"How Betsinda Fled, in Chapter XII" —Richard Doyle's sixth illustration for W. M. Thackeray's "The Rose and The Ring" (1898)

How Betsinda Fled

Richard Doyle

1898

Wood-engraving

9.3 cm high x 5 cm wide (3 ⅞ by 2 inches), vignetted

Sixth illustration for W. M. Thackeray's The Rose and The Ring (first published 1855): Chapter XII: "How Betsinda Fled, and What Became of Her," p. 285. Descriptive headline: "Now Were To Betsinda Carried / To A Hut She Gains Admission" (pp. 285-286).

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Passage Illustrated: Betsinda flees into the country

Betsinda wandered on and on, till she passed through the town gates, and so on the great Crim Tartary road, the very way on which Giglio too was going. ‘Ah!’ thought she, as the diligence passed her, of which the conductor was blowing a delightful tune on his horn, ‘how I should like to be on that coach!’ But the coach and the jingling horses were very soon gone. She little knew who was in it, though very likely she was thinking of him all the time. [Chapter XII, "How Betsinda Fled, and What Became of Her," pp. 285-286]

Related Illustrations by W. M. Thackeray (1855)

Bibliography

Thackeray, W. M. The Christmas Books of M. A. Titmarsh. With illustrations by Richard Doyle and Thackeray. London: Smith. Elder, 1898.

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