Then he continued, after a moment of self-mastery: No true repentance for me but to go back and take the punishment.
"The Eye of Dread"
Payne Erskine
"May I ask," said Jack, "if this offer to buy off Merl be made in the interest of the Martins, for otherwise I really see no great object, so far as they are concerned, in the change of mastery?"
"The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II)"
Charles James Lever
But, as we have said, Maeterlinck's intention differs from that of Shakespeare, from whom he has borrowed most: Shakespeare's intention, in his tragedies, was to move his audience by the spectacle of human beings acting under the mastery of various passions; Maeterlinck's intention is to suggest the helplessness of human beings, and the impossibility of their resistance in the hands of Fate.
"Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck"
Jethro Bithell