With Estella after all

Marcus Stone

Wood engraving

5 ⅛ by 3 ⅜ inches (13.2 cm by 8.8 cm)

I took her hand in mine, and we went out of the ruined place; and, as the morning mists had risen long ago when I first left the forge, so the evening mists were rising now, and in all the broad expanse of tranquil light they showed to me, I saw no shadow of another parting from her.

Dickens's Great Expectations, Garnett edition, facing p. 558.

Scanned image and text by Philip V. Allingham.

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