Old Orlick Among the Cinders

Old Orlick Among the Cinders

Marcus Stone

Wood engraving

6 x 4 inches

"If any man in that neighbourhood could stand up long against Joe, I never saw the man. Orlick, as if he had been of no more account that the pale young gentleman, was very soon among the coal dust, and in no hurry to come out of it"

Dickens's Great Expectations, Garnett edition, facing p. 132.

Scanned image and text by Philip V. Allingham.

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