"He had had another Pinch of Snuff in his Hand" (1898) by Maurice Greiffenhagen, 1862-1931

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He had had another Pinch of Snuff in his Hand

Maurice Greiffenhagen

1898

Lithograph

12.1 by 8.1 cm, page 321, framed

Dickens's Hunted Down in the The Fireside Edition

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Passage illustrated: "But see here," said Beckwith, never looking away, never raising his voice, never relaxing his face, never unclenching his hand. "See what a dull wolf you have been, after all! The infatuated drunkard who never drank a fiftieth part of the liquor you plied him with, but poured it away, here, there, [continued below]

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Passage Illustrated (Continued)

everywhere — almost before your eyes; who bought over the fellow you set to watch him and to ply him, by outbidding you in his bribe, before he had been at his work three days — with whom you have observed no caution, yet who was so bent on ridding the earth of you as a wild beast, that he would have defeated you if you had been ever so prudent — that drunkard whom you have, many a time, left on the floor of this room, and who has even let you go out of it, alive and undeceived, when you have turned him over with your foot — has, almost as often, on the same night, within an hour, within a few minutes, watched you awake, had his hand at your pillow when you were asleep, turned over your papers, taken samples from your bottles and packets of powder, changed their contents, rifled every secret of your life!"

He had had another pinch of snuff in his hand, but had gradually let it drop from between his fingers to the floor; where he now smoothed it out with his foot, looking down at it the while." [Chapter 5, pp. 319-20]

Bibliography

Dickens, Charles. Hard Times, Hunted Down, Holiday Romance, & George Silverman's Explanation. Illustrated by Fred Walker and Maurice Greiffenhagen. The Fireside Edition. 22 vols. London: Chapman and Hall; New York: Henry Froude; New York: Oxford University Press American Branch, 1898. Volume 12.

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