Sampson Brass

Sampson Brass

J. Clayton Clarke ("Kyd")

Watercolour

He had a cringing manner, but a very harsh voice; and his blandest smiles were so extremely forbidding, that to have had his company under the least repulsive circumstances, one would have wished him to be out of temper that he might only scowl." Old Curiosity Shop. — Chap. xi.

  • The John Players cigarette card

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