3-085-627 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Lonesome Anne: Then Anne stepped out and laid her hand upon him, 1898. 'She could hear him breathe, then chuckle, as he leaned down to some stones half-hidden in the grass. With a furtive glance the man took a dead rabbit from the ground, and began to unloose the snare. Then Anne stepped out, and laid her hand upon him, whilst the laugh of a woodpecker rang in the silence of the quarry and died away on the wind'. Illustration by F. H. Townsend, to a short story by Algernon Gissing. From "Illustrated London News", 1898.