"Perhaps she would see them just as he once had, as mere actors playing upon their extended stage,..."

“Perhaps she would see them just as he once had, as mere actors playing upon their extended stage, performers who carried their roles with them in the name of the circus. She had not stood before Lacrimosa, heard him speak, she would think them the fool fears of a child, and think him the greater child for investing such naïve belief in them, when there was money, politics, monarchs, employment, disease, social concerns and death to occupy the minds of the adult world.”

- The Travelling Circu...