The Four Sisters. Where on earth the husband came from, by what feelings the poor man could have been actuated, or by what process of reasoning the four Miss Willises succeeded in persuading themselves that it was possible for a man to marry one of them, whithout marrying all, are questions too profound for us to resolve. Illustration by Harry Furniss for Sketches by Boz by Charles Dickens, from The Testimonial Edition, published 1910.