This is a list of all the questions and their associated study carrel identifiers. One can learn a lot of the "aboutness" of a text simply by reading the questions.
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7377 | In death there is no remembrance of Thee; in the grave who shall give Thee thanks? |
7377 | Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth? |
7377 | After having once received the human organism, why should a soul choose to go back to the lesser and more imperfect organism of an animal? |
7377 | And will you punish him because he can not become so? |
7377 | But how can we bring the soul down on the sense plane when it is ethereal and finer than anything that we can perceive with our senses? |
7377 | Can a man who possesses the slightest common sense be so unreasonable? |
7377 | Do we see in nature any other higher form evolved out of the human body? |
7377 | Do you think that the thought- forces of one life- time will end suddenly after death? |
7377 | Does heredity explain such cases? |
7377 | Does it not seem absurd to you? |
7377 | Does the theory of heredity explain it? |
7377 | Even if we admit this theory of heredity, then what do we understand? |
7377 | From whom did he inherit them? |
7377 | How can heredity explain such cases? |
7377 | How can something come out of nothing? |
7377 | How can such cases be explained by the theory of hereditary transmission? |
7377 | How can that come into existence which did not exist before? |
7377 | How can we worship Him, how call Him just and merciful? |
7377 | How is it possible for a lesser manifestation to hold a greater one? |
7377 | If the omnipotent personal God created human souls out of nothing, could He not make all souls equally good and happy? |
7377 | If we do not admit this law then the problem will arise: How can non- existence become existent? |
7377 | In Psalms we read,"Wilt Thou shew wonders to the dead? |
7377 | Is that"tendency to vary"indefinite, or is it limited by any definite law? |
7377 | Now that we have outgrown them why should we go back to them? |
7377 | Now, what are those germs like? |
7377 | Parents? |
7377 | Shall the dead arise and praise Thee?" |
7377 | Shall we not be justified if we say that the end of physical evolution is the attainment of the perfection of animal form? |
7377 | Similarly what would you think if God punishes a man because he can not become perfect within a lifetime? |
7377 | The question was asked,"How shall they produce resurrection?" |
7377 | WHICH IS SCIENTIFIC-- RESURRECTION OR REINCARNATION? |
7377 | We ask, how can a single cell reproduce the whole body of the offspring, its mind, character and all the peculiarities of an organism? |
7377 | What is love? |
7377 | What is sin? |
7377 | What is that germ like? |
7377 | What is the cause? |
7377 | What regulates them? |
7377 | When did he inherit? |
7377 | Where did he get all these powers? |
7377 | Where is that common stock and why will certain germs acquire certain tendencies and other germs retain other peculiarities? |
7377 | Wherefrom do they acquire these tendencies, these peculiarities? |
7377 | Who can tell how long it will take to reach that goal? |
7377 | Who made one honest and saintly, another an idiot, and so forth? |
7377 | Who made these dissimilarities? |
7377 | Why are they invisible to us now? |
7377 | Why does He make one to enjoy all the blessings of life and another to suffer all miseries throughout eternity? |
7377 | Why does He not create all souls equal? |
7377 | Why is it that the children of the same parents show a marked dissimilarity to their parents and to each other? |
7377 | Why is one born intelligent and another idiotic? |
7377 | Why is one born with good tendencies and another with evil ones? |
7377 | Why is one man virtuous throughout his life and another bestial? |
7377 | Why is there this difference? |
7377 | Why should a greater manifestation choose more limited forms in preference to those of others? |
7377 | Why will one soul be highly advanced spiritually while another is entirely ignorant and idiotic? |
7377 | Why? |
7377 | Why? |
7377 | Would we be able to see those pictures? |
7377 | _ Poem on Pythagoras, Dryden''s Ovid._ Here it may be asked, if we existed before our birth why do we not remember? |
26364 | And his disciples asked him, saying,''Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?'' |
26364 | A well- known man once was asked the question:"What becomes of a man''s soul after death?" |
26364 | Are not the great majority of the events of our present life completely forgotten? |
26364 | But under this view, what is the exact significance of the Judgment Day and the Physical Resurrection? |
26364 | But why spread these instances over more pages? |
