Word: thenceforward
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Dates: during 1922-1922
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...centuries, and giving in surprisingly similar detail, even to names, the creation and fail of man. Supplemented by other records, a complete Sumerian legend can be constructed, which carries the history of Babylonia up to a flood strangely like that which bore Noah on his famous voyage. Thenceforward, the tale is different, and, as the critics would have said, the Hebrew plagiarism ceases...
...Thenceforward the play moves onward to its climax by introducting a new complication: the Doctor-feeling that his wife must soon realise why he married her-consults his friend and lawyer, Mariott, concerning how she (not himself) may obtain the freedom he unturally expects her to desire. His wife overhears him and realizes that though he thinks of her feelings, he is still anxious to go to Germany. She therefore determines not to stand in his way, but to divorce him so that he may fulfill the clause in the contract. She goes with Peter to the country...