Best young woman! repeated Mr. Lovel; 'pon honour, Jack, you have made a most unfortunate speech; however, if Lady Louisa can pardon you,-and her Ladyship is all goodness,-I am sure nobody else can; for you have committed an outrageous solecism in good manners.
The murals, themselves subject to the cycle of nature and life, are an impermanent art, requiring annual renewal because they are washed off by the rain. Some mural designs depict objects such as women's coiffure, initiation masks or the board for marabaraba, a popular game like checkers, van Wyk said. http://www.columbia.edu/cu/record/archives/vol20/vol20_iss6/record2006.17.html
It can start to feel like Woolcock is on the the verge of making Les Pêcheurs de Perles feel contemporary, and profound. But in the end, she doesn’t have a trick up her sleeve that can fix the jagged, plot-twisty ending (long judged implausible, even by operatic standards).
Risk here refers to the fact that working-class families are less likely to have members who have already attended and succeeded at university, which means that university is perceived as a more uncertain and thus risky proposition.
