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The canvas upon which this murder piece is painted 
is gray and black with thin streaks of day and half- 
light shadows revealing those grim spectres of fate 
who mumble indistinctly of Macbeth and mischief. The 
scene reveals caverns and desert places, a thoroughfare 
for rooks and crows and murderers. This dark picture 
is relieved by the gentleness of Duncan, the childish im- 
petuosity of Lady Macduff and the prattle of her son ; 
but these only intensify the noise of the battle, the earth 
"quaking," the hootings of the owl, and the shrieking 
of the night wind, all fit expressions of a perverted 
nature. 

XI 




When shall we three meet again