[Illustration: WILLING SOPHY DOWN UPON HER KNEES SCRUBBING EARLY AND LATE AND EVER CHEERFUL BUT ALWAYS SMILING WITH A BLACK FACE--_Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings_, chap. i.] [Illustration: "COME, SIR! REMOVE ME TO MY VILE DUNGEON. WHERE IS MY MOULDY STRAW!"--_Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy_, chap. i.] [Illustration: AND AT LAST SITTING DOZING AGAINST A MUDDY CART WHEEL, I COME UPON THE POOR GIRL WHO WAS DEAF AND DUMB--_Dr. Marigold_] [Illustration: WHILE I WAS SPEAKING TO HIM, I SAW IT OPEN, AND A MAN LOOK IN, WHO VERY EARNESTLY AND MYSTERIOUSLY BECKONED TO ME--_Two Ghost Stories_, I.] [Illustration: "I TOOK YOU FOR SOME ONE ELSE YESTERDAY EVENING. THAT TROUBLES ME"--_Two Ghost Stories_, II.] [Illustration: "WHAT WOULD YOU DO WITH TWOPENCE, IF I GAVE IT YOU!"... "'PEND IT"--_Mugby Junction_, chap. ii.] [Illustration: COTCHED THE DECANTER OUT OF HIS HAND, AND SAID "PUT IT DOWN, I WON'T ALLOW THAT!"--_Mugby Junction_, chap. iii.] [Illustration: "IT'S FROM THE BEST CORNER OF OUR BEST FORTY-FIVE-YEAR-OLD BIN," SAID MR. WILDING.... "THANK YOU, SIR," SAID MR. BINTRY. "IT'S MOST EXCELLENT"--_No Thoroughfare_, Act i.] [Illustration: "WE ARE FAMOUS FOR THE GROWTH IN THIS VAULT, AREN'T WE!"--_No Thoroughfare_, Act i.] [Illustration: "IF THERE HAD BEEN A WRESTLE WITH A ROBBER, AS I DREAMED," SAID OBENREIZER, "YOU SEE I WAS STRIPPED FOR IT."... "AND ARMED TOO," SAID VENDALE, GLANCING AT HIS GIRDLE--_No Thoroughfare_, Act iii.] [Illustration: HE BECAME ROUSED TO THE KNOWLEDGE THAT OBENREIZER HAD SET UPON HIM, AND THAT THEY WERE STRUGGLING DESPERATELY IN THE SNOW--_No Thoroughfare_, Act iii.] [Illustration: AT THE SIDE DOOR OF THE CHURCH ARE THE SAME TWO MEN FROM THE HOSPICE--_No Thoroughfare_, Act iv.] THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD TWELVE ILLUSTRATIONS BY SIR LUKE FILDES, R.A. [Illustration: IN THE COURT--Chap. i.] [Illustration: UNDER THE TREES--Chap. iii.] [Illustration: AT THE PIANO--Chap. vii.] [Illustration: ON DANGEROUS GROUND--Chap. viii.] [Illustration: MR. CRISPARKLE IS OVERPAID--Chap. x.] [Illustration: DURDLES CAUTIONS MR. SAPSEA AGAINST BOASTING--Chap. xii.] [Illustration: "GOOD-BYE, ROSEBUD, DARLING!"--Chap. xiii.] [Illustration: MR. GREWGIOUS HAS HIS SUSPICIONS--Chap. xv.] [Illustration: JASPER'S SACRIFICES--Chap. xix.] [Illustration: MR. GREWGIOUS EXPERIENCES A NEW SENSATION--Chap. xx.] [Illustration: UP THE RIVER--Chap. xxii.] [Illustration: SLEEPING IT OFF--Chap. xxiii.] THE LIFE OF CHARLES DICKENS [Illustration] TWENTY-EIGHT ILLUSTRATIONS BY FRED BARNARD [Illustration: IF HE WEAKLY SHOWED THE LEAST DISPOSITION TO HEAR IT, CAPTAIN PORTER, IN A LOUD SONOROUS VOICE, GAVE HIM EVERY WORD OF IT--Book 1, chap. ii.] [Illustration: ONE OF WHOM TOLD US SHE "HAD NO MONEY FOR BEGGAR BOYS"--Book 1, chap. iii.] [Illustration: JACK STRAW'S CASTLE, MEMORABLE FOR MANY HAPPY MEETINGS IN COMING YEARS--Book 2, chap. i.]