Shudders in the Dark & Carnival Of Terror by Ruskin Bond

Author:Ruskin Bond [Bond, Ruskin]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Rupa Publications India
Published: 2009-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

‘How shall I now divide my gratitude

Between a son and one that has obliged me

Beyond the common duty of a subject?....’

That was what he should have said. He had to open the play after the prologue was spoken, but he found he could say nothing. He could only gape and stutter.What intense misery that had been! Kind Mrs Aphra Behn! She had forgiven him; she would forgive anybody anything. The kindest of women.

Not like Betty Barry.

As his mind flung the picture of Elizabeth Barry before him, his thin lips twitched and the eyelids slowly covered his staring eyes. She was the only thing in all the world that could hurt him now. And yet she was not beautiful. ‘Slattern Betty Barry.’ Who had called her that? It was not true. Cold and wicked she was, and not very beautiful, but she was no slattern. Strange how so great an actress, so passionate and lovable a creature on the stage, should be so icy and brutal in her private chamber!

She had been Rochester’s mistress, and Rochester had been Otway’s patron in those days. Rochester had never forgiven him; he had turned upon him and written vile things about him:

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