The Penitent's Return

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. Master Humphrey, p. 21

Harry Furniss

1910

13.9 cm x 8.9 cm (5 ⅜ by 3 ½ inches), framed.

Dickens's Master Humphrey's Clock, Chapter II, "The Clock Case: First Night of the Giant Chronicles" — facing VI, 21.

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