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Barnaby finds Edward
The figure of a man extended in an apparently lifeless state upon the pathway, and hovering round him another person with a torch in his hand, which he waved in the air with a wild impatience.
Harry Furniss
1910
14.1 cm x 9.3 cm (5 ½ by 3 ¾ inches), partially vignetted
Dickens's Barnaby Rudge, The Charles Dickens Library Edition (1910), facing VI, 33.
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Scanned image and text by Philip V. Allingham.
The matter indeed looked sufficiently serious, for, coming to the place whence the cries had proceeded, he descried the figure of a man extended in an apparently lifeless state upon the pathway, and, hovering round him, another person with a torch in his hand, which he waved in the air with a wild impatience, redoubling meanwhile those cries for help which had brought the locksmith to the spot.
"What’s here to do?" said the old man, alighting. "How’s this — what — Barnaby?"
The bearer of the torch shook his long loose hair back from his eyes, and thrusting his face eagerly into that of the locksmith, fixed upon him a look which told his history at once.
"You know me, Barnaby?" said Varden.
He nodded — not once or twice, but a score of times, and that with a fantastic exaggeration which would have kept his head in motion for an hour, but that the locksmith held up his finger, and fixing his eye sternly upon him caused him to desist; then pointed to the body with an inquiring look. [Chapter III, 28]
Above: Phiz's original realisation of the same scene with an emphasis on Barnaby, Barnaby's mother, and the victim of the footpad: Succouring the Wounded (27 February 1841).
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 Harry Furniss. The Charles Dickens Library Edition. 18 vols. London: Educational Book Company, 1910. VI.
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