26364 | Do you know the dogma of the Church and the belief of masses of the orthodox Christians of the early centuries? |
26364 | How have those deserved the partiality of fortune, who live in happy lands, while many of their brethren suffer and weep in other parts of the world?" |
26364 | How many can recall the events of the youthful life? |
26364 | I said to myself, what is this? |
26364 | In the first place, let us consider that phase of the question which asks:"Does the soul incarnate immediately after death?" |
26364 | Is it Reincarnation? |
26364 | Is it not perfectly fair and reasonable to consider these cases as similar to the absence of memory in cases of Reincarnation? |
26364 | Is it not worthy of our attention and consideration? |
26364 | Is that"something"connected with the"soul"rather than the mind of the child? |
26364 | Is that"something"that which men call Metempsychosis-- Re- Birth-- Reincarnation? |
26364 | Is this equality of opportunity and experience, or Justice? |
26364 | Is this phenomena to be included in the Proofs of Reincarnation? |
26364 | Rather an advanced form of philosophy for"barbarians,"is it not? |
26364 | Some other factor is there-- is it Reincarnation? |
26364 | St. Augustine, in his"Confessions,"makes use of these remarkable words:"Did I not live in another body before entering my mother''s womb?" |
26364 | The next phase of the question:"Where does the soul dwell between incarnations?" |
26364 | The question is, Will the immortal soul be born again in the same individual, physically transformed-- into the same person?" |
26364 | The third phase of the question:"What is the final state or abode of the soul?" |
26364 | Think of this-- is this Justice? |
26364 | This being so, why should we attempt to speculate about The End? |
26364 | What are the cause of these phenomena? |
26364 | What crime have they committed? |
26364 | What has Adam to do with your soul, if it came fresh from the mint of the Maker, pure and unsullied-- how could his sin taint your new soul? |
26364 | Who has not been seized at times with the consciousness of a mighty''oldness''of soul? |
26364 | Who has not experienced the consciousness of having felt the thing before-- having thought it some time in the dim past? |
26364 | Who has not gazed at some old painting, or piece of statuary, with the sense of having seen it all before? |
26364 | Who has not had these experiences?" |
26364 | Who has not met persons for the first time, whose presence awakened memories of a past lying far back in the misty ages of long ago? |
26364 | Who has not witnessed new scenes that appear old, very old? |
26364 | Why am I not a prince and a great lord, instead of a poor pilgrim on the earth, ungrateful and rebellious? |
26364 | Why are they here on earth? |
26364 | Why is not a wretched African negro in my place in Paris, in conditions of comfort? |
26364 | Why is the unequal distribution of the terrible evils that fall upon some men, and spare others? |
26364 | You doubt it? |
21533 | Is this a reason against it? 21533 Is this hypothesis so laughable merely because it is the oldest? |
21533 | What demon is this that has taken possession of me? |
21533 | What have I done? |
21533 | Why act at all, the objection will be urged, if everything is foreseen by the Law? 21533 A man clothed in soft raiment? 21533 A prophet? 21533 A reed shaken with the wind? 21533 And his disciples asked him, saying: Master, who did sin, this man or his parents, that he was born blind? 21533 And once more, why not another time all those steps, to perform which the views of Eternal Rewards so powerfully assist us? 21533 And that which even I must forget_ now_, is that necessarily forgotten for ever? |
21533 | And would this chastisement, multiplied millions of times without the faintest reason, never have stirred the conscience of the Church? |
21533 | And yet, who suspected this until he had gone out for a few minutes and then returned to the bed- room? |
21533 | As a final example, do not infant prodigies prove that men are not born equal? |
21533 | As children have in them no sin capable of meriting so terrible a punishment, tell me what answer can be given?" |
21533 | Because the human understanding, before the sophistries of the schools had disciplined and debilitated it, lighted upon it at once? |
21533 | But Herod said, John have I beheaded; but who is this of whom I hear such things? |
21533 | But what went ye out for to see? |
21533 | But what went ye out for to see? |
21533 | But why should not every individual man have existed more than once in this world? |
21533 | Can he have been in one and the self- same life a sensual Jew and a spiritual Christian? |
21533 | Can no reply be given to this terrible charge brought against Divinity? |
