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The Lovely Woman has her Fortune told Marcus Stone

Wood engraving by W. T. Green

13.7 cm high x 9.3 cm wide, framed (facing p. 536).

Stone's illustration for Book 3, "A Long Lane," Chapter 16, ""The Feast of the Three Hobgoblins," appeared in the July, 1865, instalment. The scene, however, is not R. W.'s office, where earlier in the day Bella and John Rokesmith announced their engagement and celebrated in the "hobgoblins'" feast of penny-loaves and milk with Bella's father. Rather, the scene realised occurs towards the end of the chapter when, Bella having announced that she has left the Boffins on a matter of principle, she returns to the family dining room after her sister Lavvy and her mother have gone to bed. There she promises her father that he will always have a place in their modest, middle-class home. Although Stone is accurate and consistent in his depiction of R. W., his figure of Bella does not resemble stronger representations of the "Boofer Lady" and he has failed to capture either the touching sentimentality or the father-daughter playfulness of Dickens's deftly written scene. There is no "twinkle" in the eyes of this R. W., and no sportiveness in the expression of this Bella, whose triumph over her former mercenary principles should be evident here. Despite the fact that we cannot see her toes, however, Stone has given us a fetching profile of Bella in her nightgown, with her hair (rather lighter than in previous illustration) down and a brush in her left hand as her father tenderly holds her right.

Scanned image and text by Philip V. Allingham.

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