3-071-283 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

While he was yet speaking the door opened, and two ladies entered the room, 1883. Illustration to "The Canon's Ward" by James Payn, a short story published in weekly instalments. 'The elder, a tall woman of about five-and-forty, very thin and angular, but with an air of singular refinement and delicacy; the younger, a slight, fairy-like little creature, exquisitely pretty, and with a face that sparkled with expression; her hair was golden, and her eyes of hazel. But it was not at once that you noticed any such detail; her other charms were lost in her brightness'. From "Illustrated London News", 1883.