21533 | Can the millions of descendants of the mythical Adam have been chastised for a crime in which they have had no share? |
21533 | Could divine Law be less compassionate than human law? |
21533 | Could the assassin, who has lost all memory of the crime committed the previous evening, change his deed or its results in the slightest degree? |
21533 | Did he mention it only to ridicule the superstitions of his contemporaries, as seems evident from the_ Timæus_? |
21533 | Did the Fathers of the Church teach Pre- existence? |
21533 | Do I bring away so much from once that there is nothing to repay the trouble of coming back? |
21533 | Does Plato take metempsychosis seriously, as one would be tempted to believe after reading the_ Republic_? |
21533 | Does forgetfulness efface faults or destroy their consequences? |
21533 | Does human justice, in spite of its imperfection, punish the offspring of criminals? |
21533 | Does not the man, who commits suicide, himself push forward the hand on the dial of life, setting it at the fatal hour? |
21533 | Does not the study of Nature, at each step, belie this insensate waste, of which no human being would be guilty? |
21533 | Goethe writes as follows to his friend Madame von Stein:"Tell me what destiny has in store for us? |
21533 | Have such arguments ever been justified by the voice of conscience? |
21533 | Have travelled over in one and the same life? |
21533 | Have you never had remembrances of a former state?... |
21533 | How can such frightful inequalities be made to appear consistent with the infinite wisdom and goodness of God?... |
21533 | How can we be said to have been banished from a place in which we never were? |
21533 | In the lineage of these prodigies has there been found a single ancestor capable of explaining these faculties, as astonishing as they are premature? |
21533 | Is it not rash for us, in our profound ignorance, to criticise the workings of a boundless Wisdom? |
21533 | Is it not sheer blasphemy to attribute such folly to the Soul of the world? |
21533 | Is it possible to attribute to the influence of surroundings alone a degree of moral poverty so profound as this? |
21533 | Is it the Church which has always imposed_ the letter_ of the Bible and condemned all who have attempted to set forth_ its spirit_?] |
21533 | Is man to remain in a state of dejection and discouragement, as though some irreparable catastrophe had befallen him? |
21533 | Is not the Law strong enough to save him, if he is not to die; and if he is, have we any right to interfere?... |
21533 | Is or is not that which is called magnetic effluvia a something, a stuff or a substance, invisible and imponderable though it be?... |
21533 | Is there a previous life the elements of which have prepared the conditions of the life now being lived by each of us? |
21533 | Is this another instance, like the one just mentioned, of tampering with the writings of this Father of the Church? |
21533 | Jesus began to say unto the multitudes concerning John, What went ye out into the wilderness to see? |
21533 | On Charpignon recommending that she should try to turn_ her_ aside from her purpose, she replied:"What can I do? |
21533 | Or because I forget that I have been here already? |
21533 | Ought not baptism to have been instituted immediately after the sin, and should it not have been placed within the reach of all? |
21533 | St. Augustine said:"Did I not live in another body, or somewhere else, before entering my mother''s womb? |
21533 | The question, however, might be asked: How is the transition made from one kingdom to another? |
21533 | To every awakened soul the question comes: Why does evil exist? |
21533 | WHY DOES PAIN EXIST? |
21533 | What is the missing link? |
21533 | What soul could admit that the innocent should be punished for the guilty? |
21533 | When Jesus came into the coasts of Cæsarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I, the Son of man, am? |
21533 | Where in Nature can there be found such lack of proportion between cause and effect, crime and punishment? |
21533 | Where lingers eternal justice then? |
21533 | Wherefore are thrift and foresight lacking in so many men, who are consequently condemned to lifelong poverty and wretchedness? |
21533 | Wherefore has it bound us so closely to each other? |
21533 | Who is to interpret the Bible if it is an allegorical book? |
21533 | Who would affirm that the dimensions of space are limited to four? |
21533 | Why does the astral body leave the physical during sleep? |
21533 | Why hast thou made me thus?'' |
21533 | Why may not even I have already performed those steps of my perfecting which bring to men only temporal punishments and rewards? |
21533 | Why not try and understand the true meaning of the figurative statement before criticising? |
