They entered a little parlour, where Katherine was preparing breakfast

G. Stiff

1846

Wood engraving

Source: The Project Gutenberg version of G. W. M. Reynolds’s The Mysteries of London

Smithers, the executioner, and his son, Gibbet, who dreads following his father’s profession, enter the well-furnished breakfast room.

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