"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." — Fred Barnard's forty-fifth illustration for "Dombey and Son" (1877)

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"Miss Dombey," returned Mr. Toots, "if you'll only name one, you'll — you'll give me an appetite. To which . . . I have long been a stranger."

Fred Barnard

1877

13.9 cm high x 10.6 cm wide

composite wood-block engraving

Dombey and Son, 321

Illustration for Chapter Chapter 45, "The Trusty Agent," in Dickens's Dombey and Son, in the Household Edition, XV.

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Passage Illustrated: Florence provides for Susan Nipper, just discharged

"Dear Mr. Toots," said Florence, "you are so friendly to me, and so honest, that I am sure I may ask a favour of you."

"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."

"Susan, who is an old friend of mine, the oldest friend I have," said Florence, "is about to leave here suddenly, and quite alone, poor girl. She is going home, a little way into the country. Might I ask you to take care of her until she is in the coach?"

"Miss Dombey," returned Mr. Toots, "you really do me an honour and a kindness. This proof of your confidence, after the manner in which I was Beast enough to conduct myself at Brighton —"

"Yes," said Florence, hurriedly — "no — don’t think of that. Then would you have the kindness to — to go? and to be ready to meet her when she comes out? Thank you a thousand times! You ease my mind so much. She doesn’t seem so desolate. You cannot think how grateful I feel to you, or what a good friend I am sure you are!" and Florence in her earnestness thanked him again and again; and Mr. Toots, in his earnestness, hurried away — but backwards, that he might lose no glimpse of her. [Chapter 44, "A Separation," 317]

Pertinent Illustrations from The Diamond, Household, and Library Editions

Left: Phiz's dramatisation of Susan Nipper's dismissal and departure from Dombey's house: Florence parts from a very old friend, (Ch. 44: November 1848). Centre: Sol Eytinge, Jr.'s study of the street-wise charity boy: Rob the Grinder (1867). Right: Harry Furniss's dramatisation of the character of the street-wise charity boy: Susan Nipper and Mr. Dombey (1910).

Related Material including Other Illustrated Editions of Dombey and Son

Dombey and Son (homepage)
Phiz's 39 illustrations for Dombey and Son, Wholesale Retail & for Exportation (Oct. 1846 — April 1848)
Sol Eytinge, Junior's 16 illustrations (1867)
The Illustrators of the Household Edition of the Works of Charles Dickens (22 vols., 1871-79)
Kyd's five Player's Cigarette Cards for Dombey and Son (1910)
Harry Furniss's illustrations for the Charles Dickens Library Edition (1910)

Bibliography

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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