Blount Tempest . CHAPTER VII. THE spiders SVEB BROKEN. Tis liberty alone that gives the flower(Jf llcetiiig life its lustre and perfume:And we are weeds without it.—(The Task.) REEVY had contrived his web to his per-: feet satisfaction. Like a bloated oldspider that has fed upon the victims ithad entangled in its net, and retiredinto a private corner under some protecting coverto digest its feast, and contemplate the radiatinglines carrying successive circles of meshes to trapunwary flies and moths, so Creevy from his corner(at the Lakes, as his fair spouse had informed MrTrigg) had contemplat
Blount Tempest . CHAPTER VII. THE spiders SVEB BROKEN. Tis liberty alone that gives the flower(Jf llcetiiig life its lustre and perfume:And we are weeds without it.—(The Task.) REEVY had contrived his web to his per-: feet satisfaction. Like a bloated oldspider that has fed upon the victims ithad entangled in its net, and retiredinto a private corner under some protecting coverto digest its feast, and contemplate the radiatinglines carrying successive circles of meshes to trapunwary flies and moths, so Creevy from his corner(at the Lakes, as his fair spouse had informed MrTrigg) had contemplated, with intense satisfaction,the lines he had promoted from London, the cen-tre of his system. They extended a long way,fastening themselves to Florence in one direction,to Launccstcr and Durham-]\[assey in another: toa palace and a prison in others. BLOUXT TEMPEST. 221 Then as the spider weaves its enthralling net-work out of its own body, and has to enter into nooutside contracts for its building materials,
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