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Captain Cuttle and Mr. Carker
Harry Furniss
1910
14.3 x 9.6 cm, vignetted
Dickens's Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son: Wholesale, Retail, and for Exportation, the Charles Dickens Library Edition, IX, facing 256.
"What do you think now, Captain Cuttle," returned Carker, gathering up his skirts and settling himself. "You are a practical man; what do you think?"
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Scanned image and text by Philip V. Allingham.
— Is everything right and comfortable here, and is Wal’r out’ard bound with a pretty fair wind?"
"What do you think now, Captain Cuttle?" returned Carker, gathering up his skirts and settling himself in his position. "You are a practical man; what do you think?"
The acuteness and the significance of the Captain’s eye as he cocked it in reply, no words short of those unutterable Chinese words before referred to could describe.
"Come!" said the Captain, unspeakably encouraged, "what do you say? Am I right or wrong?"
So much had the Captain expressed in his eye, emboldened and incited by Mr. Carker’s smiling urbanity, that he felt himself in as fair a condition to put the question, as if he had expressed his sentiments with the utmost elaboration.
"Right," said Mr. Carker, "I have no doubt." [Chapter XVII, "Captain Cuttle does a little Business for the Young People," 241]
Left: Sol Eytinge, Jr.'s character study of the devious Manager: Mr. Carker (1867). Centre: Fred Barnard's full-page realisation of version of the same confrontation scene: "Go," said the good-humoured Manager, gathering up his skirts, and standing astride upon the hearth-rug. . . (1877). 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).
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