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"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!"
Fred Barnard
1874
5 7⁄16 by 4 ⅛ inches (13.7 cm by 10.5 cm), framed
Dickens's Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty, the Household Edition, VII, 88.
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Scanned image and text by Philip V. Allingham.
Finding there was a lady in the case, Mr. Tappertit haughtily requested his fair friend to be more explicit, and demanded to know what she meant by "her."
"Why, that Dolly," said Miggs, with an extremely sharp emphasis on the name. "But, oh 'upon my word and honour, young Joseph Willet is a brave one; and he do deserve her, that he do."
"Woman!’ said Mr. Tappertit, jumping off the counter on which he was seated; "beware!"
"My stars, Simmun!’ cried Miggs, in affected astonishment. "You frighten me to death! What’s the matter?"
"There are strings," said Mr. Tappertit, flourishing his bread-and-cheese knife in the air, "in the human heart that had better not be wibrated. That’s what’s the matter."
"Oh, very well — if you’re in a huff," cried Miggs, turning away.
"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!"
Notwithstanding this uncivil exhortation, Miggs gladly did as she was required; and told him how that their young mistress, being alone in the meadows after dark, had been attacked by three or four tall men, who would have certainly borne her away and perhaps murdered her, but for the timely arrival of Joseph Willet, who with his own single hand put them all to flight, and rescued her; to the lasting admiration of his fellow-creatures generally, and to the eternal love and gratitude of Dolly Varden.
"Very good," said Mr. Tappertit, fetching a long breath when the tale was told, and rubbing his hair up till it stood stiff and straight on end all over his head. "His days are numbered."
"Oh, Simmun!"
"I tell you," said the ‘prentice, "his days are numbered. Leave me. Get along with you." [Chapter XXII, 88]
Left: Phiz's study of the calculating maid at her casement window: Miggs in the Sanctity of her Chamber (13 March 1841). Centre: Detail of Phiz's illustration: The Locksmith Dressing for Parade (10 July 1841). Right: Harry Furniss's lithograph for the Charles Dickens Library Edition Tappertit presiding over the 'Prentice Knights (1910).
Dickens, Charles. Barnaby Rudge in Master Humphrey's Clock. Illustrated by Phiz and George Cattermole. 3 vols. London: Chapman and Hall, 1841; rpt., Bradbury and Evans, 1849.
_______. Barnaby Rudge. Illustrated by Sol Eytinge, Jr. The Diamond Edition. 16 vols. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1867.
________. Barnaby Rudge — A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty. Illustrated by Fred Barnard. The Household Edition. 22 vols. London: Chapman and Hall, 1874. VII.
________. Barnaby Rudge. Illustrated by Harry Furniss. The Charles Dickens Library Edition. London: Educational Book Company, 1910. VI.
________. The Dickens Souvenir Book. London: Chapman & Hall, 1912.
Hammerton, J. A. "Ch. XIV. Barnaby Rudge." The Dickens Picture-Book. The Charles Dickens Library Edition, illustrated by Harry Furniss. London: Educational Book Co., 1910. 213-55.
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