Headnote Vignette: Book III, "The Track of a Storm," Chapter XV, "The Footsteps Die Out Forever."

7 cm high by 4.3 cm wide (3 inches by 1 ¾ inches)

The thirty-first instalment of the novel appeared in Harper's Weekly (3 December 1859): 781; it had originally appeared in the UK on Saturday, 26 November in All the Year Round

The distorted, caricatural visages of the Harpy-like knitters at the foot of St. Guillotine are a comic foil for the earnest passions in the romantic scene of self-sacrifice that concludes the American serialisation. The angular form who presides over the witch-like "sisterhood" of the fate-like knitters is, of course, the familiar figure of The Vengeance from St. Antoine.

Scanned image by Philip V. Allingham; text by PVA and George P. Landow.

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