"The Accident," by "Phiz" (Illustration for Charles Lever's "Barrington")

The Accident

Phiz (Hablot K. Browne)

1863

Charles Lever's Barrington, p. 28

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Commentary

Peter Barrington (right), Fred Conyers (a young cornet in the Hussars; centre), and Colonel Hunter (left) are set in the entrance hall of "The Fisherman's Rest," the room containing fishing tackle and (somewhat incongruously above the lintel) either a picture of or a mounted specimen of a large fish (presumably a trout). The moment realised occurs at the bottom of page 27 and the top of page 28, when the youth with a sprained ankle, assisted by his colonel, is admitted just as M'Cormick, Barrington, and Dr. Dill are about to start their weekly rubber of whist.

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