[Illustration: AS ARTHUR CAME OVER THE STYLE AND DOWN TO THE WATER'S EDGE, THE LOUNGER GLANCED AT HIM FOR A MOMENT AND THEN RESUMED HIS OCCUPATION OF IDLY TOSSING STONES INTO THE WATER WITH HIS FOOT.--Book 1, chap. xvii.] [Illustration: "O DON'T CRY!" SAID LITTLE DORRIT PITEOUSLY. "DON'T, DON'T! GOOD-BYE, JOHN. GOD BLESS YOU!" "GOOD-BYE, MISS AMY. GOOD-BYE!" AND SO HE LEFT HER--Book 1, chap, xviii.] [Illustration: AS SHE STOOD BEHIND HIM, LEANING OVER HIS CHAIR SO LOVINGLY, HE LOOKED WITH DOWNCAST EYES AT THE FIRE. AN UNEASINESS STOLE OVER HIM THAT WAS LIKE A TOUCH OF SHAME; AND WHEN HE SPOKE, AS HE PRESENTLY DID, IT WAS IN AN UNCONNECTED AND EMBARRASSED MANNER--Book 1, chap. xix.] [Illustration: THEY SPOKE NO MORE, ALL THE WAY BACK TO THE LODGING WHERE FANNY AND HER UNCLE LIVED. WHEN THEY ARRIVED THERE THEY FOUND THE OLD MAN PRACTISING HIS CLARIONET IN THE DOLEFULLEST MANNER IN A CORNER OF THE ROOM--Book 1, chap. xx.] [Illustration: ARTHUR CLENNAM WITH THE CARD IN HIS HAND, BETOOK HIMSELF TO THE ADDRESS SET FORTH ON IT, AND SPEEDILY ARRIVED THERE. IT WAS A VERY SMALL ESTABLISHMENT, WHEREIN A DECENT WOMAN SAT BEHIND THE COUNTER WORKING AT HER NEEDLE--Book 1, chap. xxii.] [Illustration: "WHAT NIMBLE FINGERS YOU HAVE," SAID FLORA, "BUT ARE YOU SURE YOU ARE WELL?" ... "OH YES, INDEED!" FLORA PUT HER FEET UPON THE FENDER AND SETTLED HERSELF FOR A THOROUGH GOOD ROMANTIC DISCLOSURE--Book 1, chap. xxiv.] [Illustration: MOUNTING TO HIS ATTIC, ATTENDED BY MRS. PLORNISH AS INTERPRETER, HE FOUND MR. BAPTIST WITH NO FURNITURE BUT HIS BED ON THE GROUND, A TABLE AND A CHAIR, CARVING WITH THE AID OF A FEW SIMPLE TOOLS, IN THE BLITHEST WAY POSSIBLE. "NOW, OLD CHAP," SAID MR. PANCKS, "PAY UP!"--Book 1, chap. xxxiii.] [Illustration: MR. DOYCE HAD BEEN TO TWICKENHAM TO PASS THE DAY. CLENNAM HAD EXCUSED HIMSELF, MR. DOYCE WAS JUST COME HOME. HE PUT IN HIS HEAD AT THE DOOR OF CLENNAM'S SITTING-ROOM TO SAY GOOD NIGHT. "COME IN, COME IN!" SAID CLENNAM--Book 1, chap. xxvi.] [Illustration: HE WAS SLOWLY RESUMING HIS WAY, WHEN HE SAW A FIGURE IN THE PATH BEFORE HIM WHICH HE HAD, PERHAPS, ALREADY ASSOCIATED WITH THE EVENING AND ITS IMPRESSIONS. MINNIE WAS THERE ALONE--Book 1, chap. xxviii.] [Illustration: WHY SHE SHOULD THEN STOOP DOWN AND LOOK IN AT THE KEY-HOLE OF THE DOOR, AS IF AN EYE WOULD OPEN IT, IT WOULD BE DIFFICULT TO SAY. FROM THIS POSTURE SHE STARTED SUDDENLY, WITH A HALF SCREAM, FEELING SOMETHING ON HER SHOULDER. IT WAS THE TOUCH OF A HAND; OF A MAN'S HAND--Book 1, chap. xxix.] [Illustration: THE STRANGER, TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THIS FITFUL ILLUMINATION OF HIS VISAGE, LOOKED INTENTLY AND WONDERINGLY AT HIM--Book 1, chap. xxx.] [Illustration: ON THEIR ARRIVAL AT MR. BLANDOIS'S ROOM, A BOTTLE OF PORT WINE WAS ORDERED BY THAT GALLANT GENTLEMAN; WHO COILED HIMSELF UP ON THE WINDOW-SEAT, WHILE MR. FLINTWINCH TOOK A CHAIR OPPOSITE TO HIM, WITH THE TABLE BETWEEN THEM--Book 1, chap. xxx.]