Penny Dreadfuls, 1865 · page 119 of 204
Rose Mortimer; Or, The Ballet-Girl's Revenge — page 119: what you’re looking at
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# Rose Mortimer; or, The Ballet-Girl's Revenge This is page 118 of a serialized Victorian penny dreadful (Issue No. 15). The page contains a wood-engraved illustration titled "Clara and the Ruffians," depicting two men on a riverbank, followed by running prose narrative. The text describes a character named Mermet's journey to Richmond by train and subsequent nighttime walk to a detached villa, where he cautiously enters a garden. The narrative emphasizes his slow, painful locomotion and notes that the creaking gate "led to an occur[rence]"—suggesting the beginning of a dramatic plot development typical of sensational Victorian fiction.
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