The Trial of Elizabeth Cree

I am the scourge of God

[...] the drama upon the stage is sometimes no more than an intensification of the rituals within our own hearts.

The air itself is one vast library, on whose pages are for ever written all that man has ever said or woman whispered.

As early as the 1830s Charles Babbage had managed to construct a “Difference Engine” which could perform simple sums, but he soon became preoccupied with the far more complicated “Analytical Engine” which could add, subtract, multiply and divide as well as solve both algebraic and numerical equations; it had also been able to print out the results of its calculations onto stereotype plates. This was the engine which Gissing had come to see.

[...] a melodious melancholy manner of mirth.