE GOING TO DIG UP THE POLE!" WHISPERED +VENUS AS THEY DROPPED LOW AND KEPT CLOSE--Book 3, chap. vi.] + +[Illustration: "THERE'LL SHORTLY BE AN END OF YOU," SAID WEGG, +THREATENING IT WITH THE HAT-BOX, "YOUR VARNISH IS FADING"--Book 3, chap. +vii.] + +[Illustration: LIZZIE HEXHAM VERY SOFTLY RAISED THE WEATHER-STAINED GREY +HEAD, AND LIFTED HER AS HIGH AS HEAVEN--Book 3, chap. viii.] + +[Illustration: SO THEY WALKED, SPEAKING OF THE NEWLY-FILLED-UP GRAVE, +AND OF JOHNNY, AND OF MANY THINGS--Book 3, chap. ix.] + +[Illustration: "AND YOU SEE, AS I WAS SAYING, MORTIMER," REMARKED EUGENE +ALOUD WITH THE UTMOST COOLNESS, AS THOUGH THERE WERE NO ONE WITHIN +HEARING BUT THEMSELVES, "AND YOU SEE, AS I WAS SAYING--UNDERGOING +GRINDING TORMENTS"--Book 3, chap. x.] + +[Illustration: SHE SHOOK THAT EMPHATIC LITTLE FOREFINGER OF HERS IN HIS +FACE, AT PARTING, AS EARNESTLY AND REPROACHFULLY AS SHE HAD EVER SHAKEN +IT AT HER GRIM OLD CHILD AT HOME--Book 3, chap. xiii.] + +[Illustration: MR. VENUS PRODUCED THE DOCUMENT, HOLDING ON BY HIS USUAL +CORNER. MR. WEGG, HOLDING ON BY THE OPPOSITE CORNER, SAT DOWN ON THE +SEAT SO LATELY VACATED BY MR. BOFFIN, AND LOOKED IT OVER--Book 3, chap. +xiv.] + +[Illustration: "YOU HAVE BEEN A PLEASANT ROOM TO ME, DEAR ROOM! ADIEU! +WE SHALL NEVER SEE EACH OTHER AGAIN"--Book 3, chap. xv.] + +[Illustration: THE CHERUB, WHOSE HAIR WOULD HAVE DONE FOR ITSELF UNDER +THE INFLUENCE OF THIS AMAZING SPECTACLE, WHAT BELLA HAD JUST NOW DONE +FOR IT, STAGGERED BACK INTO THE WINDOW SEAT FROM WHICH HE HAD RISEN, AND +SURVEYED THE PAIR WITH HIS EYES DILATED TO THEIR UTMOST--Book 3, chap. +xvi.] + +[Illustration: "NOW, DOLLS, WAKE UP!" "MIST WRAYBURN! DRECTION! FIFTEEN +SHILLINGS!"--Book 3, chap. xvii.] + +[Illustration: ROGUE RIDERHOOD RECOGNISED HIS "T'OTHER GOVERNOR," MR. +EUGENE WRAYBURN--Book 4, Chap. i.] + +[Illustration: THERE WERE ACTUALLY TEARS IN THE BOLD WOMAN'S EYES AS THE +SOFT-HEADED AND SOFT-HEARTED GIRL TWINED HER ARMS ABOUT HER NECK--Book +4, chap. ii] + +[Illustration: IT WAS A PLEASANT SIGHT, IN THE MIDST OF THE GOLDEN +BLOOM, TO SEE THIS SALT OLD GRUFF AND GLUM WAVING HIS SHOVEL HAT AT +BELLA, WHILE HIS THIN WHITE HAIR FLOWED FREE, AS IF SHE HAD ONCE MORE +LAUNCHED HIM INTO BLUE WATER AGAIN--Book 4, chap. iv.] + +[Illustration: "THERE!" SAID BELLA, WHEN SHE HAD AT LAST COMPLETED THE +FINAL TOUCHES. "NOW YOU ARE SOMETHING LIKE A GENTEEL BOY! PUT YOUR +JACKET ON AND COME AND HAVE YOUR SUPPER."