This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ... and domineering indignation, reproaches him in scornful tones for disrupting the banquet by such monstrous disorder.. _ Macbeth, still dazed and puzzled, addresses his reply to all the guests. Great is his amazement that the sight of the bloody specter should affect them no more than a summer's ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ... and domineering indignation, reproaches him in scornful tones for disrupting the banquet by such monstrous disorder.. _ Macbeth, still dazed and puzzled, addresses his reply to all the guests. Great is his amazement that the sight of the bloody specter should affect them no more than a summer's passing cloud. Imagining all to have seen the ghost, he can not understand why, like himself, they should not quake with terror and be blanched with fear. The puzzling fact leads him to doubt his hitherto acknowledged natural bravery and to fancy himself a coward, since on trial he is overcome by those "horrid sights" on which they can gaze unmoved with fearless fortitude. In the interim, Lady Macbeth, writhing in internal agony and casting ever and anon restless and terrifying glances toward Macbeth, labored with exaggerated courtesies to distract and entertain the guests. When, however, his admissions led Ross, his closest adherent, to question him, she rushes from the dais in alarm, lest under question he make other damaging confessions. Waving and, in fact, thrusting Macbeth aside, she confronts the assembly and, in voice almost choked with fear and anxiety, reproves the curiosity of the nobles, and forbids further questions; they ' will only enrage him and bring a return of his malady. While Macbeth, depressed in spirits, stands speechless, lost in thoughts of Banquo's ghost, of his guilt, and of the public exhibition of his recent terror, Lady Macbeth, panic-stricken, bids the guests good night and. urging their hastv departure, almost drives them away in disorder and dismay (1l. 89-121). The situation in which, after the hurried and brusque dismissal of the nobles, the King and Queen, at the summit of their ambition...
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