The Evil Genius erasure, pages 10 and 11

I started another erasure project, this one using Wilkie Collins’s The Evil Genius, my copy of which has some pencil scribbling in front and back. The text reads: “fretful / hitherto overlooked / he smiled / that smile / a certain / nothing / he sailed / and no one / suffered / he had fallen / homeward / to add a word or two / no part of / influence”

Gold and blue paint on the pages of an old book reveals a new text.