Was it not a lie?
Artist: John Everett Millais
Engraver: The Dalziels
1861
Wood engraving
7 x 4 1/2 inches
Signed with monogram
Source: Project Gutenberg e-version of Framley Parsonage
From Anthony Trollope's Framley Parsonage with six illustrations by Sir John Everett Millais. First serialised 1860-1861 in Cornhill Magazine then published as a book in 1861.
See below for passage illustrated.
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Image capture, correction, and formatting by George P. Landow