In answer to the knock Fall came to the door, candle in hand.

Robert Barnes

20 March 1886 (Part Twelve)

Composite Woodblock Engraving

22.6 cm high by 17.3 cm wide — 8 ⅝ by 6 ⅝ inches

Thomas Hardys's The Mayor of Casterbridge, Chapter XXVI, p. 317.

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