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beautiful, fresh-looking child, dressed in those country clothes which are so full of coquetry. Luxury, freedom from care, and the custom of seeing wealth on all sides of them, make these children so pretty that one might think them made of another clay than the children of the middle or the poorer class. Beside him lay in the grass a splendid toy, as fresh as its master; varnished, gilded, dressed in a purple robe and covered with plumes and beads; but the child was paying no attention to his chosen toy. And here is what he was looking at. On …
1928 · PDF PAGE 46
…ng a stain? But my curiosity leading me to pass close to her, I thought that I could guess the reason. The tall widow held by the hand a child, clothed like herself in black. However moderate might be the charge of admission, it might perhaps be sufficient to pay for one of the ne- cessities of that tiny being, or better still, a su- perfluity, perhaps a toy. And no doubt she went home on foot ever meditating, ever dreaming, alone, always alone; for a child is troublesome, selfish, with- out sweetness or patience; and could not even, as a dog o…
1928 · PDF PAGE 98
…His Highness lean back towards a little page-boy who was standing behind him and whisper in his ear. The merry countenance of the pretty child lit up with a smile; then he hurriedly left the royal box as if to execute an urgent commission. Some minutes later a sharp and prolonged hiss interrupted Fanciullo in one of his best moments, tearing asunder at one and the same moment every ear and every heart, and, from that part of the room whence this unex- pected sound of disapproval had leapt, a child, stifled with laughter, ran into the corridor. …
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II THE DESPAIR OF THE OLD WOMAN THE little shrivelled-up old woman felt her- self happy again in looking on the pretty child, to whom everyone was paying court, whom everyone was trying to please; a pretty crea- ture, as fragile as the little old woman herself, and like her, too, without teeth or hair. And she approached it, wooing it with baby-talk and pleasing faces. But the frightened baby struggled in the arms of the hag, and filled the house with its screams. Then the good old woman withdrew herself again into her eternal solitude, and wep…
1928 · PDF PAGE 110
…t then per- fectly legitimate to attribute to maternal love all those words and actions which a mother says or does in the matter of her child? And yet, listen to this little story; where I was strangely mystified by the most natural illusion possible.
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…le 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 her tooth and nail, but in vain. They have diminished nothing
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XX THE FAIRY GIFTS THE Fairies had met in solemn session to distribute their gifts among all the new-born, children who had come into life in the last twenty-four hours. All these old-fashioned and capricious sis- ters of Fate, all these bizarre mothers of joy and sorrow, were of many different kinds; some had a gloomy and sombre expression, others, a mischievous and clever one; some were young, who had always been young; oth- ers old, who had always been old. Every father who believed in fairies had come, each one carrying his new-born child i…
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… MOONS GIFTS THE Moon, who is caprice itself looked in at the window while thou dost sleep in they cra- dle, and said to herself, This child pleases me. Softly she descended her ladder of clouds and passed noiselessly through the window- panes. Then she stretched herself upon thee with the supple tenderness of a mother, and laid her colours on thy face. From that thine eyes are turned green, and thy cheeks are marvellous pale. It is through looking at this celestial visitant that thine eyes are grown so strangely large, and she has so tender…
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…e perfumes that trouble the will, and the savage and voluptuous beasts that are the symbols of their madness. And it is for that, spoilt child accursèd and belovèd, that I am crouched this moment at thy feet, seeking in all thy being the reflection of that fearful Divinity, that god-mother pro- phetic, that poisonous nurse of all the mad- men-of-the-moon.
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…tle sister; who has all of eleven years and who is already a woman, and so beautiful. She will succeed, no doubt, this good Dorothy; the childs master is so miserly, too miserly to understand any other beauty than that of gold.
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…sion 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 composed aspect, of an al- …
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…rs, but upon him- self also, that his twilight mania was wont to wreak its rage. The first died insane, unable to recognize his wife and child; the second bears in himself the inquietude of everlasting little-ease, and though he were dowered with all the honours that republics can bestow, I think that the twi- light would still inflame in him a burning desire of imaginary distinctions. The night which brings shadows, which brought shadows into their minds, makes light in mine. And though it is not so rare to see the same cause beget two
1928 · PDF PAGE 175
… with himself that he runs indiscreetly between the legs or on the knees of a visitor as if he were sure of pleasing, as boisterous as a child, as silly as a beldame, sometimes as snappish and insolent as a ser- vant. Shame above all upon those four-footed serpents, shivering and idle, that they call Ital- ian greyhounds, and who do not keep in their pointed muzzles enough scent to follow the trail of a friend, or in their flattened heads enough intelligence to play at dominoes. Away to the kennel with all these weari- some parasites. Let them …
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…er robe of many- coloured smoke the Fairy who was nearest to him, cried, Ah, dear Lady, you are forgetting us, there is still my little child; I should be sorry to have come here for nothing. The Fairy might have been embarrassed, for there remained no longer anything at all; how- ever; she remembered in time a law very well known, though rarely applied in the supernatu- ral world inhabited by these impalpable deities, friendly to man, and often constrained to yield to his passions, such as the Fairies, the
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than that, you want to be dressed like them, and do and say the same things and speak with the same voice . . . One of the four children, who for some sec- onds past was no longer listening to his talk, but with a startling fixity had fastened his gaze upon I knew not what point of heaven, said suddenly, Look, look there; do you see Him? He is sitting on that little lonely cloud, that lit- tle fire-coloured cloud that moves so softly, and He tooone would say that He was look- ing at us. But who then? asked the others. God, he replied, w…
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…man, who is never willing, I know not why, to mix himself up in the business of a suicide. At last a doctor turned dup who said that the child had been dead for several hours. When later on we had to unclothe him for burial the de- gree of rigor mortis was such that, despairing of bending the limbs, we were obliged to tear and cut the clothes to take them off him. The Commissary of Police, to whom natu- rally I had to report the incident, looked at me asquint, and said, This matter needs clearing up, moved doubtless by an inveterate desire an…
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…s for other men. In the retired district where I dwelt, and where broad brass-covered spaces still separate the buildings, I often saw a child whose eager and merry face attracted me at the first glance more than did that of anyone else. He had posed more than once for me, and I have turned him at one time into a little gipsy, at another into an angel, at an- other into a Cupid; I have made him carry the strollers violin, the Crown of Thorns and the Nails of Christs Passion, and the torch of Eros. I took finally so lively a pleasure in all th…