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Rose Mortimer; Or, The Ballet-Girl's Revenge — page 55: what you’re looking at

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Rose Mortimer; Or, The Ballet-Girl's Revenge — page 55: Penny Dreadfuls, 1865

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This is an interior page from a Victorian penny dreadful featuring both an engraved illustration and running prose. The illustration, captioned "THE FATAL DUEL IN THE WOOD," depicts a dramatic outdoor scene with a woman on horseback, a uniformed man, and two figures on the ground. The text introduces Chapter XIX, describing how the heroine Rose Mortimer discovers a disguise awaiting her at a mysterious house, and hints that an unknown man is simultaneously preparing himself for an important role in her life's drama, unaware of their connection.

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