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…r dusty conclaves. I had as lief be a scholar. SIR JAMES. If the world were like thee, Christendom would perish in a year and a day. Thy good knights comrades would row the Turkish galleys, and a few prize fools—such as thou—make sport for their Emirs or guard their women. JOCELYN. And a good thing. I am weary of crusading. The sacred Sepulchre is empty—praise God, Who performed a miracle to make it so l—and we must perforce come and fill thousands more with good Christian flesh and blood, that was alive and jolly. Let us be off, though! The Prec…
1911 · PDF PAGE 154
…the adept more peaceably. With the rotten Sephardi pointing—blasphemers! And here! don’t you blaspheme, youngfeller my lad. You’ve got a good woman: make the most of her." " A great woman, perhaps.” “A good woman. In the next siege of Paris I hope I shall not have to boil your head; I prefer thick soup. A good woman. A sister of the Silver Star, my good goat] ” "I do not understand, master I ” “You never will, I think. Ο generation of vipers! Ο prosy princoxl Ο coxcomb of Kafoozelum I " ”I beg your pardon, sirl You know she failed in the abyss?…
1911 · PDF PAGE 96
… of the way, girl ! [She pus/1e: LEDMIYA roughly/”ram the window] Booty! He must be well and victorious! Bring him in! Now we shall know—good tidings! good tidings! [Shepaces?שקand down .]/?!”שמשמ /”?[6711631151 with a young girl. ACHMET. The duty of my Lord! Good tidings from the battle. The spoils of my lord's spear! He prays you to keep her among the women until he return and place her in his harem. LAYLAH. A man! He is a man! I have borne a man- child, a lion, a conqueror! ACHME'I‘. Indeed, he has slain twenty Christians with his own hand. …
1911 · PDF PAGE 83
…ave maiden. LAYLAH. You are—an infidel. Ι had not my dagger, or your shriek —not mine—would have summoned my kin. RINALDO. I have a score good knights within sound of my horn. And your kin are but the dotards and women and little children. Your fighting men are away. LAYLAH. Ay, slaying your good knights. 75
1911 · PDF PAGE 80
…their kennels to-nightl SIR JAMES. Peace to thy ribaldry! Here comes the Preceptor. To saddle! JOCELYN. Why cannot he ride with us, as a good knight and gay? SIR JAMES. Who poises in his mind the destinies of Christendom needs not in his ear thy fool's prattle, or thy fool’s face at his elbow. Though he have seen but five-and- twenty summers he is wiser than many a greybeardl See, even afar, how weightily he sits his horse. His forehead bent, his shoulders arched—~ JOCELYN. The seat of a hunchback 1 SIR JAMES. Like Atlas supporting the world. SI…
1911 · PDF PAGE 113
…st with their ladies. There ispresent moreover a motley crowd of all classesofsociety, Christian andSaracen. Note esfiecially ISAAC, afat good-temferedjew, and an URCHIN of some twelve years old. Infront arejugg/ers, tumolers, singers and dancers, huchsters, etc., all of whom ply their trade merrily. The Oficial Procession now enters, the guard clearing away thesefolh. All take their seats, chatting. The Bishop is enthronea’, in full canonicals. He is sugfiported by three acolytes, bearing bel/, book and candle. LAYLAH brought in and [Sound to sta…
1911 · PDF PAGE 276
… our House! Holy art Thou, Thou that knowest the Supreme Mysteries ! CHORUS. We call Thee, O Thrice Holy! FIRST PROBATIONER. Ο Thou, All Good, we call Thee! VIRGO. I. [Rising] Not Good alone, Brethren! But all complete in the perfect Equilibrium. FR. GEMINI. Ay, The Balance must be kept even. Sister, let us invoke the Lord of Knowledge! VIRGO. He gave unto you, children of His Voice, the 98
1911 · PDF PAGE 107
….” CLERK. Thirdly, that you did discard the modesty of womanhood and put on armour enchanted. PROSECUTOR. We say that, forasmuch as many good knights have ridden against it with sword and lance and not availed to pierce it, this was by magic and forbidden art. LAYLAH [contemptuous/y]. It was good armour. BISHOP. The prisoner mocks us. On the third count, guilty. [JUDGES echo “ Guilty.” CLERK. Fourthly,that you did at midnight upon Martinmas, 99
1911 · PDF PAGE 131
…pure animal beat the mere brute. White men ought not to fight: they ought to think, and do lovely physical things, things gracious and of good report." “Ida! my Ida! Could you see your nostrils twitching! I can imagine you fighting with all their fierceness, incapable of keeping to the rules of boxing.” “ Ι hate you,” she said. “ In everything you see—" “ Your lust of blood," he answered gravely. “ It is true," said Ida slowly. “There is no light of battle in your eye. You see it as a picture." “ It is a hieroglyph." “ But it is a fight ! " “ I do …
1911 · PDF PAGE 125
