Mr. Guppy Proposes
Harry Furniss
1910
13.4 cm x 8.9 cm, vignetted
Mr. Guppy went
down on his knees. I was well behind my table, and not much frightened. I said, "Get up
from that ridiculous position immediately, Sir, or you will oblige me to break my implied
promise and ring the bell!"
Dickens's Bleak House, The Charles Dickens
Library Edition, Chapter 9, "A Morning Adventure," facing XI, 128.
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