“Mr. Weller surveyed the attorney from head to foot with great admiration, “And what’ll you take, Sir?”
“Why, really,” replied Mr. Pell “you’re very _ Upon my word and honour, I’m not in the habit of _ It’s so very early in the morning, that, actually, I am almost _ Well, you may bring me three penn’orth of rum, my dear.” — Thomas Onwhyn's twenty-fifth extra illustration for Charles Dickens's “The Pickwick Club” (26 October 1837) (original) (raw)

“Mr. Weller surveyed the attorney from head to foot with great admiration, “And what’ll you take, Sir?”
“Why, really,” replied Mr. Pell. “. . . Well, you may bring me three penn’orth of rum, my dear.”

Thomas Onwhyn [“TO del”]

steel engraving

12.3 cm high by 10.7 cm wide (4 ¾ by 4 ¼ inches), vignetted

Charles Dickens’s The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, Chapter XLIII, “Showing how Mr. Samuel Weller Got into Difficulties,” facing 458.

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