Evan Harrington - 13 - Scornful Young Men

Illustration for Chapter 14 of Evan Harrington, Once a Week magazine, Volume 2, page 331. Depicts the behaviour of Harry Jocelyn & friends after finding out that one of the guests at Beckley is a tailor. "[The Countess] heard, through her open window, the voices of some young men laughing. She beheld her brother pass these young men, and bow to them. She beheld them stare at him without at all returning his salute, and then one of them—the same who had filled her ears with venom at Fallowfield [i.e. Harry]—turned to the others and laughed outrageously, crying: 'By Jove! this comes it strong. Fancy the snipocracy here—eh?'" The characters depicted are probably: left, Harry; right, Ferdinand Laxley; middle, someone who doesn't play a role in the novel.