This image is from the 1886 novel Kidnapped written by Robert Louis Stevenson. It is the tale of young David Balfour attempting to reclaim his ancestral home from the greedy, grasping uncle who has him kidnapped to be transported and sold into indentured servitude. Following a shipwreck, David escapes into the Scottish highlands in the company of Jacobite rebel and wanted man, Alan Breck Stewart. This illustration is of the first appearance of Stewart (a real historical figure) in the book. The small boat he is travelling in is struck in the fog by The Covenant, the ship in which David is being held captive. The small vessel is completely destroyed and all aboard drown except for Stewart, whose quick reflexes save him. He manages to leap up, grab one of the Covenant's ropes and climb to his safety. Or so he thinks; unfortunately, Captain Hoseason and his crew are a bunch of criminal lowlifes who begin plotting to kill Stewart and steal the money he is carrying. David overhears their plans and tells Alan of them; they stand together to hold off Hoseason and his goons.
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The above illustration is from Jane Austen's 1811 novel Sense and Sensibility which follows the fortunes/misfortunes of the Dashwood sisters after the death of their father. While on a walk, Marianne Dashwood slips and falls and is helped home by dashing pretty boy John Willoughby. She is infatuated with him, and he seems equally so with her, embarking upon what is, to all outward appearances, a courtship. After some time has passed, Willoughby is summoned to London by the aunt on whom he is financially dependant, leaving Marianne- all sensibility to her sister Elinor's sense- distraught. When they have occasion to travel to London with friends, an ecstatic Marianne writes Willoughby several impassioned letters, sure that he will rush to her side. He doesn't, nor does he even answer her letters. At a party, Elinor and Marianne run in to Willoughby, who is in the company of another young woman and obviously reluctant to talk to them. He does so briefly and coldly, leaving Marianne bewildered and tearful. Later at the house where they're staying, Marianne receives a cool note from him, returning all her letters and the lock of hair which he had asked her for- and cut- months before when he was playing the attentive suitor. It turns out that Willoughby is now engaged to the young woman he was with at the party: a Miss Grey who, among her other attractions, possesses a large fortune. They soon find out that Willoughby, due to a great misdeed he perpetrated, has been disinherited by his aunt and since he is a wastrel with a large pile of debts, needs a source of money- hence Miss Grey and her attractive fortune. Marianne, heartbroken, takes to her bed, crying hysterically as the sympathetic but practical Elinor tries to get her to pull herself together. Here's that scene in the 1995 adaptation starring Emma Thompson and Kate Winslet:
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