"It seemed as if I were walking in the dark and might rush into snares or drop into pits before I was aware of my danger"
— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Hugh Maxwell
Date
1799
Metaphor
"It seemed as if I were walking in the dark and might rush into snares or drop into pits before I was aware of my danger"
Metaphor in Context
I ruminated not superficially or briefly on this dialogue. By what means would he silence her inquiries? He surely meant not to mislead her by fallacious representations. Some inquietude now crept into my thoughts. I began to form conjectures as to the nature of the scheme to which my suppression of the truth was to be made thus subservient. It seemed as if I were walking in the dark and might rush into snares or drop into pits before I was aware of my danger. Each moment accumulated my doubts and I cherished a secret foreboding that the event would prove my new situation to be far less fortunate than I had, at first, fondly believed. the question now occurred with painful repetition, Who and what was Welbeck? What was his relation to this foreign lady? What was the service for which I was to be employed?
(Part I, chapter 8, p. 292)
(Part I, chapter 8, p. 292)
Categories
Provenance
Reading
Citation
First part published in 1799; second in 1800. Reading and transcribing text from Charles Brockden Brown, Three Gothic Novels. New York: Library of America,1998.
Date of Entry
07/16/2003