21533 | Why should I not come back as often as I am capable of acquiring fresh knowledge, fresh expertness? |
21533 | Why stretch out a hand to the man who falls into the water before our very eyes? |
21533 | Why this excess of intelligence, used mainly for the exploiting of folly? |
21533 | Would not this delay in itself be an injustice? |
21533 | [ Footnote 196: Does this obscure passage refer to the resurrection of the body?] |
21533 | genus attonitum gelidæ formidine mortis, Quid Styga, quid tenebras, quid nomina vana timetis, Materiam vatum, falsique piacula mundi? |
1162 | A real blacksmith''s biceps, eh, Warden? 1162 Am I greater than the gods that I may thwart the will of the gods? |
1162 | An''what in the name of Sam Hill are they hard- riding for if it ai n''t for us? |
1162 | And if he do n''t come back? |
1162 | And if they wo n''t? |
1162 | And the hill? |
1162 | And then what happens? |
1162 | And then? |
1162 | And what harm in that? |
1162 | And you believe this wonder, Lodbrog? |
1162 | And your heaven? |
1162 | Anything more? |
1162 | Are there others? |
1162 | Are you afraid of the damned Mormons? |
1162 | Are you going to stop knuckle- talk? |
1162 | Are you going to stop your knuckle- talking? |
1162 | But are you certain? |
1162 | But did you see them sore?--before the healing? |
1162 | But the news, master? 1162 But they do n''t come near them?" |
1162 | But what if they intend treachery? |
1162 | But what will we do with the desert coming? |
1162 | But, man,I reasoned with him,"what do I know of myself about this Cho- Sen? |
1162 | Ca n''t they make up their minds what they''re goin''to do, an''then do it? |
1162 | Can you tell us the name of the hill? |
1162 | Did n''t Ed invent the knuckle- talk? 1162 Did n''t you know that? |
1162 | Did you ever forget a man''s name you used to know as well as your own brother''s? 1162 Did you hear it boil?" |
1162 | Did you read that grocery sign? |
1162 | Do n''t like the Mormons, eh, son? |
1162 | Do you remember all you read? |
1162 | Do you think you can win to her? |
1162 | Dunham, can your boy go along with Jesse? |
1162 | Eating?--drinking?--fighting? |
1162 | Enough of what? |
1162 | For look you, who cares for flowers where flowers always are? 1162 Getting religion, eh?" |
1162 | Has he not been waiting two hours as it is? |
1162 | Have I not wine- guzzled a- plenty and passed strange nights in all the provinces? 1162 Have they got the fisherman yet?" |
1162 | Have you any complaint to make, Standing? |
1162 | Have you got faith in it? 1162 He''s the stuff, ai n''t he, Ed?" |
1162 | How am I goin''to get a wink of sleep? |
1162 | How goes it with the Professor? |
1162 | How like you her? |
1162 | How long have you been in? |
1162 | How many sick tramps are there, my boy? |
1162 | How much longer are they going to keep you in? |
1162 | How''s the heart? |
1162 | How''s tricks? |
1162 | Is he God? |
1162 | Is it not said that this event was prophesied of old time? |
1162 | Is it not strange, so simple a man, a fisherman? |
1162 | Is there anything you want to complain about? |
1162 | Jesse,he asked,"are you afraid of the Indians?" |
1162 | Jesus did not steal? |
1162 | Just what, pray? |
1162 | Late news? |
1162 | Mayhap from the English Court? |
1162 | Me? |
1162 | Now, my boy, where is that? |
1162 | Now, professor, how do I know all this stuff about_ kimchi_? 1162 Oh, ho, you''re threatening me, are you? |
1162 | Or how could I have known it? |
1162 | Quick and brilliant is it? |
1162 | Say, Laban, supposin''you got killed here--"Who?--me? |
1162 | Since you are in haste,Henry Bohemond proposed to me,"and since there are three of them and three of us, why not settle it at the one time?" |
1162 | Since you are so sure of it, why do n''t you accept my proposition? |
1162 | Some man raised from the dead to put such strange light in your eyes? |
1162 | Some you forget? |
1162 | Surely you do n''t think I''m holding out because I enjoy it? |
1162 | That''s correct, and why not you? 1162 Then he can go on standing it?" |
1162 | Then what is its name, my boy? |
1162 | Then who am I,I asked,"to make liars of the prophets? |
1162 | Then why do you fear to talk about it? |
1162 | Then why worry? |
1162 | They will not sell? |
1162 | Think it is curtains? |
1162 | Think so? |
1162 | This Caiaphas, I have heard of him as high priest, then who is this Hanan? |
1162 | Warden,I said,"do you see the way I am smiling? |
1162 | Was he seditious? |
1162 | We must have our women in heaven, else what is heaven for? |
1162 | Well, then, Jesse,he said,"will you go with Jed to the spring for water?" |
1162 | Well, what is it? |
1162 | What about this dynamite? |
1162 | What are his plans? |
1162 | What are they? |
1162 | What are you going to do about it? |
