A Blot in the 'Scutcheon by Robert Browning
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TRESHAM. The last great yew-tree? GERARD. You might stand upon The main boughs like a platform. Then he... TRESHAM. Quick! GERARD. Climbs up, and, where they lessen at the top, --I cannot see distinctly, but he throws, I think--for this I do not vouch--a line That reaches to the lady's casement-- TRESHAM. --Which He enters not! Gerard, some wretched fool Dares pry into my sister's privacy! When such are young, it seems a precious thing To have approached,--to merely have approached, Got sight of the abode of her they set Their frantic thoughts upon. Ha does not enter? Gerard? GERARD. There is a lamp that's full i' the midst. Under a red square in the painted glass Of Lady Mildred's... TRESHAM. Leave that name out! Well? That lamp? GERARD. Is moved at midnight higher up |
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