II
"It is fortunate," said Severn, sitting up
and stretching, "that we have tided over the dinner hour, for I have
nothing to offer you for supper but what may be purchased with one silver
franc."
THE STREET OF THE FOUR WINDS I
THE STREET OF THE
FOUR WINDS
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"Ferme tes yeux à demi,
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Croise tes bras sur ton sein,
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Et de ton cœur endormi
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Chasse à jamais tout dessein."
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THE DEMOISELLE D'YS II
II
I awoke next morning with the music of the horn in my
ears, and leaping out of the ancient bed, went to a curtained window where the
sunlight filtered through little deep-set panes. The horn ceased as I looked
into the court below.
THE DEMOISELLE D'YS I
THE DEMOISELLE D'YS
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"Mais je croy que je
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Suis descendu on puiz
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Ténébreux onquel disoit
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Heraclytus estre
Vereté cachée."
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"There be
three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not:
"The way of
an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the
midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid."
THE YELLOW SIGN III
III
The day following was a disastrous one for me. While
moving a framed canvas from one easel to another my foot slipped on the
polished floor, and I fell heavily on both wrists.
THE YELLOW SIGN II
II
The next morning, Thomas, the bell-boy, brought me the Herald and a bit of news. The church next door had been sold.
THE YELLOW SIGN I
THE YELLOW SIGN
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"Let the red dawn surmise
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What we shall do,
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When this blue starlight dies
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And all is
through."
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IN THE COURT OF THE DRAGON
IN THE COURT OF
THE DRAGON
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"Oh, thou who burn'st in heart for those who burn
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In Hell, whose fires thyself shall feed in turn;
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How long be crying—'Mercy on them.' God!
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Why, who art thou to teach and He to learn?"
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THE MASK IV
IV
The same evening I took the keys and went into the
house I had known so well. Everything was in order, but the silence was
terrible. Though I went twice to the door of the marble room, I could not force
myself to enter. It was beyond my strength.
The mask III
III
At noon next day when I called, I found Boris walking
restlessly about his studio.
"Geneviève is asleep just now," he told me,
"the sprain is nothing, but why should she have such a high fever? The
doctor can't account for it; or else he will not," he muttered.
"Geneviève has a fever?"
THE MASK II
II
Some work that I was doing about this time on the
decorations for Geneviève's boudoir kept me constantly at the quaint little
hotel in the Rue Sainte-Cécile. Boris and I in those days laboured hard but as
we pleased, which was fitfully, and we all three, with Jack Scott, idled a
great deal together.
THE MASK
THE MASK
Camilla: You, sir, should unmask.
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Stranger: Indeed?
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Cassilda: Indeed it's time. We all have laid aside disguise but you.
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Stranger: I wear no mask.
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Camilla: (Terrified, aside to Cassilda.) No mask? No mask!
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The King in Yellow, Act I, Scene 2.
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MR. WILDE, REPAIRER OF REPUTATIONS. Third Bell.
MR. WILDE,
REPAIRER OF REPUTATIONS.
Third Bell.
REPAIRER OF REPUTATIONS.
Third Bell.
I saw old Hawberk moving about in his shop, and
imagined I heard Constance's voice in the parlour; but I avoided them both and
hurried up the trembling stairways to Mr. Wilde's apartment.
The king in the yellow THE REPAIRER OF REPUTATIONS II
THE REPAIRER OF REPUTATIONS
II
I climbed the three dilapidated flights of stairs,
which I had so often climbed before, and knocked at a small door at the end of
the corridor. Mr. Wilde opened the door and I walked in.
the king in the yellow THE REPAIRER OF REPUTATIONS
THE REPAIRER OF REPUTATIONS
I
"Ne raillons pas les fous; leur folie dure plus
longtemps que la nôtre.... Voila toute la différence."
THE KING IN YELLOW
Along the shore the cloud waves break,
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The twin suns sink beneath the lake,
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The shadows lengthen
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In Carcosa. |
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