''Now,' said Henchard between gasps, 'Your life is in my hands.

"'Now,' said Henchard between gasps, 'Your life is in my hands.'" Robert Barnes. Plate 17, Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge from The Graphic, 24 April 1886. [Click on image to enlarge it.]

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