He overtook a slim, quick-eyed woman

He overtook a slim, quick-eyed woman

John Collier

Plate 20, Thomas Hardy's The Trumpet-Major

Good Words, August 1880

(one-quarter of p. 505, upper left), vignetted: 3.5 cm wide x 8.5 cm high (not captioned); illustrates the passage immediately below the plate.

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