--Book 4, chap. v.] + +[Illustration: HE HAD SAUNTERED FAR ENOUGH. BEFORE RETURNING TO RETRACE +HIS STEPS, HE STOPPED UPON THE MARGIN TO LOOK DOWN AT THE REFLECTED +NIGHT--Book 4, chap. vi.] + +[Illustration: WHEN THE BATHER HAD FINISHED DRESSING, HE KNEELED ON THE +GRASS, DOING SOMETHING WITH HIS HANDS, AND AGAIN STOOD UP WITH HIS +BUNDLE UNDER HIS ARM. LOOKING ALL AROUND HIM WITH GREAT ATTENTION, HE +THEN WENT TO THE RIVER'S EDGE, AND FLUNG IT IN AS FAR, AND YET AS +LIGHTLY, AS HE COULD--Book 4, chap. vii.] + +[Illustration: SHE TOOK THE LIBERTY OF OPENING AN INNER DOOR, AND THEN +BEHELD THE EXTRAORDINARY SPECTACLE OF MR. FLEDGEBY IN A SHIRT, A PAIR OF +TURKISH TROUSERS, AND A TURKISH CAP, ROLLING OVER AND OVER ON HIS OWN +CARPET, AND SPLUTTERING WONDERFULLY--Book 4, chap. viii.] + +[Illustration: MISS JENNY GAVE UP ALTOGETHER ON THIS PARTING TAKING +PLACE BETWEEN THE FRIENDS, AND SITTING WITH HER BACK TOWARDS THE BED IN +THE BOWER MADE BY BRIGHT HAIR WEPT HEARTILY THOUGH NOISELESSLY--Book 4, +chap. vii.] + +[Illustration: BELLA'S HUSBAND STEPPED SOFTLY TO THE HALF-DOOR OF THE +BAR AND STOOD THERE--Book 4, chap. xii.] + +[Illustration: "IT LOOKS AS IF THE OLD MAN'S SPIRIT HAD FOUND REST AT +LAST; DON'T IT!" SAID MRS. BOFFIN--Book 4, chap. xiii.] + +[Illustration: BRADLEY HESITATED FOR A MOMENT, BUT PLACED HIS USUAL +SIGNATURE, ENLARGED, UPON THE BOARD--Book 4, chap. xv.] + +[Illustration: "THERE, THERE, THERE!" SAID MISS WREN, "FOR GOODNESS' +SAKE STOP, GIANT, OR I SHALL BE SWALLOWED UP ALIVE BEFORE I KNOW +IT"--Book 4, chap. xvi.] + +[Illustration: RIDERHOOD WENT OVER INTO THE SMOOTH PIT BACKWARDS, AND +BRADLEY HEADSTONE UPON HIM--Book 4, chap. xv.] + + + + +CHRISTMAS STORIES FROM "HOUSEHOLD WORDS" AND "ALL THE YEAR ROUND" + +[Illustration] + +TWENTY-THREE ILLUSTRATIONS BY E. G. DALZIEL + + +[Illustration: "I'M ONLY A COMMON SOLDIER, SIR," SAID HE. "IT SIGNIFIES +VERY LITTLE WHAT SUCH A POOR BRUTE COMES TO"--_Seven Poor Travellers_, +chap. ii.] + +[Illustration: AND WHEN THE VISITOR (OPPRESSED WITH PIE) HAD FALLEN +ASLEEP, THIS WICKED LANDLORD WOULD LOOK SOFTLY IN WITH A LAMP IN ONE +HAND AND A KNIFE IN THE OTHER, WOULD CUT HIS THROAT, &C.--_Holly Tree +Inn_, First Branch.] + +[Illustration: "MY DEAR CAPTAIN KAVENDER," SAYS HE. "OF ALL THE MEN ON +EARTH, I WANTED TO SEE YOU MOST. I WAS ON MY WAY TO YOU"--_The Wreck of +the Golden Mary_--The Wreck] + +[Illustration: "O CHRISTIAN GEORGE KING SAR BERRY SORRY!" SAYS THE SAMBO +VAGABOND--_The Perils of Certain English Prisoners_, chap. i.] + +[Illustration: A GRIZZLED PERSONAGE IN VELVETEEN, WITH A FACE SO CUT UP +BY VARIETIES OF WEATHER THAT HE LOOKED AS IF HE HAD BEEN TATTOOED, WAS +FOUND SMOKING A PIPE AT THE DOOR OF A WOODEN HOUSE ON WHEELS--_Going +into Society_] + +[Illustration: AN IMPERTURBABLE AND SPEECHLESS MAN, HE HAD SAT AT HIS +SUPPER, WITH STREAKER PRESENT IN A SWOON--_The Haunted House_, The +Mortals in the House] + +[Illustration: "MIGHT YOU BE MARRIED NOW?" ASKED THE CAPTAIN WHEN HE HAD +SOME TASK WITH THIS NEW ACQUAINTANCE.... "NOT YET." ... "GOING TO BE?" +SAID THE CAPTAIN.... "I HOPE SO"--_A Message from the Sea_, chap. i.] + +[Illustration: "WHAT IS YOUR NAME, SIR, AND WHERE DO YOU COME FROM!" +ASKED MR. MOPES THE HERMIT--_Tom Tiddler's