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Mr. Jasper Receives a Visitor
1914
Wood-engraving
13.3 cm high by 10.2 cm wide, or 5 ¼ by 4 inches, framed, p. 301
Zoffany Oldfield
Charles Dickens's The Mystery of Edwin Drood (completed by W. E. C.)
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On hearing the knock at the door he called down stairs to Mrs. Tope that he would open the door himself, and immediately proceeded to put his words into action. The passage leading from the front door waas fairly dark even on a bright summer's day, owing to the shade cast by the old gateway, and this prevented Mr. Jasper from recognizing his visitor; he noticed only a shabbily-dressed old woman whom he supposed to have come on a begging expedition.
"What do you want?" he said gruffly. "It will be of no use begging from me, so you had better be off and you be wasting your time — or, what is more important, you won't waste mine."
"Don't you know me, deary?" said the woman with a vacuous smile. [Chapter XXVI, "Mr. Jasper Has a Visitor," 297]
Dickens, Charles. The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Illustrated by Sir Luke Fildes, R. A. London: Chapman and Hall Limited, 193, Piccadilly. 1870.
_______. The Mystery of Edwin Drood and Reprinted Pieces. Charles Dickens. With Illustrations by S. Luke Fildes, R. A., E. G. Dalziel, and F. Barnard. The Household Edition. 22 vols. London: Chapman and Hall, 1879, Vol. XX.
Dickens, Charles, and W. E. C[risp]. The Mystery of Edwin Drood, ed. Mary L. C. Grant. New text drawings by Zoffany Oldfield. London: J. M. Ouseley, 9 John Street, Adelphi, 1914.
Forster, John. The Life of Charles Dickens. Illustrated by Fred Barnard. 22 vols. London: Chapman & Hall, 1879. Vol. XXII.
Walters, J. Cuming. The Complete Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens: The History, Continuations, and Solutions (1870-1912). Illustrated by Luke Fildes and Frederic G. Kitton. London: Chapman and Hall, 1912.
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