"They went off very fast." — Eighth illustration by W. H. C. Groome for Dickens's "Old Curiosity Shop" (1900)

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They went off very fast.

W. H. C. Groome

1900

12.4 x 8 cm, framed

Lithograph

Dickens's Old Curiosity Shop (pp. 696), facing 513.

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Context of the Illustration: A Family Outing to the Theatre

However, it was high time now to be thinking of the play; for which great preparation was required, in the way of shawls and bonnets, not to mention one handkerchief full of oranges and another of apples, which took some time tying up, in consequence of the fruit having a tendency to roll out at the corners. At length, everything was ready, and they went off very fast; Kit’s mother carrying the baby, who was dreadfully wide awake, and Kit holding little Jacob in one hand, and escorting Barbara with the other—a state of things which occasioned the two mothers, who walked behind, to declare that they looked quite family folks, and caused Barbara to blush and say, "Now don’t, mother!" But Kit said she had no call to mind what they said; and indeed she need not have had, if she had known how very far from Kit’s thoughts any love-making was. Poor Barbara! [Chapter XXXIX, 144].

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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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Last modified 23 November 2020