First page of fourth installment (Chapters 9-12); uncaptioned headnote vignette.
John McLenan
1861
10.5 cm. by 5.5 cm wide (4 ⅛inches by 2 ¼ inches)
Bulwer-Lytton's A Strange Story
In a very few minutes I was once more in the grounds of that old gable house; the servant, who went before me, entered them by the stairs and the wicket-gate of the private entrance; that way was the shortest. So again I passed by the circling glade and the monastic well, — sward, trees, and ruins all suffused in the limpid moonlight.
And now I was in the house; the servant took up-stairs the note with which I was charged, and a minute or two afterwards returned and conducted me to the corridor above, in which Mrs. Ashleigh received me. I was the first to speak. [Chapter IX, p. 558]
Harper's Weekly 5 (22 August 1861): 558.
Image scan and text by Philip V. Allingham.