There was but one lady who seemed to understand the child, and she was one who sat alone in a handsome carriage. — positioned in Chap. XX. Charles Green. 1876. 9.7 cm high by x 13.8 cm wide. Dickens's The Old Curiosity Shop, in the 1876 British Household Edition, IV: 76. [Click on the image to enlarge it.]
Passage Illustrated: Nell attracts a Lady's sympathy at the Races
. . . others cried to the gentlemen beside them "See, what a pretty face!" they let the pretty face pass on, and never thought that it looked tired or hungry.
There was but one lady who seemed to understand the child, and she was one who sat alone in a handsome carriage, while two young men in dashing clothes, who had just dismounted from it, talked and laughed loudly at a little distance, appearing to forget her, quite. There were many ladies all around, but they turned their backs, or looked another way, or at the two young men (not unfavourably at them), and left her to herself. She motioned away a gipsy-woman urgent to tell her fortune, saying that it was told already and had been for some years, but called the child towards her, and taking her flowers put money into her trembling hand, and bade her go home and keep at home for God’s sake. [Chapter XIX, 74]
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Bibliography
Dickens, Charles. The Old Curiosity Shop. Illustrated by Charles Green. The Household Edition. 22 vols. London: Chapman and Hall, 1876. XII.
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