Then everybody adjourned to a snug little smoking room — eleventh regular illustration by George du Maurier for William Black's Three Feathers. 10.2 cm high by 15.9 cm wide (4 inches high by 6 ¼ inches wide), facing p. 641, framed: Chapter XXXVI, "Into Captivity," in The Cornhill Magazine, Vol. XXXI (June 1875). [Click on the image to enlarge it.]
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There was little talking, of course, during the card-playing; at the end of it Mr. Roscorla found he had only half-a-sovereign. Then everybody adjourned to a snug little smoking room, to which only members were admitted. This, to the neophyte, was the pleasantest part of the evening. He seemed to hear of everything that was going on in London — and a good deal more besides. He was behind the scenes of all the commercial, social, political performances which were causing the vulgar crowd to gape. He discovered the true history of the hostility shown by So-and-so to the Premier; he was told of the little scandal which caused Her Majesty to refuse a knight to a certain gentleman who had claims on the Government; he heard what the Duke really did offer the gamekeeper whose eye he had shot out. . . . He forgot that he had heard quite similar stories twenty years before. [Chapter XXXVI, "Into Captivity," 660]
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Bibliography
Allingham, Philip V. "The Illustrations for William Black's Three Feathers." (2001).
Black, William. Three Feathers. Illustrated by George du Maurier. The Cornhill Magazine, Vols. XXX & XXXI (August 1874 through June 1875).
Black, William. Three Feathers: A Novel. Illustrated by George du Maurier. London: Sampson Low, Marston, 1875. 3 vols. Rpt., 1892 in a single volume.
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