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Miss Haredale
A glimpse of the form and dress as she rossed the little wooden bridge which lay between them, satisfied him, satisfied him that he had found her whom he desired to see.
Harry Furniss
1910
13.8 cm x 9 cm (5 ½ by 3 ½ inches), vignetted
Dickens's Barnaby Rudge, The Charles Dickens Library Edition (1910), facing VI, 225.
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Scanned image and text by Philip V. Allingham.
. . . he entered the bounds of Miss Haredale’s usual walk. He had not gone far, or looked about him long, when he descried coming towards him, a female figure. A glimpse of the form and dress as she crossed a little wooden bridge which lay between them, satisfied him that he had found her whom he desired to see. He threw himself in her way, and a very few paces brought them close together.
He raised his hat from his head, and yielding the path, suffered her to pass him. Then, as if the idea had but that moment occurred to him, he turned hastily back and said in an agitated voice:
"I beg pardon — do I address Miss Haredale?"
She stopped in some confusion at being so unexpectedly accosted by a stranger; and answered "Yes." [Chapter XXIX, 225]
Furniss follows the precedent of Cattermole in the original serial by excluding Mr. Chester from the frame and focussing exclusively on Emma Haredale, again merely suggesting The Warren in the background. Fred Barnard in the Household Edition illustration chose the alternative of including a suave, almost artificially made up Chester urbanely arrest her attention in "I beg pardon — do I address Miss Haredale?" (1874). He is quite at odds with his rural surroundings in his powdered wig and fashionable, London clothes. In Furniss's interpretation, we see (presumably) what Mr. Chester sees, and he has yet tointerrupt her.
Above: George Cattermole's picturesque realisation of Emma Haredale on her daily walk on the grounds of The Warren: Miss Haredale on the Bridge (8 May 1841).
Dickens, Charles. Barnaby Rudge in Master Humphrey's Clock. Illustrated by Phiz and George Cattermole. 3 vols. London: Chapman and Hall, 1841; rpt., Bradbury and Evans, 1849.
_______. Barnaby Rudge. Illustrated by Harry Furniss. The Charles Dickens Library Edition. 18 vols. London: Educational Book Company, 1910. VI.
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