Ground_, chap. i.] + +[Illustration: "BUT IT IS NOT IMPOSSIBLE THAT YOU ARE A PIG!" RETORTED +MADAME BOUCLET--_Somebody's Luggage_, chap. ii.] + +[Illustration: "I AM GLAD TO SEE YOU EMPLOYED," SAID MR. TRAVELLER.... +"I AM GLAD TO BE EMPLOYED," RETURNED THE TINKER-_Tom Tiddler's Ground_, +chap. vii.] + +[Illustration: WILLING SOPHY DOWN UPON HER KNEES SCRUBBING EARLY AND +LATE AND EVER CHEERFUL BUT ALWAYS SMILING WITH A BLACK FACE--_Mrs. +Lirriper's Lodgings_, chap. i.] + +[Illustration: "COME, SIR! REMOVE ME TO MY VILE DUNGEON. WHERE IS MY +MOULDY STRAW!"--_Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy_, chap. i.] + +[Illustration: AND AT LAST SITTING DOZING AGAINST A MUDDY CART WHEEL, I +COME UPON THE POOR GIRL WHO WAS DEAF AND DUMB--_Dr. Marigold_] + +[Illustration: WHILE I WAS SPEAKING TO HIM, I SAW IT OPEN, AND A MAN +LOOK IN, WHO VERY EARNESTLY AND MYSTERIOUSLY BECKONED TO ME--_Two Ghost +Stories_, I.] + +[Illustration: "I TOOK YOU FOR SOME ONE ELSE YESTERDAY EVENING. THAT +TROUBLES ME"--_Two Ghost Stories_, II.] + +[Illustration: "WHAT WOULD YOU DO WITH TWOPENCE, IF I GAVE IT YOU!"... +"'PEND IT"--_Mugby Junction_, chap. ii.] + +[Illustration: COTCHED THE DECANTER OUT OF HIS HAND, AND SAID "PUT IT +DOWN, I WON'T ALLOW THAT!"--_Mugby Junction_, chap. iii.] + +[Illustration: "IT'S FROM THE BEST CORNER OF OUR BEST +FORTY-FIVE-YEAR-OLD BIN," SAID MR. WILDING.... "THANK YOU, SIR," SAID +MR. BINTRY. "IT'S MOST EXCELLENT"--_No Thoroughfare_, Act i.] + +[Illustration: "WE ARE FAMOUS FOR THE GROWTH IN THIS VAULT, AREN'T +WE!"--_No Thoroughfare_, Act i.] + +[Illustration: "IF THERE HAD BEEN A WRESTLE WITH A ROBBER, AS I +DREAMED," SAID OBENREIZER, "YOU SEE I WAS STRIPPED FOR IT."... "AND +ARMED TOO," SAID VENDALE, GLANCING AT HIS GIRDLE--_No Thoroughfare_, Act +iii.] + +[Illustration: HE BECAME ROUSED TO THE KNOWLEDGE THAT OBENREIZER HAD SET +UPON HIM, AND THAT THEY WERE STRUGGLING DESPERATELY IN THE SNOW--_No +Thoroughfare_, Act iii.] + +[Illustration: AT THE SIDE DOOR OF THE CHURCH ARE THE SAME TWO MEN FROM +THE HOSPICE--_No Thoroughfare_, Act iv.] + + + + +THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD + +TWELVE ILLUSTRATIONS BY SIR LUKE FILDES, R.A. + + +[Illustration: IN THE COURT--Chap. i.] + +[Illustration: UNDER THE TREES--Chap. iii.] + +[Illustration: AT THE PIANO--Chap. vii.] + +[Illustration: ON DANGEROUS GROUND--Chap. viii.] + +[Illustration: MR. CRISPARKLE IS OVERPAID--Chap. x.] + +[Illustration: DURDLES CAUTIONS MR. SAPSEA AGAINST BOASTING--Chap. +xii.] + +[Illustration: "GOOD-BYE, ROSEBUD, DARLING!"