Some of the film is set in the jalousied interiors of Moorish bedrooms, or in desert cities such as Sana’a, with its towers of baked mud decorated with white scrolls and borders like piped icing.
It is true, that reference to the horrors of the Romish Inquisition, as well as other cruelties practised by the church and court of Rome, is sufficient to curdle our blood, but it must not tempestuate our spirits, or make them wax hot.
My good fellow, we did not come here. Destiny brought us in a cart. She may take us to Tyburn in the same way.
“Here, Pat, give us a g.p., like a good fellow.” The curate brought him a glass of plain porter. The man drank it at a gulp and asked for a caraway seed.
