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author | Steve Hay <steve.m.hay@googlemail.com> | 2010-09-19 22:55:51 +0100 |
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committer | Steve Hay <steve.m.hay@googlemail.com> | 2010-09-19 22:55:51 +0100 |
commit | f6c56125ca98e4e55a49ed023717d5096494c28c (patch) | |
tree | c4755dea9c60a0a1042ed57b039d9218379a0168 /Porting | |
parent | 08d032c06ab3c03fde3df57f8ed6dbe979895a72 (diff) | |
download | perl-f6c56125ca98e4e55a49ed023717d5096494c28c.tar.gz |
Update Porting/epigraphs.pod for Perl 5.13.5
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diff --git a/Porting/epigraphs.pod b/Porting/epigraphs.pod index a6e4857ef6..7acb3c8941 100644 --- a/Porting/epigraphs.pod +++ b/Porting/epigraphs.pod @@ -15,6 +15,32 @@ Consult your favorite dictionary for details. =head1 EPIGRAPHS +=head2 v5.13.5 - Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, "The Room in the Dragon Volant" + +Candle in hand I stepped in. I do not know whether the quality of +air, long undisturbed, is peculiar; to me it has always seemed so, and +the damp smell of the old masonry hung in this atmosphere. My candle +faintly lighted the bare stone wall that enclosed the stair, the foot +of which I could not see. Down I went, and a few turns brought me to +the stone floor. Here was another door, of the simple, old, oak kind, +deep sunk in the thickness of the wall. The large end of the key +fitted this. The lock was stiff; I set the candle down upon the +stair, and applied both hands; it turned with difficulty, and as it +revolved, uttered a shriek that alarmed me for my secret. + +For some minutes I did not move. In a little time, however, I took +courage, and opened the door. The night-air floating in puffed out +the candle. There was a thicket of holly and underwood, as dense as a +jungle, close about the door. I should have been in pitch-darkness, +were it not that through the topmost leaves there twinkled, here and +there, a glimmer of moonshine. + +Softly, lest any one should have opened his window at the sound of the +rusty bolt, I struggled through this till I gained a view of the open +grounds. Here I found that the brushwood spread a good way up the +park, uniting with the wood that approached the little temple I have +described. + =head2 v5.13.4 - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" `How the creatures order one about, and make one repeat lessons!' thought Alice; |