--Chap. xiii.] + +[Illustration: MR. GREWGIOUS HAS HIS SUSPICIONS--Chap. xv.] + +[Illustration: JASPER'S SACRIFICES--Chap. xix.] + +[Illustration: MR. GREWGIOUS EXPERIENCES A NEW SENSATION--Chap. xx.] + +[Illustration: UP THE RIVER--Chap. xxii.] + +[Illustration: SLEEPING IT OFF--Chap. xxiii.] + + + + +THE LIFE OF CHARLES DICKENS + +[Illustration] + +TWENTY-EIGHT ILLUSTRATIONS BY FRED BARNARD + + +[Illustration: IF HE WEAKLY SHOWED THE LEAST DISPOSITION TO HEAR IT, +CAPTAIN PORTER, IN A LOUD SONOROUS VOICE, GAVE HIM EVERY WORD OF +IT--Book 1, chap. ii.] + +[Illustration: ONE OF WHOM TOLD US SHE "HAD NO MONEY FOR BEGGAR +BOYS"--Book 1, chap. iii.] + +[Illustration: JACK STRAW'S CASTLE, MEMORABLE FOR MANY HAPPY MEETINGS IN +COMING YEARS--Book 2, chap. i.] + +[Illustration: "IT A'NT A SMOKIN' YOUR WAY, SIR, I SAYS;" HE SAYS, "NO +MORE IT IS, COACHMAN, AND AS LONG AS IT SMOKES ANYBODY ELSE'S WAY, IT'S +ALL RIGHT AND I'M AGREEABLE"--Book 2, chap. viii.] + +[Illustration: IF YOU COULD BUT KNOW HOW I HATED ONE MAN IN VERY DIRTY +GAITERS, AND WITH VERY PROTRUDING UPPER TEETH, WHO SAID TO ALL COMERS +AFTER HIM, "SO YOU'VE BEEN INTRODUCED TO OUR FRIEND DICKENS--EH!"--Book +3, Chap. ii.] + +[Illustration: HE LOOKED UP AT ME; GAVE HIMSELF AN ODD, DOGGED KIND OF +SHAKE; AND FIXED HIS EYES ON HIS BOOK AGAIN--Book 4, chap. iv.] + +[Illustration: HE IS PERHAPS THE MOST HORRIBLE BORE IN THE COUNTRY--Book +3, chap. v.] + +[Illustration: VISIT TO A TRAMPS' LODGING-HOUSE--Book 3, chap. viii.] + +[Illustration: GENOESE WASHERWOMEN--Book 4, chap. v.] + +[Illustration: THE RADICOFANI WIZARD--Book 4, chap. vii.] + +[Illustration: "I SAY, WHAT'S FRENCH FOR A PILLOW!" "IS THERE ANY +ITALIAN PHRASE FOR A LUMP OF SUGAR! JUST LOOK, WILL YOU!" "WHAT THE +DEVIL DOES ECHO MEAN! THE GARSONG SAYS ECHO TO EVERYTHING"--Book 4, +Chap. vi.] + +[Illustration: NEAPOLITAN LAZZARONI--Book 4, chap. vii.] + +[Illustration: READING "DOMBEY" AT THE SNUFF SHOP--Book 5, chap. vii.] + +[Illustration: "I HAVE NEVER BEEN ABLE TO SEE WHAT THEY ARE, BECAUSE ONE +OF THE OLD LADIES ALWAYS SITS BEFORE THEM; BUT THEY LOOK, OUTSIDE, LIKE +VERY OLD BACKGAMMON BOARDS"--Book 5, chap. iv.] + +[Illustration: "HALLOA, MRS. GAMP, WHAT ARE YOU UP TO!"--Book 6, chap. +i] + +[Illustration: OFF YARMOUTH--Book 6, chap. vi.] + +[Illustration: LIKEWISE AN OLD MAN WHO RAN OVER A MILK-CHILD RATHER THAN +STOP!--WITH NO NECKCLOTH, ON PRINCIPLE; AND WITH HIS MOUTH WIDE OPEN TO +CATCH THE MORNING AIR--Book 6, chap. vi.] + +[Illustration: BYE AND BYE I CAME UPON A POLENTA-SHOP IN THE CLOUDS, +WHERE AN OLD FRENCHMAN WITH AN UMBRELLA LIKE A FADED TROPICAL LEAF (IT +HAD NOT RAINED IN NAPLES FOR SIX WEEKS) WAS STARING AT NOTHING AT ALL, +WITH A SNUFF-BOX IN HIS HAND--Book 7, chap. iii.] + +[Illustration: "C'EST VRAI DONC," SAYS THE DUKE, "QUE MADAME LA DUCHESSE +N'EST PLUS!"... "C'EST TROP VRAI, MONSEIGNEUR."