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…ood luck, Percy ! SIR PERCY. I know nothing of your devil’s game. Good luck ! GLENSTRAE. Caste, John Burns.! [Exenunt MARQUIS and MOLLY. LADY GLENSTRAE. Hist! Percy, hither to me. Is no one looking? Sirk PERCY. No, there is no one here. LADY GLENSTRAE, I can cure you. and happy again. I can make you strong O what rapture ! Sir PERCY. What is it ? LADY GLENSTRAE. Here, let me give you this medicine. A little prick of pain, and then—pleasure—Oh ! [She bends caressingly ever the arnt of SIR PERCY DE PERCIVALE, and stabs it with a needle. Get a doc…
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…gerbread ; they are the flatulence of calf-sickness. I thought I had taught the boy more sense. He weakens, and I weary. As you will, my Lady Glen- strae! Hortense! (HORTENSE enters with a glass of brandy.) Brandy! HORTENSE. Iiere, milady. ANGELA. Not enough, you she-devil. More! More! [Exit. ANGELA falls back ¢o sleep. SCENE XI. Paris. ANGELA, LORD and LADY GLEN- STRAE, SIR PERCY DE PERCIVALE. ANGELA. You will not believe what I tell you? These friends will tell you what I mean, and if I mean it! You had your dismissal this morning. Never dare…
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…e Beaulieu, Damoiseau de Beaulieu, in the Province of Normandy, at your lordship’s service. ALAIN, That is your way of looking after the lady’s reputation. Hear mine! Allow me first to introduce myself as Alain de Malé- troit, Sire de Malétroit, and Warden of the Marches under his Majesty King Charles— DENYS. Whom God preserve ! [ Waves his broken sword. ALAIN, What excellent sentiments, and what an unfortunate omen—dear, dear me! And I have the honour to offer you the hand— I presume you already possess the heart—of the Lady Blanche de Malétro…
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…. Ha! Ha! Hla! [GCallops off. SCENE VIII. Dawn. Outside Castle Baird. To Car- RUTHERS, GREUMOCH, MOLLY, and retainers on horseback enter LADY BAIRD and SIR PERCY PERCIVALE om the battlements. CARRUTHERS. Be a man, Greumoch boy, be a man ! GREUMOCH. Sir, did she’ll no be thinking ye were greeting yersei’, mon, she'll could find it in her heert to whang ye, whateffer. ANGELA. You are early hunting, gentlemen. in! My steward shall serve somewhat. [Sees MOLLY. Ha! Ha! Ha! You bring a lady, then, Carruthers ! Come CARRUTHERS. Madam ! Give me that bo…
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…tired, I tell you. What do 1 GLENSTRAR. You see, Molly, I told you true. MOLLY (¢uris to the MARCHIONESS and kneels by her). are a O, my lady Marchioness! You great lady. Spare me this shame, your loid’s . . | shame, your own shame. ... Simmons, ask Miss Tyson to step here' LADY GLENSTRAE. Take her away. Less light ! GLENSTRAE. Ha! Ha! Sir PERCY. I cannot see your humour, Glenstrae— forgive me so far! And to tell the truth of it, I can do nothing and care to do less. Come, Molly! MOLLY. Must I, must I? Oh, sir, have pity ! G1! ENSTRAE. A bargai…
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…ER 1904 [The simplicity of this exquisite poem renders all explanations superfluous.| ATNOQ2ZTQ OED* ARGUMENT. THE poet, seated with his lady, perceives (i.) that he is in some disgrace, arguing the same (i.) from a difference in the quality of the subsisting silence. Seeking a cause, he observes (iii) a lady’s garter in one corner of the room. His annoyance is changed (iv.) to joy at the prospect of an argument, and of a better understanding. He will (v.) be frank: no poet truly cares what may happen to him. He sketches (vi.) his argument; but…
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…rence to Monsieur’s indulgence. But before you alto- gether decline this marriage, it would be perhaps properer did I present you to the lady. DENYS. [Sees that he must humour his strange host; rises and bows in acyutescence with znane sintle and phrase.) Ah, Monsieur, you make me too happy ! [This speech ts not ironical but con- ventional and absurd. ALAIN strikes the gong. Enter PRIEST and bows. ALAIN. Require the presence of the Lady Blanche de Maleétroit, if you please, father. PRIEST (dows). My lord. [Retires. Enter BLANCHE 227 a bridal dr…
