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"Go," said the good-humoured Manager, gathering up his skirts, and standing astride upon the hearth-rug. . . ."
Fred Barnard
1877
13.7 cm high x 10.6 cm wide, full-page, framed.
composite wood-block engraving
Dombey and Son, 225
Illustration for Chapter 32, "The Wooden Midshipman goes to Pieces," facing p. 239 in Dickens's Dombey and Son, in the Household Edition, XV.
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Scanned image and text by Philip V. Allingham
"I tell you what, Captain Cuttle," said the Manager, shaking his forefinger at him, and showing him all his teeth, but still amiably smiling, "I was much too lenient with you when you came here before. You belong to an artful and audacious set of people. In my desire to save young what’s-his-name from being kicked out of this place, neck and crop, my good Captain, I tolerated you; but for once, and only once. Now, go, my friend!"
The Captain was absolutely rooted to the ground, and speechless —
"Go," said the good-humoured Manager, gathering up his skirts, and standing astride upon the hearth-rug, "like a sensible fellow, and let us have no turning out, or any such violent measures. If Mr Dombey were here, Captain, you might be obliged to leave in a more ignominious manner, possibly. I merely say, Go!"
The Captain, laying his ponderous hand upon his chest, to assist himself in fetching a deep breath, looked at Mr Carker from head to foot, and looked round the little room, as if he did not clearly understand where he was, or in what company.
"You are deep, Captain Cuttle," pursued Carker, with the easy and vivacious frankness of a man of the world who knew the world too well to be ruffled by any discovery of misdoing, when it did not immediately concern himself, ‘but you are not quite out of soundings, either—neither you nor your absent friend, Captain. What have you done with your absent friend, hey?" [Chapter 32. "The Wooden Midshipman goes to Pieces," 239]
Left: Sol Eytinge, Jr.'s character study of the devious Manager: Mr. Carker (1867). Centre: Harry Furniss's version of the same confrontation of the honest, old sailor and the highly suspicious Manager: Captain Cuttle and Mr. Carker (1910). Right of centre: Eytinge's character study of the old sailor: Captain Cuttle (1867). Right: W. H. C. Groome's version of the confrontation at the offices of Dombey & Co.: "Let us have no turning out" (1900).
Dickens, Charles. Dombey and Son. Illustrated by Phiz. (Hablot K. Browne). London: Chapman and Hall, 1848.
_______. Dombey and Son. Illustrated by Hablot Knight Browne (Phiz). 8 coloured plates. London and Edinburgh: Caxton and Ballantyne, Hanson, 1910.
_______. Dombey and Son.16 Illustrations by Sol Eytinge, Jr., and A. V. S. Anthony (engraver). The Diamond Edition. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1867. III.
_______. Dombey and Son. Illustrated by Fred Barnard [62 composite wood-block engravings]. The Works of Charles Dickens. The Household Edition. 22 vols. London: Chapman and Hall, 1877. XV.
"Dombey and Son — Sixty-two Illustrations by Fred Barnard." Scenes and Characters from the Works of Charles Dickens, Being Eight Hundred and Sixty-six Drawings by Fred Barnard, Gordon Thomson, Hablot Knight Browne (Phiz), J. McL. Ralston, J. Mahoney, H. French, Charles Green, E. G. Dalziel, A. B. Frost, F. A. Fraser, and Sir Luke Fildes. London: Chapman and Hall, 1907.
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