As Edgardo in Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor, he launched the "Maladetta" phrase of the curse with a voice that was almost "white" with frenzied rage; while the pathetic sombre quality he employed in the "Fra poco a me ricovero" fitly accorded with the despairing mood and gloomy surroundings of the hapless Edgardo.
"Style in Singing"
W. E. Haslam
Think shame to yersel', Jean, to be hidin' things Fra me the like o' that an' then lyin' to me."
"The Eye of Dread"
Payne Erskine
Noo it's come to ye by way of this letter Fra yer frien', an' I'm thinkin' it's the best way; for noo, at last ye ha'e it in ye're power to go an' maybe save an innocent man, for it's no like a son of our Katherine would be sic' like a base coward as to try to win oot from justice by lyin' himsel' intil his victim's own home.
"The Eye of Dread"
Payne Erskine