sec 3 Flashcards
‘Pinn’d, beaten, cold, pinch’d,
, threaten’d, and abused-‘
‘Struck if He wept’ ‘strove to pray, received
a blow, and trembling turn’d away’
‘his tears despised
his supplications vain’
‘In one long yellow string I wound three times
her little throat around and strangled her.’
‘no pain felt she;
I am quite sure she felt no pain.’ -
I gave commands;
then all smiles stopped together’
which is the poison to
poison her, prithee?’
‘grind away, moisten and
mash up thy paste’
‘on hearing cries, said calmly
‘’Grimes is at his exercise’’
‘Peter pass’d untroubled
and unmoved’
He knew not justice,
and he laugh’d at law’
‘she shut out the cold
and the storm’
‘And strangled
her.’
‘twas not her husband’s presence only, called
that spot of joy into the Duchess’ cheek’
‘I call that piece a wonder
now’
‘I gave commands;
then smiles stopped together.’
‘while they laugh, laugh at me, at me fled to the drear
empty church, to pray God in, for them! – I am here’
Quick –
is it finished?’
‘at his insistence she was removing
her clothes, and at such speed’
It was a temptation for her
to be magical and dramatic’
‘before she accepted
she did not understand’
‘there was something comically brooding about his face.
This opener was conventionally dull’
‘Marshall took control of the conversation
with a ten-minute monologue’
‘she had noticed him hanging round the children lately.
Perhaps he was interested in Lola.’
‘the smallest shift in her gaze brought her Leon’s face
but he was staring politely at his friend and seemed determined not to meet her eye’
Cecelia longed to take her brother aside and tell him
that Mr Marshall had pubic hair growing from his ears’
‘he held his hand higher
and tightened his grip’
‘’Bite it,’ he said softly. ‘You’ve got to bite it.’
’ ‘it crackled loudly as it yielded to her unblemished incisors
‘another boy with equal
ease was found’
the savage master
grinned in horrid glee’
and at the slave shop
Peter still applied’
obedient boy to stand the
blow of his outrageous hand’
Henceforth with thee
shall never boy abide’
‘she put my arm
around her waist’
and made her smooth
white shoulder bear’
As if she ranked my nine-hundred-
years-old name with anybody’s gift’
designed posters,
programmes and tickets’ ‘constructed the sales booth’ lined the collection box’
it was not insensitivity so much as
highly focused artistic ambition’
‘Maniacs can
attack anyone
‘she was entering an area of
adult emotion and dissembling’
‘in excitement over the possibilities, she did not
doubt her sister… would need her help’
the context helped …
and it was almost onomatopoeic’
He fish’d by water
, and filched by land’
He nursed the feelings these
these dull scenes produced’
That’s my last Duchess
Painted on the wall’
‘morning sunlight … could not conceal
the ugliness of the Tallis home’
‘nursery’s wide
open windows
I never struck
a blow’
terrors’ ‘shook his frame’
‘again they come! ‘spirits’
images of hell:
‘hot red liquor’
‘yet God has
not said a word’
he is sure to remember
her dying face’-
‘He looked so
huge and wild’
‘her forearm
raised in protest’
‘none inquired’
‘none sought him’
‘None put to question’
‘Grimes at his exercise’
