The instant she pronounced those last words . . . by Sydney P. Hall. 1874. Wood-engraving. Illustration for Wilkie Collins’s The Law and the Lady: A Novel as serialized in The Graphic 10 (19 December 1874): 589. Signed “Sydney Hall” lower left corner. Click on image to enlarge it.
The complete text beneath the image: “The instant she pronounced those last words, ‘Eustace Macallan’s second wife,’ the man in the chair sprang out of it with a shrill cry of horror, as if she had shot him. For one moment we saw a head and body in the air, absolutely deprived of lower limbs. The moment after, the terrible creature touched the floor lightly as a monkey on his hands.”
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Bibliography
Collins, Wilkie. The Law and the Lady: A Novel. The Graphic 10 (12 December 1874): 589. Hathi Trust online version of a copy in the New York Public Library. Web. 27 July 2021.
Last modified 28 July 2021