Excerpt from The Terrible Meek an One-Act Stage Play for Three, Voices: To Be Played in Darkness
Before the curtain rises, a bell from some distant place of worship tolls the hour. Nine brazen notes, far off, out of tune. Then a heavy peal of thunder, and the sharp, cracking strike of a bolt; yet, above all, one other sound, more piercing - a strange, unearthly cry. There follows a mighty howling of wind, blended with a confused clamour of voices and the hurrying of many feet. The noises have almost all died away, when the curtain rises upon inky darkness.
A sudden hush. The silence deepens. There is a sense of moorlands and desolate places.
Far off, a cow lows in her stall. Some lost sheep down in the valley bleats dismally. Silence again.
It is broken by the voice of a woman, weeping bitterly. A peasant woman.
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