The King and Hjalmar also are the prey of Fate; Queen Anne not less so, for crime, like love, is one of the strings by which Fate works her Puppets.
"Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck"
Jethro Bithell
We look down on the movements of the Puppets as from a higher world-we are richer by an idea than they are: we see what Player is pulling the strings, the strings of which they are only half conscious.
"Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck"
Jethro Bithell
Was it to live among such Puppets that he had sold his soul?
"The Greater Inclination"
Edith Wharton