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Quotation from Oroonoko by Aphra Behn
“Some have commended this Act, as brave in the Captain; but I will spare my Sense of it, and leave it to my Reader to judge as he pleases”
Oroonoko, The treacherous captain, after Oroonoko is seized aboard ship
The narrator withholds explicit judgment on the captain's seizure of his guests, though the surrounding narration leaves little doubt of her view.
Citation: "Some have commended this Act, as brave in the Captain; but I will spare my Sense of it, and leave it to my Reader to judge as he pleases" — Aphra Behn, Oroonoko, The treacherous captain, after Oroonoko is seized aboard ship. (id behn-oroonoko-q3)
