[Illustration: "GET OUT WITH YOU. IF WE AIN'T GOOD ENOUGH FOR YOU, GO AND PROCURE SOMEBODY THAT IS GOOD ENOUGH. GO ALONG AND FIND 'EM"--Chap. lxiv.] [Illustration: "BUT I NEVER OWN TO IT BEFORE THE OLD GIRL. DISCIPLINE MUST BE MAINTAINED"--Chap. lxvi.] [Illustration: VOLUMNIA'S DEVOTION TO SIR LEICESTER--Chap. lxvi.] [Illustration] HARD TIMES [Illustration] TWENTY ILLUSTRATIONS BY H. FRENCH [Illustration: "LOUISA!! THOMAS!"--Chap. iii.] [Illustration: "THIS IS A VERY OBTRUSIVE LAD!" SAID MR. GRADGRIND--Chap. vi.] [Illustration: "HEAVEN'S MERCY, WOMAN!" HE CRIED, FALLING FARTHER OFF FROM THE FIGURE, "HAST THOU COME BACK AGEN!"--Chap. x.] [Illustration: "IT WOULD BE A FINE THING TO BE YOU, MISS LOUISA!"--Chap. ix.] [Illustration: HE FELT A TOUCH UPON HIS ARM--Chap. xii.] [Illustration: HE WENT DOWN ON HIS KNEE BEFORE HER ON THE POOR MEAN STAIRS, AND PUT AN END OF HER SHAWL TO HIS LIPS--Chap. xiv.] [Illustration: "WHAT A COMICAL BROTHER-IN-LAW YOU ARE!"--Book 2, chap. iii.] [Illustration: "LOUISA, MY DEAR, YOU ARE THE SUBJECT OF A PROPOSAL OF MARRIAGE THAT HAS BEEN MADE TO ME"--Chap. xv.] [Illustration: "THIS, SIR," SAID BOUNDERBY, "IS MY WIFE, MRS. BOUNDERBY"--Book 2, chap. ii.] [Illustration: "HEAVEN HELP US ALL IN THIS WORLD!"--Book 2, chap. v.] [Illustration: "MRS. BOUNDERBY, I ESTEEM IT A MOST FORTUNATE ACCIDENT THAT I FIND YOU ALONE HERE"--Book 2, chap. vii.] [Illustration: MRS. SPARSIT ADVANCED CLOSER TO THEM--Book 2, chap. xi.] [Illustration: LEFT ALONE WITH HER MOTHER, LOUISA SAW HER LYING WITH AN AWFUL LULL UPON HER FACE--Book 2, chap. ix] [Illustration: "I ONLY ENTREAT YOU TO BELIEVE, MY FAVOURITE CHILD, THAT I HAVE MEANT TO DO RIGHT"--Book 3, chap. i.] [Illustration: "YOU HAVE SEEN ME ONCE BEFORE, YOUNG LADY," SAID RACHAEL--Book 3, chap. iv.] [Illustration: "NOW, THETHILIA, I DON'T ATHK TO KNOW ANY THECRETH, BUT I THUPPOTHE I MAY CONTHIDER THITH TO BE MITH THQUIRE"--Book 3, chap. vii.] [Illustration: SHE STOOPED DOWN ON THE GRASS AT HIS SIDE, AND BENT OVER HIM--Book 3, chap. vi.] [Illustration: HERE WAS LOUISA, ON THE NIGHT OF THE SAME DAY, WATCHING THE FIRE AS IN THE DAYS OF YORE--Book 3, chap. ix.] [Illustration: HE DREW UP A PLACARD, OFFERING TWENTY POUNDS REWARD, FOR THE APPREHENSION OF STEPHEN BLACKWOOD--Book 3, chap. iv.] LITTLE DORRIT [Illustration] FIFTY-EIGHT ILLUSTRATIONS BY J. MAHONEY [Illustration: IN MARSEILLES THAT DAY THERE WAS A VILLAINOUS PRISON. IN ONE OF ITS CHAMBERS, SO REPULSIVE A PLACE, THAT EVEN THE OBTRUSIVE STARS BLINKED AT IT, AND LEFT IT TO SUCH REFUSE OF REFLECTED LIGHT AS IT COULD FIND FOR ITSELF, WERE TWO MEN--Book 1, chap. i.] [Illustration: "NOTHING CHANGED," SAID THE TRAVELLER, STOPPING TO LOOK ROUND. "DARK AND MISERABLE AS EVER"--Book 1, chap. iii.] [Illustration: THE OBSERVER STOOD WITH HER HAND UPON HER OWN BOSOM, LOOKING AT THE GIRL--Book 1, chap. ii.]