[Illustration: "WHAT A WONDERFUL MAN YOU ARE, FATHER! HOW ARE YOU FATHER? ARE YOU REALLY PRETTY HEARTY, THOUGH?" SAID WILLIAM, SHAKING HANDS WITH HIM AGAIN, AND PATTING HIM AGAIN, AND RUBBING HIM GENTLY DOWN AGAIN--_The Haunted Man_, chap. iii.] [Illustration: THE SEDATE FACE IN THE PORTRAIT, WITH THE BEARD AND RUFF, LOOKED DOWN AT THEM--_The Haunted Man_, chap. iii.] PICTURES FROM ITALY [Illustration] EIGHT ILLUSTRATIONS BY GORDON THOMSON [Illustration: THE MALLE POST--_Going Through France_] [Illustration: PLAYING AT MORA--_Genoa and its Neighbourhood_] [Illustration: THE CHURCH AND THE WORLD--_To Parma, Modena, and Bologna_] [Illustration: AN ITALIAN DREAM] [Illustration: A SKETCH AT THE CARNIVAL--_Rome_] [Illustration: ARTISTS' MODELS--_Rome_] [Illustration: PRIESTS AND MONKS--_A Rapid Diorama_] DEALINGS WITH THE FIRM OF DOMBEY AND SON WHOLESALE, RETAIL AND FOR EXPORTATION [Illustration] SIXTY-TWO ILLUSTRATIONS BY FRED BARNARD [Illustration: A THOROUGH CONTRAST IN ALL RESPECTS TO MR. DOMBEY--Chap. ii.] [Illustration: "I MAY BE FOND OF PENNYWINKLES, MRS. RICHARDS, BUT IT DON'T FOLLOW THAT I'M TO HAVE 'EM FOR TEA"--Chap. iii.] [Illustration: "SO HERE'S TO DOMBEY--AND SON--AND DAUGHTER"--Chap. iv.] [Illustration: MR. DOMBEY DISMOUNTING FIRST TO HELP THE LADIES OUT--Chap. v.] [Illustration: "WHY, WHAT CAN YOU WANT WITH DOMBEY AND SON'S!" ... "TO KNOW THE WAY THERE, IF YOU PLEASE."--Chap. vi.] [Illustration: FLORENCE OBEYED AS FAST AS HER TREMBLING HANDS WOULD ALLOW; KEEPING, ALL THE WHILE, A FRIGHTENED EYE ON MRS. BROWN--Chap. vi.] [Illustration: DOMBEY AND SON--Chap. viii.] [Illustration: LISTENING TO THE SEA--Chap. viii.] [Illustration: AND WHEN HE GOT THERE, SAT DOWN IN A CHAIR, AND FELL INTO A SILENT FIT OF LAUGHTER WITH WHICH HE WAS SOMETIMES SEIZED, AND WHICH WAS ALWAYS PARTICULARLY AWFUL--Chap. x.] [Illustration: WHEN THE DOCTOR SMILED AUSPICIOUSLY AT HIS AUTHOR, OR KNIT HIS BROWS, OR SHOOK HIS HEAD AND MADE WRY FACES AT HIM, AS MUCH AS TO SAY, "DON'T TELL ME, SIR; I KNOW BETTER," IT WAS TERRIFIC--Chap. xi.] [Illustration: "YOUR FATHER'S REGULARLY RICH, AIN'T HE!" INQUIRED MR. TOOTS. "YES, SIR," SAID PAUL; "HE'S DOMBEY AND SON"--Chap. xii.] [Illustration: "YOU RESPECT NOBODY, CARKER, I THINK," SAID MR. DOMBEY. "NO!" INQUIRED CARKER, WITH ANOTHER WIDE AND MOST FELINE SHOW OF HIS TEETH--Chap. xiii.] [Illustration: DURING THIS CONVERSATION, WALTER HAD LOOKED FROM ONE BROTHER TO THE OTHER WITH PAIN AND AMAZEMENT--Chap. xiii.] [Illustration: PAUL ALSO ASKED HIM, AS A PRACTICAL MAN, WHAT HE THOUGHT ABOUT KING ALFRED'S IDEA OF MEASURING TIME BY THE BURNING OF CANDLES, TO WHICH THE WORKMAN REPLIED THAT HE THOUGHT IT WOULD BE THE RUIN OF THE CLOCK TRADE IF IT WAS TO COME UP AGAIN--Chap. xiv.] [Illustration: THE BREAKING-UP PARTY AT DOCTOR BLIMBER'S--Chap. xiv.]