Smike rehearses as the Apothecary
Harry Furniss
1910
5 ¼ by 3 ¼ inches (13.3 cm high x 8.5 cm wide), vignetted
Nicholas showed Smike how he must come in with both hands spread out
upon his stomach, and how he must occasionally rub it, in compliance with the established
form by which people on the stage always denote that they want something to eat. Smike
was pronounced unanimously, alike by audience and actors, the very prince and prodigy of
Apothecaries. (336)
Dickens's Nicholas Nickleby, The Charles
Dickens Library Edition, facing IV, 321.
Scanned image and text by
Philip V. Allingham.
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