The Wedding Feast

Harry Furniss

1910

5 ½ by 3 ¾ inches (13.8 cm high x 9.2 cm wide), vignetted

Arthur Gride chattered and mowed over his ledger until peg Sliderskew interrupted him. "It's the fowl, said peg, holding up a plate containing a phenomenally small and skinny one. "A beautiful bird!" said Arthur. There’ll only be she and me — and you, Peg, when we’ve done — nobody else." — p. 717.

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Dickens's Nicholas Nickleby, The Charles Dickens Library Edition, facing IV, 720.

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