1162 | What did I tell you? |
1162 | What did it matter? |
1162 | What do you think our chances are? |
1162 | What do you think, Doc? |
1162 | What is it? |
1162 | What is it? |
1162 | What is the other count? |
1162 | What manner of man can he be to possess such power? 1162 What next? |
1162 | What''s the matter with the ornery cusses? |
1162 | What''s to prevent your inventing it right here in solitary? |
1162 | Where is it now? |
1162 | Which is? |
1162 | Which is? |
1162 | Which was? |
1162 | Who ever heard of a man smiling after ten days of it? |
1162 | Who had squealed? |
1162 | Who is this he? |
1162 | Who knows anything about dynamite? |
1162 | Who was this John? |
1162 | Who, for instance? |
1162 | Whom did they crucify there, young scholar? 1162 Why burden my mind with thoughts about certainties?" |
1162 | Why did n''t you call me? |
1162 | Why did you not tell me before? |
1162 | Why do n''t they come in to us? |
1162 | Why not? 1162 Why not?" |
1162 | Why not? |
1162 | Why such haste? 1162 Why such haste?" |
1162 | Will he stand it? |
1162 | Will you give me your scalps? |
1162 | Yes? |
1162 | You believe that in the flash of an eye the festering sores departed from the lepers? |
1162 | You can cinch me as tight as you please, but if I smile ten days from now will you give the Bull Durham to Morrell and Oppenheimer? |
1162 | You mean mine is an iron- lined stomach? |
1162 | You mean that is n''t its name? |
1162 | You seen that smooth- faced old cuss? |
1162 | You think he''ll stand ten days of it, Doc.? |
1162 | A hunger strike, eh?" |
1162 | Ai n''t that right, Jake?" |
1162 | Am I any the less for these mutilations, for these subtractions of the flesh? |
1162 | Am I correct in assuming that you have read an account in some diary published later by this Daniel Foss? |
1162 | And I stayed my foot, and held my hand, for who was I to thwart the will and way of so greatly serene and sweetly sure a man as this? |
1162 | And again, how? |
1162 | And ai n''t you and me improving on it right along? |
1162 | And always it was dynamite, dynamite,"Where is the dynamite?" |
1162 | And at the end, de Villehardouin?" |
1162 | And ever the eternal question was propounded to me: Where was the dynamite? |
1162 | And ever, as we rode, Vandervoot brought up the rear, wondering,"God in heaven, what now?" |
1162 | And in such noble company how could I be less noble? |
1162 | And that very night did not Arius die in the street? |
1162 | And what I witnessed set me bawling,"What now, Vandervoot?" |
1162 | And what can even the Warden of a great prison do in reprisal on a prisoner upon whom the ultimate reprisal has already been wreaked? |
1162 | And when I had you decently in the bed, did you not call me to you and command, if the devil called, to tell him my lady slept? |
1162 | And while I bowed to the wife and gave greeting, I thought I saw Pilate give Miriam a significant glance, as if to say,"Is he not all I promised?" |
1162 | And you next, de Goncourt? |
1162 | And-- er-- excuse me for asking a personal question-- what are you going to do about it?" |
1162 | Another clue: when was Hideyoshi the Shogun of Japan? |
1162 | Anyway, what have you got to be afraid of?" |
1162 | As Confucius said long ago:"When we are so ignorant of life, can we know death?" |
1162 | Both experiences were equally real-- or else how did I remember them? |
1162 | But how describe emotion in words? |
1162 | But how? |
1162 | But the spirit of you, that which can not die, where will it go when your body is dead?" |
1162 | But what bearing has the Constitution on constitutional lawyers when they want to put the notorious Professor Darrell Standing out of the way? |
1162 | But what did I reek? |
1162 | But what was one to do? |
1162 | But-- and here was the problem, and Morrell had not warned me: should I also will my head to be dead? |
1162 | Canst tell me where red wine is sold? |
1162 | Corn? |
1162 | Could this particular content of his boy brain be utterly eliminated? |
1162 | D''ye get it? |
1162 | Dear cotton- woolly citizen, do you know what that means? |
1162 | Did I say young? |
1162 | Did he believe my fabled birth? |
1162 | Did you hear, Timothy?" |
1162 | Do n''t you know everybody has to bury their dead as they traipse along? |
1162 | Do n''t you see, Jake? |
1162 | Do n''t you see? |
1162 | Do n''t you see? |
1162 | Do you hear? |
1162 | Do you understand? |
1162 | For instance, how possibly, out of my present life''s experience, could I know anything about_ kimchi_? |
1162 | For was not I equally a part of God''s plan, along with this heap of rocks upjutting in the solitude of ocean? |
1162 | Gently I added:"But why all this fuss and fury for a mere man''s life? |
1162 | Get my drive? |
1162 | Had we not shared it for forty years? |
