“Will you go, sir?”
W. H. C. Groome
1900
12.3 x 8 cm, framed
Lithograph
Dickens's Old Curiosity Shop (pp. 696), facing 192.
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Scanned image and text by Philip V. Allingham.
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Context of the Illustration: Dick Swiveller Challenges Quilp
Mr. Swiveller swayed himself to and fro to preserve his balance, and, looking into a kind of haze which seemed to surround him, at last perceived two eyes dimly twinkling through the mist, which he observed after a short time were in the neighbourhood of a nose and mouth. Casting his eyes down towards that quarter in which, with reference to a man’s face, his legs are usually to be found, he observed that the face had a body attached; and when he looked more intently he was satisfied that the person was Mr Quilp, who indeed had been in his company all the time, but whom he had some vague idea of having left a mile or two behind.
"You have deceived an orphan, Sir," said Mr. Swiveller solemnly."
"I! I’m a second father to you," replied Quilp.
"You my father, Sir!" retorted Dick. "Being all right myself, Sir, I request to be left alone — instantly, Sir."
"What a funny fellow you are!" cried Quilp.
"Go, Sir," returned Dick, leaning against a post and waving his hand. "Go, deceiver, go, some day, Sir, p’r’aps you’ll waken, from pleasure’s dream to know, the grief of orphans forsaken. Will you go, Sir?" [Chapter XXIII, 218]
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Bibliography
Dickens, Charles. The Old Curiosity Shop. Illustrated by William H. C. Groome. The Collins' Clear-Type Edition. Glasgow & London: Collins, 1900.
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