…lready I run to a full page in the American papers, my name intimately coupled with that of a duke’s daughter whom I have never seen." “ Good, good l " she agreed—" so much for fame. But are you really great? Your laughter was better than Zarathoustra Ξ What is your real secret? Why did you love your neigh— bour? Why did you speak the truth? How did you come to know anything at all well enough to be able to laugh as 117
1911 · PDF PAGE 165
…ystics shut themselves up completely and for ever. Not only is their wealth-producing capacity lost to society, but so is their love and good—will, and worst of all, so is their example and precept. Christ, at the height of his career, found time to wash the feet of his disciples ; any Master who does not do this on every plane is a Black Brother. The Hindus honour no man who becomes “ Sannyasi " (nearly our “hermit”) until he has faithfully fulfilled all his duties as a man and a citizen, Celibacy is immoral, and the celibate shirks one of the …
1911 · PDF PAGE 10
THE EQUINOX We are further glad to hear such good reports from every branch. The North and the Midlands are already making London look to its laurels; the West has surpassed all hope; America, South Africa, Burma, India, the Malay Peninsula, West Africa, all thrive. Australia has received an important addition to its strength ; we have excellent accounts from British Columbia, Paraguay, and Brazil. France is being specially nursed at present, but Holland, Switzerland, and Germany need no such aid. The work in Spain is still hampered by politica…
1911 · PDF PAGE 95
…t, riding hard. He bears a fair—haired child across the saddle. Oh, do look! LAYLAH. Is there no messenger? LEDMIYA. It is Achmet! It is good Achmet! 87
1911 · PDF PAGE 239
…ave, if nought so bright may live, All earth can take or Heaven can give. Saturn and Love their long repose Shall burst, more bright and good Than all who fell, than One who rose, Than many unsubdued. Not gold, not blood, their altar dowers, But votive tears and symbol flowers. Oh, cease! must hate and death return ? Cease! must men kill and die? Cease! drain not to its dregs the urn Of bitter prophecy. The world is weary of the past. Oh, might it die or rest at last! Βκο. ARIES. 1-4444. The battle is indeed fought. SOL. IN ARIES. 333—333. The v…
1911 · PDF PAGE 233
…e creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates; Neither to change, nor falter, nor repent; This, like thy glory, Titan, is to be Good, great and joyous, beautiful and free; This is alone Life, Joy, Empire, and Victory! [SCORPIOþ/ays in awordame * BRO. ARIES. Hail to Thee that sailest heavenwardsl Hail to Thee in whose eye is a Flame of Fire! Hail, Lord of the Destroying Army! MARS. Hail, brethren. BRO. ARIES. Hail unto Thee, that hast fought at the Side of our Lord in the great Battle !} Hail unto Thee, our Lady of Tumult ! Terrible and…
1911 · PDF PAGE 134
…mpagne of the Cafe Riche are more to be desired than all the hashish dreams of all the wicked, and than all the divine dreams 01 all the good. We shall walk there, and drive back. This incense shall be kindled, and this lamp left burning.” He took a strange object from a locked cabinet. It had flowered chased pipes of gold, copper and platinum, coiling about an egg of crystal. The three snakes met just above the egg, as if to bite or to kiss. Rolles filled the egg with a pale blue liquid from a Venetian flask, then pressed the heads of the serpent…
1911 · PDF PAGE 143
…” she smiled back. “And perhaps if we had our wish, we should both be disappointed. Now I am going home to write letters, and if you are good you shall lunch with me to-morrow.” I35
1911 · PDF PAGE 101
THE SCORPION No! I am sorry. Ι am your good friend. I will take you back to your father. He is not dead. I am sure he is not dead. THE CHILD. I do not understand you. LAYLAH. Oh, you shall understand. Yourfather will make you understand! [changing again to roughness]. What was your mother like? Had she your golden hair, and the com- plexion like a shaved sow? And the simper, and the grey eyes? I have grey eyes too; but mine are steel—grey, true as steel; and yours are chill and watery. But you have your father’s temper, and his silence, and his…
1911 · PDF PAGE 114
…or you'll never be fat. URCHIN. I don't wan’t to be fat. I wan’t to kill all the people. ISAAC. Well, well, you shall one day, if you’re good. URCHIN. Yes, I will. [06
1911 · PDF PAGE 109
…ere miraculously fed. G. M. OF ST [. A new miracle if the knave escape. But will not your lordship sup with me to-night? BISHOP. Thanks, good Grand Master. FIRST TORTURER. My lord, I think I heard a sigh. PHYSICIAN. Only a natural motion of the body, by your 101