The morning call., 1894-10-16

In BLEAK House." my dear fellow. I
don't pay my debts because [ can I recko :;
L know nothing about figures" and 81
wish L might go and visit friend, stay
twenty wears and do nothing but sit under
the trees and look at the sky," favored
sentiments of kimpole. did not seem al
all humorous to Leigh Hunt.
Mrs. Pipchin, who cared for Paul Dom
bey, was in real life woman who kept a
small lodging house when the great novel
ist was tiny boy working in shoe-polish
es ablishmeDt. The Marchioness of the
Old Curiosity Shop" was suggested by
the sharp manner ana quick wit of faitlI-
ful servant who attended the elder Dick
ems family during their days of poverty
in The Marshalsea.
Dickens not only used his acquaiutances
but hiS relatives as we'll in bis pen paint
ing. His father did not escape him. and il
Is averred by some that Dickens Sr. was
the original of the Father o. the Marshal
sea" in Little Dorrit," while the novelist
himself admitted that the hopeful Micaw-
Der, who never spoke without rhetorical
spasm, was very like his father.
From his own childhood ne drew nearly
all OF his popular child characters, and
little David Copperfed and Pip, whom
Mrs. Jo'' brought up by hand" we're
identical with that very poorly cared for
boy Charles Dickens.
notwithstanding all that has been writ
ten of the source of Dickens characters.
no one has told of The origin of Miss
Havisham. That we riest, most uncanny
creation OF Dickens brain has been left to
be unrave!ed by an odd waterfront indi-
vidual, now dead, who for years was
known in this city by the sole title of "Old
Fuller"
'Od Fuller" was as fond of ale as any
Englshmau that ever lived, and it occa-
stoned no little surprise when he stopped
drinking and began saving his money for
a trip back tn ''desr old Lunnon." When
he returned from his native country after
few months this story had fastened itself
most fixrdly in his mind. One reason why
Old Fuller" may be accredited with the
discovery of the original model for Miss
Havsham is that he had never hearl of
Charles Dickens. and was totally ignorant
as to whether he was novelist or carpen-
ter.
'Old Fuller's" story runs like this. When
he was small boy in London he knew with
awe smart, spruce young liQuor-dealer.
Temperate, bright and ambitious, he was
on the high road to wealth. As he had
been "Old Fuller's" ideal of all that was
great when he visited London he took
particular care to hunt him up.
Instead of the gallant manly young fell
low was shunken shriveled old frame,
hair that for twenty years had not been
cut, and flesh sallow from lack of bathing.
Tie clothes that be wore bad never been
removed in that space, and his apartments
during that time had not been swept. In
the dining-room an extensive banquet had
been prepared, and a cruIDbled wedding
cake was there which the rats were de.
vouring.
The cause Of this change in the hale,
hearty Euglishman is common enough not
to cause comment-h;s bptrothed deserted
him at the altar, as had Miss Havisham's
lover twenty-five years before. For two
decades he had lived in seclusion uumind-
full of every thing but that day. He never
removed his wedding suit, or allowed his
chambers to be changed in the minutes,
detail. So he became known blythe lovers
of the curious throughout London az
DIRTY BILL
thc jiibCu mleo uISHp-
Dointment lett him but dazed, listless,
purposeless, aged man, waiting calmly for
the false woman to return to him. Miss
HaviSham. on the contrary. being q
woman. could not forget the slight to heI
charms, and became vindictivs. The van.
ity of a woman scorned" was too much
affected for her TO suffer silently in soil.
tude, and so, in Great pectatons," Miss
Havisham rears the beautiful Stella that
through her, she nav be able to rejoice iu
that deep, overwhelming intoxicant-re-
venge.
She even sends for the poor little Pip
a blacksmith's apprentice, that he may
love Stella hopelesaly. The devil could
not shout more gieefully over lost sou
than aid Miss Havisham internally when
she saw that by separating Pip and Stella
she had wrecked bis life.
1t was only after years of unhappinss,
that both wandered back to the house
where they first met. ana Pip was able tC
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