[Dead Man’s Rock by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch]@TWC D-Link bookDead Man’s Rock CHAPTER IX 55/63
What's this? Skeletons, eh? Upon my word, Trenoweth, you've unearthed a treasure.
And this? A statue? Well, it's a queer place to come hunting for statues, but you've picked up an ugly-looking beggar in all conscience!' "He had advanced to the head, which lay in the rank herbage staring up in hideous spite to heaven.
Presently he turned to me and said-- "'Well, this is very remarkable.
The fellow who carved this seems to have borrowed my features--not very complimentary of him, I must say. Don't you see the likeness ?' "It was solemn truth.
Feature by feature that atrocious face was simply a reproduction of Colliver's.
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