The Penitent's Return

Harry Furniss

1910

13.9 x 9 cm, framed

Dickens's Master Humphrey's Clock, completes Vol. 6 of the Charles Dickens Library Edition; facing page 21.

Yes, there she was, — there, in the chamber he had quitted, — there in her old innocent, happy home, so changed that none but he could trace one gleam of what she had been,—there upon her knees, — with her hands clasped in agony and shame before her burning face.

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