Part i

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[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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.]

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HARD TIMES

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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!"--