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Scenes and Characters from the Works of Charles Dickens

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people fixing a chair
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TWENTY-SIX ILLUSTRATIONS BY E. G. DALZIEL

Saw from the ladder's elevation, as he looked down by chance towards the shore, some dark, troubled object close in with the land—The Shipwreck

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A cheap theatre, Sunday night—Two Views of a Cheap Theatre

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Stood a creature remotely in the likeness of a young man, with puffed, sallow face, and a figure all dirty and shiny and slimy, who may have been the youngest son of his filthy old father, Thames—Wapping Workhouse

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Mr. Grazinglands looked into a pastrycook's window, hesitating as to the expediency of lunching at that establishment—Refreshments for Travellers

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"Bags to hold your money," says the witch, shaking her head and setting her teeth; "you as has got it"—Poor Mercantile Jack

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The tall glazed head-dress of his warrior Straudenheim instantly knocked off—Travelling Abroad

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He was taken into custody by the police—Shy Neighbourhoods

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"Drop of something to drink," interposed the stranger. "I am agreeable"—Chambers

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"'Then you're a tramp,' he ses. 'I'd rather be that than a beadle,' I ses"—Tramps

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"Am I red to-night?" "You are," he uncompromisingly answered—Night Walks

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"A lemon has pips, and a yard has ships, and I'll have chips!"—Nurses' Stories

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The wind blows stiffly from the nor'-east . . . and the shapeless passengers lie about in melancholy bundles—The Calais Night Mail

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Then dropped upon her knees before us, with protestations that we were right—Some Recollections of Mortality

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On the starboard side of the ship a grizzled man dictated a long letter to another grizzled man in an immense fur cap—Bound for the Great Salt Lake

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Blinking old men who are let out of the workhouse by the hour have a tendency to sit on bits of coping stone in these churchyards . . . the more depressed class of beggars too bring hither broken meals, and munch—The City of the Absent

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Mr. J. Mellows, of the "Dolphin's Head"—An old Stage-coaching House

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Building h.m.s. Achilles—Chatham Dockyard

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At the station they had been sitting about in their threadbare homespun garments . . . sad enough at heart, most of them—In the French-Flemish Country

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It was agreed that Mr. Battens "ought to take it up," and Mr. Battens was communicated with on the subject—Titbull's Almshouses

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At the upper end of this dungeon . . . the Englishman first beheld him, sitting on an iron bedstead, to which he was chained by a heavy chain—The Italian Prisoner

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Trotting about among the beds, on familiar terms with all the patients, was a comical mongrel dog called Poodles—A Small Star in the East

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Over the grog, mixed in a bucket, presides the boatswain's mate—Aboard Ship

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This engaging figure approached the fatal lamps—Mr. Barlow

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Look at this group at a street corner—The Ruffian

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And White Riding Hood was fined ten shillings—The Ruffian

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