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Captain Cuttle consoles his Friend
Phiz (Hablot K. Browne)
steel-engraving
12.5 cm high by 11 cm wide (5 x 4 ¼ inches)
This was the sixth plate in the serial publication of Dickens's Dombey and Son in third monthly number (December 1846).
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"Gills!" said the Captain, hurrying into the back parlour, and taking him by the hand quite tenderly. "Lay your head well to the wind, and we’ll fight through it. All you’ve got to do," said the Captain, with the solemnity of a man who was delivering himself of one of the most precious practical tenets ever discovered by human wisdom, "is to lay your head well to the wind, and we’ll fight through it!"
Old Sol returned the pressure of his hand, and thanked him.
Captain Cuttle, then, with a gravity suitable to the nature of the occasion, put down upon the table the two tea-spoons and the sugar-tongs, the silver watch, and the ready money; and asked Mr Brogley, the broker, what the damage was.
"Come! What do you make of it?" said Captain Cuttle.
"Why, Lord help you!" returned the broker; "you don’t suppose that property’s of any use, do you?"
"Why not?" inquired the Captain.
"Why? The amount’s three hundred and seventy, odd," replied the broker.
"Never mind," returned the Captain, though he was evidently dismayed by the figures: "all’s fish that comes to your net, I suppose?"
"Certainly," said Mr. Brogley. "But sprats ain’t whales, you know."
The philosophy of this observation seemed to strike the Captain. He ruminated for a minute; eyeing the broker, meanwhile, as a deep genius; and then called the Instrument-maker aside. [Chapter IX, "In which the Wooden Midshipman gets into Trouble," 145-46]
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