" This is the very parchment, the attempt to recover which cost the beautiful Alice Pyncheon her happiness and life, " said the artist, alluding to his legend.
Knight said no more, and they followed in the footsteps of Elfride, who still kept some paces in advance, and had not heard Knight's unconscious allusion to her.
The play's title alludes to how the abusive husband slowly dims the gaslights in their home while pretending nothing has changed in an effort to make his wife doubt her own perceptions.
" His state of mind really freezes my blood, " Mrs. Penniman had written, alluding to her brother; and it would have seemed that upon this statement she could hardly improve.
“Nature gave us lips to conceal our teeth, ” ran one popular Victorian maxim, alluding to the fact that before the birth of proper dentistry, mouths were often in a shocking state of hygiene.