Initial letter T Vignette, "Pounding along a Dark Road," by George du Maurier for William Black's <span class="book">Three Feathers</span> (June 1875)

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Initial letter "T" vignette: "Pounding along a dark road"

George du Maurier

June 1875

7.2 cm high by 6.3 cm wide (3 by 2 ½ inches), vignetted.

The Cornhill Magazine (31): 660.

Du Maurier's vignette illustration for Ch. 36, Three Feathers (June 1875) by William Black.

Scanned image and text by Philip V. Allingham.

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Passage Illustrated: George Rosewarne's Dangerous Mid-night Ride

Pounding along a dark road, with the consciousness that the further you go the further you've got to get back, and that the distance still to be done is an indeterminate quantity, is agreeable to no one; but it was especially vexatious to George Rosewarne, who liked to take things quietly, and could not understand what all the fuss was about. Why should he be sent on this mad chase at mid-night? If anybody wanted to marry either of the girls, why didn't he do so, and say no more about it? Rosewarne had been impatient and annoyed when he set out; but the longer he rode, and the more he communed with himself, the deeper grew his sense of personal injury that had been done him by this act of folly.

It was a very lonely ride indeed. There was not a human abroad at that hour. [Chapter XXXVI, "Into Captivity," 643]

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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