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…er frame of mind? PRIEST. She is more resigned, my lord. ALAIN. Now a murrain o’ these languishing wenches in their green-sickness! By’r Lady, she is hard to please. A likely stripling, not ill-born, and the one of her own choosing. Why, what more would she have? PRIEST. The situation is not usual to a young damsel, and somewhat trying to her blushes. ALAIN. She should have thought of that before. This devil’s dance is not to my piping, but since she is in it, by ’r Lady, she shall carry it through. [Afotzons PRIEST fo retire. Exit PRIEST, wth …
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… Marquisate should die out, will bestow it on the same lucky young fellow. SiR HERPES Z, This is marvellous news ! S1R GRABSON J. Again, Lady Baird has just perished in awful agony. Having suffered for twenty years from a hideous and incurable disease, she brought matters to a climax last night by falling into a barrel of boiling sulphuric acid. Sir HERPES Z. How so? SIR GRABSON J, It was her bath-night. Sir HERPES Z. Ah! enamel! But why did it hurt her? SIR GRABSON J. (Jmpressively.) It is the finger of God ! The Poet concludes. Now I have wri…
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…e window,—or, as I guess, —on the pikes of my retainers, I will with- draw myself and them that you may talk in greater privacy with the Lady Blanche. I fought at Arcy, and know what wonders may happen in an hour. [DENYS ‘furas bitterly, almost savagely, toward BLANCHE.| You will not disfigure your last hour by want of politeness to a lady? [DENYS flushes, accepts the rebuke, bows to both and says simply: DENYS. I give you my word of honour. [//zs deciston ts not uncoloured by the pathetic petitioning of the mute SLANCIIE, ALAIN, I thank you, s…
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…Brother (Plymouth), A conscientious Chemist. A Theatre-Goer. Large but unseen body of retainers. MAUD, MARCHIONESS OF GLENSTRAE, ANGELA, LADY BAIRD, HORTENSE, er maid, MOLLY TYSON, daughter of Tyson, Aged (Plymouth) Sisters, &c,, &c. The action of the play occupies three years. DEDICATIO MINIMA. My dear Christ, A person, purporting to be a friend and disciple of yours, and calling himself John, reports you to have wept. Hts testimony is now considered by the best authorities to be of avery doubtful order. But if you did weep, this (vide infra) …
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…ore. SIR PERCY (aside). How she speaks! singing. (Aloud.) Indeed, I read too far, It is indeed an angel ANGELA. Pity me! Sir PERCY. Dear lady, the joy to know, and so per- fectly to express such love is enough. ANGELA. You mock me! That girl—do you in truth love her? She is most beautiful. SiR PERCY. O she is my love, my dove, my star, my— Ah !—I hurt you! (Aszde.) O beast ! What is this doubt ? ANGELA (very close to him). I hear another anthem in those eyes. By God, lad, you are wonderful ! Sir PERCY What would you say? VOL. III. 33 ANGELA. Wh…
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…IN falls into a fit of silent D laughter. DENYS rtses and puts ENYS. [Lronicadly.| I am too honoured. ALAIN. Well? DENYs. You speak of a lady tome. You mistake me ALAIN. [I hope so. DENYS. Do not entrust a stranger with your family secrets, is my advice—as a man of the world. ALAIN. But my nephew !— DENYS. I do not even know your lordship’s honourable nephew. ALAIN. I may yet show you a sneaking rascal in his person. DENYs. This really cannot go on. I must beg you, sir, to allow me to go from your house. I came here by an ill chance enough—thou…
