[Illustration: DIFFERENT WOMEN OF THE HOUSE GOSSIPING ON THE STEPS ... THE NATIVE DIALLERS--_Scenes_, chap. v.] [Illustration: IT WAS A WEDDING PARTY AND SKETCHED FROM ONE OF THE INTERIOR STREETS NEAR FITZROY SQUARE--_Scenes_, chap. vii.] [Illustration: THE GENTLEMAN DESCRIBED LOOKS EXTREMELY FOOLISH, AND SQUEEZES HER HAND, AND FEES THE GIPSY LIBERALLY--_Scenes_, chap. xii.] [Illustration: "I MAY AS WELL GET BOARD, LODGIN', AND WASHIN' TILL THEN, OUT OF THE COUNTRY, AS PAY FOR IT MYSELF; CONSEQUENTLY HERE GOES"--_Scenes_, chap. xvii.] [Illustration: "HIS LINE IS GENTEEL COMEDY--HIS FATHER'S COAL AND POTATO. HE DOES ALFRED HIGHFLIER IN THE LAST PIECE, AND VERY WELL HE'LL DO IT--AT THE PRICE."--_Scenes_, chap. xiv.] [Illustration: TUREENS OF SOUP ARE EMPTIED WITH AWFUL RAPIDITY--_Scenes_, chap. x. 19] [Illustration: A GIN-SHOP--_Scenes_, chap. xxii.] [Illustration: THE PAWNBROKER'S SHOP--_Scenes_, chap. xxiii.] [Illustration: CHILDREN WERE PLAYING ON THE GRASS; GROUPS ... CHATTING AND LAUGHING; BUT THE MAN WALKED STEADILY UP AND DOWN, UNHEEDING AND UNHEEDED--_Characters_, chap. i.] [Illustration: "WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY THAT, SCOUNDREL?" EXCLAIMED MR. SAMUEL WILKINS.... "WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH YOU, YOU LITTLE HUMBUG?" REPLIED WHISKERS--_Characters_, chap. iv.] [Illustration: THE PRISONERS' VAN--_Characters_, chap. xii.] [Illustration: HURRYING ALONG A BY-STREET, KEEPING AS CLOSE AS HE CAN TO THE AREA RAILINGS, A MAN OF ABOUT FORTY OR FIFTY, CLAD IN AN OLD RUSTY SUIT OF THREADBARE BLACK CLOTH--_Characters_, chap. x.] [Illustration: "I RECEIVED A NOTE"--HE SAID TREMULOUSLY, IN A VOICE LIKE A PUNCH WITH A COLD--"YES," RETURNED THE OTHER, "YOU DID,"--"EXACTLY,"-- "YES"--_Tales_, Chap. i.] [Illustration: "NO WHAT?" INQUIRED MRS. BLOSS WITH A LOOK OF THE MOST INDESCRIBABLE ALARM "NO STOMACH," REPEATED MRS. TIBBS WITH A SHAKE OF THE HEAD--_Tales_, chap. i.] [Illustration: THE DEAR LITTLE FELLOW, HAVING RECOVERED HIS ANIMAL SPIRITS, WAS STANDING UPON HER SOFT TENDER FOOT--_Tales_, chap. iii.] [Illustration: "SO EXACTLY THE AIR OF THE MARQUIS," SAID THE MILITARY GENTLEMAN--_Tales_, chap. iv.] [Illustration: "HOW DELIGHTFUL, HOW REFRESHING IT IS, TO RETIRE FROM THE CLOUDY STORMS, THE VICISSITUDES, AND THE TROUBLES OF LIFE, EVEN IF IT BE BUT FOR A FEW FLEETING MOMENTS."--_Tales_, chap. v.] [Illustration: "WHO WAS HE?" INQUIRED THE SURGEON. "MY SON!" REJOINED THE WOMAN; AND FELL SENSELESS AT HIS FEET--_Tales_, chap. vi.] [Illustration: THE FACETIOUS HARDY, IN FULFILMENT OF HIS PROMISE, HAD WATCHED THE CHILD TO A REMOTE PART OF THE VESSEL, AND, SUDDENLY APPEARING BEFORE HIM WITH THE MOST AWFUL CONTORTIONS OF VISAGE, HAD PRODUCED HIS PAROXYSMS OF TERROR--_Tales_, chap. vii.]