s having been seen by us together in
Newgate), who was among the convicts there under sentence of
transportation, and who had contrived somehow to put the expression of
his own wickedness into the portrait of a nice kind-hearted girl. Major
Power knew nothing of the man's previous history at this time, and had
employed him on the painting out of a sort of charity. As soon as the
truth went back, Wainewright was excluded from houses before open to
him, and shortly after died very miserably. What Reynolds said of
portrait painting, to explain its frequent want of refinement, that a
man could only put into a face what he had in himself, was forcibly
shown in this incident. The villain's story altogether moved Dickens to
the same interest as it had excited in another profound student of
humanity (Sir Edward Lytton), and, as will be seen, he also introduced
him into one of his later writings.

[135] ". . . I am horrified to find that the first chapter makes _at
least_ two pages less than I had supposed, and I have a terrible
apprehension that there will not be copy enough for the number! As it
could not possibly come out short, and as there would be no greater
possibility of sending to me, in this short month, to supply what may be
wanted, I decide--after the first burst of nervousness is gone--_to
follow this letter by Diligence to-morrow morning_. The malle poste is
full for days and days. I shall hope to be with you some time on
Friday." C. D. to J. F. Paris: Wednesday, 17th February, 1847.

THE LIFE

OF

CHARLES DICKENS

BY

JOHN FORSTER.

THREE VOLUMES IN TWO.

VOL. II.

BOSTON:
JAMES R. OSGOOD & COMPANY,
(LATE TICKNOR & FIELDS, AND FIELDS, OSGOOD, & CO.)
1875.

CHAPTER XVI.

DOMBEY AND SON.

1846-1848.

Drift of the Tale--Why undervalued--Mistakes of
Critics--Adherence to First Design--Design as
to Paul and Sister--As to Dombey and
Daughter--Real Character of Hero--Walter
Gay--Omissions proposed--Anxiety as to Face of
his Hero--Passage of Original MS.
omitted--Artist-fancies for Mr. Dombey--Dickens
and his Illustrators--Hints for Artist--Letter
to Cruikshank--An Experience of Ben
Jonson's--Sale of the First Number--A Reading
of the Second Number--Scene at Mrs.
Pipchin's--The Mrs. Pipchin of his
Childhood--First Thought of his
Autobiograph