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…. Love is the Work, and love alone Rewards the ingenious alchemist. Chaste fervours chastely overthrown Awake the infinite monotone. So, Lady, if thy lips I kissed ; So, lady, if in eyes of steel I read the steady secret, wist Of no gray ghosts moulded of mist ; I did not bid my purpose kneel, Nor thine retire : I probe the scar Of self, the goddess keen and real Supreme within the naked wheel Of sun and moon and star and star, And find her but the ambient coil, Imagination’s avatar, A Buddha on his nenuphar Elaborate of Indian toil ; A mockery…
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…tmare’s wings ! The livid lightning’s wine we'll drink, And laugh for joy of life, and think Unutterable things ! The gallant caught the lady fair Below the arms that lay Curling in coils of yellow hair, And kissed her lips. ‘‘ Away !” The lover caught his mistress up And lifted her to heaven, Drank from her lips as from the cup Of poppies drowsed at even. ‘* Away, away, my lady may! The wind is fair and free ; Away, away, the glint of day Is faded from the ghostly grey That shines beyond the sea.” The lordly bridegroom took the bride As giants…
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…as a mere disguise; his true name was Jchann Schmidt.! Sir HERPES Z. So? Why the deception? S1R GRABSON J. A Jesuit, no doubt! But about Lady Percivale now? SiR HERPES Z, Better and better. Old Farmer Tyson, luckily enough, as it turned out, insisted on examination, and no less than: twenty-three skilled surgeons—all men of note !—declared her to be wzrxvo0 tntacta. SiR GRABSON J. Eh? What? SIR HERPES Z, You see, Englishmen—ah ! SIR GRARSON J. Er—ah? 1 The Abbot of the Fort-Augustus Abbey was at this time a German, Sirk HERPES Z, Ah! SIR GRABSO…
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…body by a thousand wills OF fire cross-twisted, bruised, is thrust, a spar, Wreckage of some wild sea, to seas without a star. Listen, O lady, listen, reverend Abbot, Lord of the Monastery, Fort Augustus !! Hear an awakening spirit’s a. b, ab! but Let not thy medieval logic thrust us Into contempt; nor, lady, can we trust us Wholly to thy most pardonable failing, Sentiment; one will rot, the other rust us. Let us just listen to the spirit ailing :— ’Tis like a God in bliss, or like a damned soul wailing ! 2 1 This monastery is chosen because of…
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…y in the wind of its own folly, thrown Into forgotten places and unknown. So I sing on! Sister and wife, dear wife, Light of my love and lady of my life, Answer if thou canst from the unsullied place, Unveiling fur one star-wink thy bright face ! Did we leave then, once cognisant, Time for some Fear to implant His poison? Did we hesitate ? Leave but one little chance to Fate? For one swift second did we wait? There is no need to answer : God is God, A jealous God and evil ; with His rod He smiteth fair and foul, and with His sword Divideth tini…
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… some say in the matter of this marriage, so let me tell you without further ado, I will be no party to forcing the inclinations of this lady. [ALAIN sw7z/es, DENYS fazses.] I—er—you understand me, sir? [ALAIN s¢277 smiles.) Wad it been freely offered to me, I should have been proud to accept her hand, for I perceive she is as good as she is beautiful [ALAIN stzll smiles], but as things are—er—TI have the honour, Messire, of refusing [ALAIN smiles more and more|—I—er—er-— [ALAIN’S saizle becomes positively insupportable, BLANCHE smiles through …
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…nd o’er the border I shall get myself a buxom bride, And ride—ride—ride ! [He rises. Ride to the blacksmith at Gretna Green, Kiss a fair lady and find her a queen ! O a Queen, for certain! It is I that ride, Ride in my youth and pride 1 The Indian generic term for any good spirit. 2 Rabbi Schimeon, who first wrote down the Zohar, the most sacred book of the Qabalah. With a long sword girt to my waist, And a strawberry mare sweet-paced, And a long night with no moon, no star! I will plunder the traveller from afar ;— Aye ! and find him an ancien…