Father Time, seated on the globe, averts his eyes from the venal scenes depicted in the money-bags around him, involving the fraudulent financier Augustus Melmotte. Wood engraving by H. Linton after F. Barnard.

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Melmotte, Augustus (Fictitious character)

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Father Time, seated on the globe, averts his eyes from the venal scenes depicted in the money-bags around him, involving the fraudulent financier Augustus Melmotte. Wood engraving by H. Linton after F. Barnard.