"Times is changed, ain't they? I say, how you've growed!" (1872). Thirty-fourth Illustration by Fred Barnard for Dickens's Martin Chuzzlewit (Chapter XXVIII, "Mr. Montague at Home. And Mr. Jonas Chuzzlewit at Home"), page 233, in the Household Edition. [Here, Jonas Chuzzlewit encounters Bailey Junior, now a liveried servant at Tigg Montague's establishment and risen far above the tawdry world of Mrs. Todgers's rooming-house.] 9.4 cm x 13.8 cm (4 ¼ high by 5 ½ inches). Running head: "Jonas with a Drop Too Much." [Click on the image to enlarge it.]
Passage Illustrated: Jonas Suddenly Recognizes Bailey from Todgers's
Right: Phiz's description of Montague Tigg and his board of directors: The Board (November 1843).
It was with a faltering hand, and yet with an imbecile attempt at a swagger, that he knocked at his new friend’s door in Pall Mall when the appointed hour arrived. Mr Bailey quickly answered to the summons. He was not proud and was kindly disposed to take notice of Jonas; but Jonas had forgotten him.
"Mr. Montague at home?"
"I should hope he wos at home, and waiting dinner, too," said Bailey, with the ease of an old acquaintance. ‘Will you take your hat up along with you, or leave it here?"
Mr. Jonas preferred leaving it there.
"The hold name, I suppose?" said Bailey, with a grin.
Mr. Jonas stared at him in mute indignation.
"What, don’t you remember hold mother Todgers’s?" said Mr. Bailey, with his favourite action of the knees and boots. "Don’t you remember my taking your name up to the young ladies, when you came a-courting there? A reg’lar scaly old shop, warn’t it? Times is changed ain’t they. I say how you’ve growed!"
Without pausing for any acknowledgement of this compliment, he ushered the visitor upstairs, and having announced him, retired with a private wink. [Chapter XXVIII, "Mr. Montague at Home. And Mr. Jonas Chuzzlewit at Home," 229. Running Head: "Mr. Montague Gives a Dinner."]
Commentary: Deceptive Appearances
How can we expect Jonas not to be inveigled into investing in the Anglo-Bengalee Life Assurance Company when he cannot even recognize the Boots, Mr. Bailey, Junior, from Mrs. Todgers's rooming-house? When Jonas goes to visit the Chair of the Anglo-Bengalee Board, he encounters Bailey translated intro a stylishly liveried footman — and initially fails to recognize the boy. Jonas is beguiled by the beautiful appearances of Mr. Montague's possessions, and fails to penetrate beneath the glittering surface to detect the scam. Jonas eats and drinks so liberally at Mr. Montague's sumptuous table that Bailey must see him home at the end of the night.
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