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Chapter 28 - (VERSO)

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“Now, she’s all ready,” said Jane. “We must kiss her quiet brows and, Diana, you say, ‘Sister, fare well forever,’ and Ruby, you say, ‘Farewell, sweet sister,’ both of you as sorrowfully as you possibly can. Now push the flat off. Anne, for goodness sake smile a little. You know Elaine ‘lay as though she smiled.’ That’s better. Now push the flat off.”

The flat was accordingly pushed off, Diana and Jane scraping roughly over an old embedded stake in the process. Diana and Jane and Ruby only waited long enough to see it caught in the current and headed for the bridge before scampering up through the woods, across the road, and down to the lower headland where, they were to be as Lancelot and Guinevere and the King, they were to be in readiness to


PHOTO ANNOTATION

ornate woodcut of a shrouded girl in a boat with a man leaning over her

"Now push the flat off": Dante Gabriel Rossetti's famous engraving of "The Lady of Shalott," published with Tennyson's poem in 1857. Rossetti's engraving, like Tennyson's poem, draws on the Victorian fascination with Medieval themes and techniques.