I married her, as it were, in darkness ; she seemed to take me by the hand and to lead me out into the light. Murray, the companionship of this pure woman is a revelation of life to me ! I tell you there are times when she stands before me that I am like... The Profligate: A Play in Four Acts - Page 67by Arthur Wing Pinero - 1914 - 123 pagesFull view - About this book
| Literature - 1913 - 880 pages
...The past has "overtaken him," he says in one excited utterance. "You know what my existence has been, I am in deadly fear; I dread the visit of a stranger...handwriting, and In my sleep I dream that I am muttering into Leslie's ear the truth against myself." Of course, his past sins find him out, as his friend Murray... | |
| Arthur Wing Pinero - 1891 - 156 pages
...have grown to love her now with my whole soul ! HUGH MURRAY. [Contemptuously. .] Oh ! DUNSTAN EENSHAW. I married her, as it were, in darkness ; she seemed...yet a torment, a curse and yet a blessing, my wife — God help me ! — my wife thinks me — Good I LESLIE. [In the garden below.] Dunstan! Dunstan... | |
| Hamilton Fyfe - 1902 - 274 pages
...out into the light. Murray, the companionship of this pure woman is a revelation of life to me. . . . But you know — because you read my future — you...muttering into her ear the truth against myself." "Be sure your sin will find you out" had been Murray's warning, and Renshaw can only groan out that... | |
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