Penny Dreadfuls, 1866 · page 397 of 400
Black Bess; or, the Knight of the Road — page 397: what you’re looking at
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# Page Analysis This page contains a serial installment from "The Knight of the Road," a Victorian penny dreadful. The upper portion features an engraved illustration depicting Tom King preventing police officers from entering a location, surrounded by several men in period dress. Below the image runs serialized prose dialogue in which characters discuss entering "that fearful place," with exchanges about guilt, the poor, and the dead—typical melodramatic moral conflict. The page concludes with "No. 223 will be Published next Monday," indicating this is installment No. 222 of an ongoing serial.
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