| Caption | Colonel Altamont refuses to move on. Illustration for The History of Pendennis by William Makepeace Thackeray (Caxton, c 1910). |
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Colonel Altamont " with very black hair and whiskers, dyed evidentlywith the purple of Tyre," who was in the service of the " Nawab of Lucknow " and who appears' a sad rascal in the pages of Pendennis
