Shadow: "Past the printed bill, which she looks at going by; out of view."

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Phiz

June 1853

Photogravure

13.6 cm high by 9.4 cm wide (5 by 3 ⅝ inches), framed

Facing Volume XVII, 801, in Dickens's Bleak House in the Co-operative Publication Society Edition (1912).

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Passage Illustrated: Detective Bucket pursues a Murderer

"Mr. Bucket, my Lady."

Mr. Bucket makes a leg and comes forward, passing his familiar demon over the region of his mouth.

"Are you waiting to see Sir Leicester?"

"No, my Lady, I've seen him!"

"Have you anything to say to me?"

"Not just at present, my Lady."

"Have you made any new discoveries?"

"A few, my Lady."

This is merely in passing. She scarcely makes a stop, and sweeps upstairs alone. Mr. Bucket, moving towards the staircase-foot, watches her as she goes up the steps the old man came down to his grave, past murderous groups of statuary repeated with their shadowy weapons on the wall, past the printed bill, which she looks at going by, out of view. [Chapter LIII, "The Track"]

See Shadow in Bleak House, Part 16 (June 1853)

Bibliography

Dickens, Charles. Bleak House. Illustrated by Hablot Knight Browne ("Phiz"). London: Bradbury & Evans. Bouverie Street, 1853.

Dickens, Charles. Works. Photogravure-Illustrated Edition. New York and London: Co-operative Publication Society, [n. d., 1912?].

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