[Illustration: AND READING SOFTLY TO HIMSELF, IN THE LITTLE BACK PARLOUR, AND STOPPING NOW AND THEN TO WIPE HIS EYES, THE CAPTAIN, IN A TRUE AND SIMPLE SPIRIT, COMMITTED WALTER'S BODY TO THE DEEP--Chap. xxxii.] [Illustration: A CERTAIN SKILFUL ACTION OF HIS FINGERS AS HE HUMMED SOME BARS, AND BEAT TIME ON THE SEAT BESIDE HIM, SEEMED TO DENOTE THE MUSICIAN--Chap. xxxiii.] [Illustration: "SHE'S COME BACK HARDER THAN SHE WENT!" CRIED THE MOTHER, LOOKING UP IN HER FACE, AND STILL HOLDING TO HER KNEES--Chap. xxxiv.] [Illustration: WITHERS, MEETING HIM ON THE STAIRS, STOOD AMAZED AT THE BEAUTY OF HIS TEETH, AND AT HIS BRILLIANT SMILE--Chap. xxxvii.] [Illustration: RAN SNIGGERING OFF TO GET CHANGE, AND TOSSED IT AWAY WITH A PIEMAN--Chap. xxxviii.] [Illustration: "AND YOU'RE A-GOING TO DESERT YOUR COLOURS, ARE YOU, MY LAD," SAID THE CAPTAIN, AFTER A LONG EXAMINATION OF HIS FACE--Chap. xxxix.] [Illustration: MR. TOOTS REPLIES BY LAUNCHING WILDLY OUT INTO MISS DOMBEY'S PRAISES, AND BY INSINUATIONS THAT SOMETIMES HE THINKS HE SHOULD LIKE TO BLOW HIS BRAINS OUT--Chap. xli.] [Illustration: "DOMBEY," SAYS COUSIN FEENIX, "UPON MY SOUL, I AM VERY MUCH SHOCKED TO SEE YOU ON SUCH A MELANCHOLY OCCASION"--Chap. xli.] [Illustration: "DO YOU CALL IT MANAGING THIS ESTABLISHMENT, MADAM," SAID MR. DOMBEY, "TO LEAVE A PERSON LIKE THIS AT LIBERTY TO COME AND TALK TO ME!"--Chap. xliv.] [Illustration: "MISS DOMBEY," RETURNED MR. TOOTS, "IF YOU'LL ONLY NAME ONE, YOU'LL--YOU'LL GIVE ME AN APPETITE. TO WHICH," SAID MR. TOOTS, WITH SOME SENTIMENT, "I HAVE LONG BEEN A STRANGER"--Chap. xliv.] [Illustration: FLUNG IT DOWN, AND TROD UPON THE GLITTERING HEAP--Chap. xlvii.] [Illustration: THROWN DOWN IN A COSTLY MASS UPON THE GROUND WAS EVERY ORNAMENT SHE HAD HAD SINCE SHE HAD BEEN HIS WIFE; EVERY DRESS SHE HAD WORN; AND EVERYTHING SHE HAD POSSESSED--Chap. xlvii.] [Illustration: FLORENCE MADE A MOTION WITH HER HAND TOWARDS HIM, REELED AND FELL UPON THE FLOOR--Chap. xlviii.] [Illustration: WHEN HE HAD FILLED HIS PIPE IN AN ABSOLUTE REVERIE OF SATISFACTION, FLORENCE LIGHTED IT FOR HIM--Chap. xlix.] [Illustration: BLESSED TWILIGHT STEALING ON, AND SHADING HER SO SOOTHINGLY AND GRAVELY AS SHE FALLS ASLEEP, LIKE A HUSHED CHILD, UPON THE BOSOM SHE HAS CLUNG TO!--Chap. l.] [Illustration: IT APPEARS THAT HE MET EVERYBODY CONCERNED IN THE LATE TRANSACTION, EVERYWHERE, AND SAID TO THEM, "SIR," OR "MADAM," AS THE CASE WAS, "WHY DO YOU LOOK SO PALE!" AT WHICH EACH SHUDDERED FROM HEAD TO FOOT, AND SAID, "OH, PERCH!" AND RAN AWAY--Chap. li.] [Illustration: D. I. J. O. N--Chap. lii.] [Illustration: STILL UPON HER KNEES, AND WITH HER EYES UPON THE FIRE--Chap. liii.] [Illustration: HE SAW THE FACE CHANGE FROM ITS VINDICTIVE PASSION TO A FAINT SICKNESS AND TERROR--Chap. lv.] [Illustration: AFTER THIS, HE SMOKED FOUR PIPES SUCCESSIVELY IN THE LITTLE PARLOUR BY HIMSELF, AND WAS DISCOVERED CHUCKLING AT THE EXPIRATION OF AS MANY HOURS--Chap. lvi.]