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… selves be seen; a hundred times already it had plunged again sparkling or morose into its im- mense evening bath; for many days we were able to contemplate the other side of the fir- mament and decipher the celestial Alphabet of the Antipodes, and each of the passengers grumbled and scolded. One would have said that getting near to land increased their suffer- ing; When then, they cried, shall we cease to sleep a sleep that is shaken by the wave, disturbed by a wind that snores louder than we do? When shall we be able to digest our din- ner…
1928 · PDF PAGE 99
…the hangman? Had the Prince himself divined the murderous efficacy of his ruse? One may suspect so. Did he regret his beloved, his inimitable Fanciullo? it is pleasant and admissible to be- lieve it. The guilty nobles had enjoyed the comedy for the last time; in the same night they were wiped out of life. Since then many a mime, justly appreciated in divers countries, has come to play before the Court of His Highness, but not one has been able to equal the marvellous talent of Fanciullo, nor to obtain the same degree of fa- vour.
1928 · PDF PAGE 140
…u will; even a skeleton:but also she is a love-draught, a magistry, a sorcery! Take her all in all, she is exquisite. Time has not been able to destroy the sparkling rhythm of her walk, or the indestructible elegance of her ap- parel. Love has not altered the suavity of her childs breath; Time has torn no hair from her wild flowing mane, whence is exhaled in tawny perfume all the devil of South French vitality Nîmes, Aix, Arles, Avignon, Narbonne, Tou- louse, towns amorous, charming, blessed of our father the Sun. Time and Love have attacked…
1928 · PDF PAGE 67
…ct, that the gifts were not the reward of any effort, but quite on the contrary a favour accorded to him who had not yet lived, a favour able to deter-
1928 · PDF PAGE 158
…s unpleasant to lose my decora- tions than to break my bones. And then I said to myselfEvery cloud has a silver lining; I shall now be able to walk about incognito; to do degrading things, give myself up to vice like mere mortals.And here I am, just like your- self, as you see. You might at least have offered a reward for your halo, or reported its loss at the Police- station!
1928 · PDF PAGE 129
…, the agonies and the ecstasies of every soul that hath ever lived, that lives, that ever shall live. As I bade farewell to this incomparable beauty I felt myself smitten down even to death, and therefore whenever one of my companions cried At last! I was only able to cry Already!
1928 · PDF PAGE 148
…e left me. For a provision merchant, no doubt? Something of the sortan officer of commissariat, who, by some wizardry, was probably able to supply the poor child with the rations of several soldiers,or so at least I suppose. I, said the fourth, have endured atrocious suffering from the contrary quality to that with which the female egoist is generally re- proached. I find you ungracious, Oh too fortu- nate mortals, in complaining of the imperfec- tions of your mistresses. This was said in a very serious voice by a man of easy and com…
1928 · PDF PAGE 82
…s his; he knows that I disdain his pleasures, and he wishes to sneak into mine, the ugly spoilsport! This great misfortune of not being able to be alone, says somewhere La Bruyère, as if to shame those who run to forget themselves in the crowd, fearing doubtless that they will be unable to tolerate their own company. Nearly all our misfortunes come to us from our not having the sense to remain in our chamber, says another wise man, Pascal, I think; thus summoning back into the cell of meditation all these wrong-headed persons who seek hap…
1928 · PDF PAGE 124
… Franz Liszt, powerful and revered mas- ter, dear Bacchante of mysterious and pas- sionate beauty. Never did nymph, frenzied by unconquerable Bacchus, shake her thyrsus over the heads of her maddened companions with so much energy and caprice as you when you wield your genius upon the hearts of your brothers! The staff is your will; straight, stiff, unshak- able. The flowers are the dance of your fancy around your will; it is the female element exe- cuting its spell-weaving around the male; straight line and arabesque line; intention and expre…
1928 · PDF PAGE 95
…, even virtue, even clemency; above all, if perchance he hoped to find therein unexpected pleasures. But with those who like myself were able to pierce more deeply into the depths of this curious sick soul, it seemed infinitely more probable that the his- trionic talents of a man doomed to death; he wished to profit by his opportunity to make a physiological experiment of capital interest, and to discover to what point the habitual tal- ents of an artist might be altered or modified by the extraordinary situation in which he found himself. But …
1928 · PDF PAGE 38
… incon- testably unhappy, although after all perhaps the titillating pleasures of glory are not un- known to her. There are more irremediable misfortunes; there are misfortunes that have no compensation. But in the world into which she has been thrown she had never been able to believe that women could ever deserve an- other fate. Now, between ourselves, my affected dar- ling; to see the hells with which the world is crowded, what do you wish me to think of your pretty hell? You who rest only upon materials as soft as your own skin; eat nothin…
1928 · PDF PAGE 118
… asked the others. God, he replied, with an accent of perfect conviction. Ah, He is already very far awayin a moment you will not be able to see Him any more; I think He must be travelling, to visit every country.There, there! He is going to pass behind that row of trees that is almost on the horizon; and now He is going down behind the steeple. Ah, I cannot see Him any more. And the child remained for long turned in the same direction, fixing upon the line which cuts earth from heaven a pair of eyes which shone with an inexpressive expre…
1928 · PDF PAGE 164
are poor people who are able to send him nothing. That gave me confidence; after all, I am a beautiful woman, though not too young. I said to him, Come and see me; come and see me often, and do not worry yourself on my ac- count, I have no need of money. But you must understand that I made clear to him in a hun- dred different ways. I did not say it to him crudely; I was so afraid of shaming him; I should like him to come and see me with his case of instruments and his apron; even with a little blood on them. She said that frankly and sensib…
1928 · PDF PAGE 145
to select; to be able to deliberate is already a decadence. It is then that one definitely hunts for beauty; as for me, gentlemen, I flatter my- self that I have arrived long since at the cli- macteric epoch of the third grade, when beauty itself no longer suffices unless it is sea- soned by perfume, adornment, and the rest. I will even admit that I sometimes aspire as if to an unknown happiness, to a certain fourth de- gree, whose stigma should be perfect calm; but, during my life, except at the age of Chérubin, I have been more sensitive than…
1928 · PDF PAGE 120
…nt of me without knowing where, without any person troubling themselves about it, and see- ing always new countries. I am never comfort- able anywhere, and I always believe that I should be better anywhere else but where I am. Well, let me tell you! I saw at the last Fair in the next village three men, who live as I should like to live. You never noticed them; they were tall, almost black, and very proud, although in rags, with the air of having need of nobody. Their large dark eyes became quite brilliant while they made music; a music so surpr…