Dick Swiveller and the Marchioness
The Marchioness, sharp-witted and cunning, holding her cards very tight, considered which to play, and Mr. Swiveller, assuming the gay and fashionable air which such society required, took another pull at the tankard, and waited for her lead.
Harry Furniss
1910
14.2 x 9.3 cm, framed
Dickens's The Old Curiosity Shop, The Charles Dickens Library Edition, facing V, facing 424.
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Scanned image and text by Philip V. Allingham.