... "TANT MIEUX," SAYS +THE DUKE, AND WALKS OFF DELIBERATELY, TO THE GREAT SATISFACTION OF THE +ASSEMBLAGE--Book 7, chap. v.] + +[Illustration: A WARM CORNER IN THE PIG-MARKET AT BOULOGNE--Book 7, +chap. v.] + +[Illustration: WHENEVER HE FELT TOOTS COMING AGAIN, HE BEGAN TO LAUGH +AND WIPE HIS EYES AFRESH; AND WHEN TOOTS CAME ONCE MORE, HE GAVE A KIND +OF CRY, AS IF IT WERE TOO MUCH FOR HIM--Book 8, chap. iv.] + +[Illustration: HE ... SLIGHTLY COCKED UP HIS EVIL EYE AT THE GOLDFINCH. +INSTANTLY A RAGING THIRST BESET THAT BIRD; AND WHEN IT WAS APPEASED HE +STILL DREW SEVERAL UNNECESSARY BUCKETS OF WATER, LEAPING ABOUT HIS PERCH +AND SHARPENING HIS BILL WITH IRREPRESSIBLE SATISFACTION--Book 8, chap. +v.] + +[Illustration: THE UNEDUCATED FATHER IN FUSTIAN AND THE EDUCATED BOY IN +SPECTACLES--Book 9, chap. v.] + +[Illustration: SAM WELLER IN SIERRA NEVADA--Book 9, chap. viii.] + +[Illustration: IN A TRANSPORT OF PRESENCE OF MIND AND FURY, HE INSTANTLY +CAUGHT HIM UP IN BOTH HANDS, AND THREW HIM OVER HIS OWN HEAD OUT INTO +THE ENTRY, WHERE THE CHECK-TAKERS RECEIVED HIM LIKE A GAME AT BALL--Book +10, chap. ii.] + +[Illustration: "I BEG YOUR PARDON, SIR," HE ANSWERED, "BUT IF IT HADN'T +BEEN FOR MY PIPE, I SHOULD HAVE BEEN NOWHERE"--Book 11, chap. iii.] + +[Illustration: "IN A MISERABLE COURT AT NIGHT," SAYS MR. FIELDS, "WE +FOUND A HAGGARD OLD WOMAN BLOWING AT A KIND OF PIPE MADE OF AN OLD +INK-BOTTLE"--Book 1, chap. xii.] + + * * * * * + +Transcriber's Notes: + +Many of these notes will only apply to the HTML version as they refer to +captions that are small-capped in the original which cannot be +represented in a plain text version. + +Obvious punctuation repaired. + +Page 24, "the" changed to "The" at start of sentence. (The body washed +ashore) + +Page 61, "i" changed to "I" (I'll eat my head) + +Page 63, "i" changed to "I" (Directly I leave go) + +Page 81, "i" changed to "I" (and I have the strength) + +Page 82, "vi" changed to "xvi" (Chap. xvi.) + +Page 85, "i" changed to "I" (here I am) + +Page 86, first word of new sentence "He" capitalized. (He had now +fallen) + +Page 111, "i" changed to "I" (No, no, I'm not) + +Page 111, "--Chap. lxiii." added to illustration + +Page 117, "Heavans" changed to "Heavens" (Heavens! Can I write) + +Page 150, "is'nt" changed to "isn't" (there he isn't) + +Page 162, "--Chap. xlviii." added to illustration + +Page 201, "xxvl" changed to "xxvi" (Chap. xxvi.) + +Page 323, "Hamlet'8" changed to "Hamlet's" (Hamlet's aunt betrays) + +Page 381, "Buckett" changed to "Bucket" (Mr. Bucket urging a sensible) + +Page 402, "i" changed to "I" (that I have meant) + +Page 431, "rome" changed to "Rome" (the walls of Rome) + +Page 464, "sunday" changed to "Sunday" (theatre, Sunday night) + +Page 521, "Wraeburn" changed to "Wrayburn" (Mr. Eugene Wrayburn) + +Page 522, "p easant" changed to "pleasant" (It was a pleasant sight) + +Page 545, "i" changed to "I" (if I gave it you) + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Scenes and Characters from the Works +of Charles Dickens, by Charles Dickens + +*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 43207 *** |