Mrs. Pocket And Her Family

Mrs. Pocket And Her Family by Harry Furniss. 1910. 4.8 x 7.5 inches. Dickens's Great Expectations, Charles Dickens Library Edition. Scanned image and text by Philip V. Allingham. [This image may be used without prior permission for any scholarly or educational purpose.]

There we stood, well squared up before the fire, shoulder to shoulder and foot to foot, with our hands behind us. My breakfast was put on [the] table, Drummle's was cleared away, the waiter invited me to begin, I nodded, we both stood our ground. [A slightly condensed form of the text in Chapter 43. 6* -- the quotation ends well into the shadow of the spine, so one cannot read the number of the page to which Furniss refers.]

References

Dickens, Charles. Great Expectations. Charles Dickens Library Edition. 18 vols. London: Educational Book Company, 1910. Vol 14.


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