Something like fear sprang up in the young lady's eyes

Sidney Paget

1891

Photographic reproduction of watercolor

Illustration for Arthur Conan Doyle's “The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet,” p. 159.

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Passage illustrated: “Something like fear sprang up in the young lady’s expressive black eyes. 'Why, you are like a magician,' said she. 'How do you know that?' She smiled, but there was no answering smile in Holmes’ thin, eager face”

Formatting and text by George P. Landow

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