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…s the desire never to see again their household gods, their wives, their children; never again to confront the lofty billows of the sea. Strange faces were there, of men and women, marked with a fatal beauty; it seemed to me that I had known them long since, at times and in countries whose exact remem- brance I could no longer fix, and which rather inspired me with a fraternal sympathy than with that fear which usually arises at the sight of the unknown. If I wished to try to define in any way their strange expression, I would say that never ha…
1928 · PDF PAGE 62
…s symphony for the eyes; and from all things, from every corner, from the cracks of drawers and from the folds of the curtains escapes a strange perfumea Come-back-to- me from Sumatrawhich is as it were the soul of the place. A true country of Cockaigne, I tell you, where all is rich, clean, glittering like a beauti- ful conception, like magnificent plate, like splendid gold-work, like a mosaic of jewels. All the treasures of the world flow to it as in the house of a man who has well toiled and has deserved well of the whole world. Strange …
1928 · PDF PAGE 11
THE STRANGER WHOM do you love best, man of enigmas? Tell us:Your father, your mother, your sister, or your brother? I have neither father, nor mother, nor sister, nor brother. Your friends? There you employ a word whose sense I have never understood. Your country? I do not know its latitude. Beauty? I would love it willingly, Goddess and Immortal. Gold? I hate is as you hate God. Ah, what then do you love, strange man? I love the clouds . . . . the clouds that float . . . down there . . . the marvellous clouds.
1928 · PDF PAGE 93
…ing like friendship with the Prince. But for people who are devoted by profession to comedy serious affairs have a fatal attraction, and strange as it may seem that ideas of patriotism and free- dom should possess themselves masterfully of the brain of an actor, one day Fanciullo joined a conspiracy which had been got up by some discontented noblemen. There are everywhere good people ready to denounce those atrabilious individuals who want to depose princes and reconstitute soci- ety without consulting it. The nobles in ques- tion were arrested…
1928 · PDF PAGE 46
Strange vision! Surely, said I to myself, this kind of poverty, if poverty there be, would not tolerate sordid economy; so noble a counte- nance is the guarantee of that. Why then does she remain willingly in a set of surroundings where she makes so startling 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 …
1928 · PDF PAGE 104
…to a sub- terranean dwelling-place where shone a luxury of which none of the above-ground dwellings of Paris can show a rival. It seemed strange to me that I should so often have passed this wondrous den without ever perceiving its door. There an exquisite though heavy atmosphere reigned, which made one forget almost in- stantly all the fastidious horrors of life. One breathed there a sombre happiness, somewhat like that which the lotus-eaters must experi- ence when, disembarking upon an enchanted isle, lighted by the gleam of eternal afternoon…
1928 · PDF PAGE 137
… my eyes remained fastened on the place wherein was buried my treasure, I saw (on a sudden) a little person who resembled the dead woman strangely; who, stamping on the fresh earth with a strange and hysterical violence, shouted with laughter, and said, I am the real Benedicta, and a rare bitch I am! and for the punishment of your folly and blind- ness you shall love me all the same. I, furi-
1928 · PDF PAGE 80
…l the complex feelings which struggle within the heart of man in the solemn hours of his life. Or lone like liken thee unto one of those strange dresses that dancing girls wear, where a dark transparent gauze lets glimmer the slain splendours of a shining skirt, as through a black present pierces the delicious past, and the vacillating stars of gold and silver with which it is sown represent those flames of fancy which do not truly kindle save under the deep mourning of Night.
1928 · PDF PAGE 73
…ining knives, and surgical instruments. In his right hand he held another phial, filled with a luminous red liquid, and which bore these strange words: Drink, this is my blood, the perfect cordial. In the left hand he bore a violin, which he used, no doubt, to sing his pleasures and his sorrows, and to spread the contagion of his folly on the nights of the Witches Sabbath. From his delicate ankles dragged some rings of a broken chain of gold and when the constraint which this occasioned him made him lower his eyes to the ground, he contempla…
1928 · PDF PAGE 107
…to persuade us that he does not exist. His recollection of this famous orator natu- rally led us to the subject of Universities, and my strange companion assured me that he did not consider it beneath him in many cases to inspire the pen, the tongue, and the brain of dons, and that he was almost always present in person, although invisible, at all academic gatherings. Encouraged by so much affability, I asked him for news of God, and if he had seen Him lately. He answered me with an indifference shaded by a certain sadness, We bow when we mee…
1928 · PDF PAGE 96
… wept, gesticulated, with an indestructible aureole about his head, an aure- ole invisible for all except for myself, where mingled in a strange amalgam the rays of art with the halo of the martyr. Fanciullo, by I know not what particular grace, introduced the
1928 · PDF PAGE 98
…flamed with an interior fire like that of jealousy and bitterness, even while he ostensibly applauded the talents of his old friend, the strange buf- foon who made such excellent fun of death. At a certain moment I saw 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 mome…
1928 · PDF PAGE 108
…will give you the stake which you would have won had you been lucky, namely, the power to sustain and conquer during your whole life the strange malady called boredom, which is the source alike of all your diseases and of your wretched progress. Never shall you form a desire but I will help you to realize it; you shall reign over your vulgar fellows; at your service shall be all flatteries, even all ado- rations; silver and gold and precious stones, and fairy palaces shall come to seek you, shall beg you to accept them without your making a sin…
1928 · PDF PAGE 68
…ice, for in that case we ourselves should be unjust judges. Thus some blunders were committed on this day, which one might consider very strange if prudence rather than caprice were the distinc- tive and necessary character of the fairy folk. Thus, the power of drawing fortune mag- netically to himself was given to the sole heir of a very rich family, who, not being endowed
1928 · PDF PAGE 84
rounded with all these strange and shining trees whose names I have forgotten; an intoxi- cating, indefinable perfume in the air; a power- ful scent of rose and of musk in the house, and further, behind our little estate, tall masts swinging on the swell; around us, at the end of the room lighted by a rosy light filtered by blinds, decorated with fresh mats and heady flowers, with seats here and there in Portu- guese rococo style of a heavy dark wood, where she would rest herself, so calm, so well at ease, smoking tobacco slightly flavoured wit…
1928 · PDF PAGE 118
…d of regret. Silly baby, with His God that nobody but he can see, then said the third, all of whose little personality was marked by a strange vivacity
1928 · PDF PAGE 111
…en compared to that which he had undergone in the paternal garret. But I must tell you that the little chap sometimes aston- ished me by strange attacks of precocious sad-
1928 · PDF PAGE 119
…at I should sleep in the same bed as my nurse. He drew his comrades nearer to him, and low- ered his voice. Oh, you do not know what a strange feeling it gives, not to be alone in bed, but with ones nurse in the shadows. As I was not asleep, I amused myself while she slept in passing my hand over her arms and her neck and her shoulders. Her arms and neck are ever so much fatter tan those of all other women, and her skin is so soft, so soft, that one would say it was letter paper, or silk paper. I had so much pleasure in this that I should ha…