1162 | Have I not said that I was a gay- hearted, golden, bearded giant of an irresponsible boy that had never grown up? |
1162 | Have you a wish?" |
1162 | Have you ever seen a colt or a calf throw up its heels and dash madly about the pasture from sheer excess of vitality and spirits? |
1162 | Have you ever seen canvas tarpaulins or rubber blankets with brass eyelets set in along the edges? |
1162 | Have you not heard? |
1162 | He smiled that thin- lipped smile of his, and queried:"How like you the Lady Om?" |
1162 | How did these things come to me? |
1162 | I, too, bow to the gods, to all gods, for I do believe in all gods, else how came all gods to be?" |
1162 | If I did so, no matter what befell the spirit of Darrell Standing, would not the body of Darrell Standing be for ever dead? |
1162 | If a boy had had these memories, were they irretrievably lost when he had grown to manhood? |
1162 | In the end, did I say? |
1162 | Inefficient? |
1162 | Inefficient? |
1162 | Is that right?" |
1162 | It was a simple message, namely:"Standing, are you there?" |
1162 | It was farewell, I knew; for what chance had creatures so feeble as we to win alive over those surf- battered rocks to the higher rocks beyond? |
1162 | It was offensive, true, but what could poor sea- cunies do? |
1162 | Kim? |
1162 | Mind? |
1162 | My arms with which to work, my back with which to bend and lift, my hands cunning to clutch and hold-- were not these parts too in God''s plan? |
1162 | Nay, just beyond yon peach- tree? |
1162 | News? |
1162 | Now how do I know that? |
1162 | Now is that chess like our kind of chess?" |
1162 | Now what do I know? |
1162 | Now, what''s he followin''us up for through this God- forsaken country?" |
1162 | Of what use is this thing? |
1162 | Other lives? |
1162 | Other worlds? |
1162 | Pinched? |
1162 | Quick? |
1162 | Savages? |
1162 | Silly, is n''t it? |
1162 | Supposin''I am killed?" |
1162 | The Emperor swallowed and his lips twitched ere he asked:"How explain you this?" |
1162 | The poor man-- why should I deny him that solace? |
1162 | The work surely was going on, but with what results? |
1162 | Then whence? |
1162 | Then who put it into your mind?" |
1162 | Then why could not these other- world memories of the boy resurrect? |
1162 | There? |
1162 | Was anybody else going on with it, I wondered; and if so, with what success? |
1162 | Was it vacation or sickness? |
1162 | Was this island situated in the far South Pacific or the far South Atlantic? |
1162 | What cared Pilate for a man''s life?--for many men''s lives? |
1162 | What could I do? |
1162 | What could old Johannes Maartens do, with a bevy of laughing girls about him, tweaking his nose, pinching his arms, tickling his ribs till he pranced? |
1162 | What could the dolt do but grudgingly accept the amends I so freely proffered him? |
1162 | What did the philosophers whisper about so long ago?" |
1162 | What if they did unite, afterward, in averring that the break had been planned by Winwood? |
1162 | What image of a bishop, for instance, could possibly form in his mind when I rapped our code- sign for_ bishop_? |
1162 | What is it like-- your immortality?" |
1162 | What made Pie- face Jones lay off a week? |
1162 | What shall I be when I live again? |
1162 | What was Captain Jamie to do? |
1162 | What''s the man doing in the front of the other crowd you said was walking along?" |
1162 | Whence came in me, Darrell Standing, the red pulse of wrath that has wrecked my life and put me in the condemned cells? |
1162 | Where did Smith get that black eye? |
1162 | Where is the dynamite?" |
1162 | Where, now, are the crumbling rock- cliffs of old Egypt where once I laired me like a wild beast while I dreamed of the City of God? |
1162 | Who else knows corn? |
1162 | Why do they put the black cap over the head and the face of the victim ere they drop him through the trap? |
1162 | Why not me?" |
1162 | Why should I and mine not be fat from the rice in the same way? |
1162 | Why should it not? |
1162 | Why was Wilson, on the night shift for only ten days, transferred elsewhere? |
1162 | Wo n''t you believe me when I tell you I did n''t invent it?" |
1162 | Yet, if they were dreams, dreamed then, whence the substance of them? |
1162 | and what could a poor sea- cuny do? |
1162 | to make of the Messiah a false Messiah? |
41128 | Foolish girl,replied Kadambari, with a smile,"how should my adamantine heart break if it has not broken at this sight? |
41128 | Surely,I reflected,"Kama himself teaches this play of the eye, though generally after a long happy love, else whence comes this ascetic''s gaze? |
41128 | What more,said she,"can this unhappy man tell me? |
41128 | ''"''"How can he have forms?" |
41128 | ''"''Impelled by these thoughts I advanced, and bowing to the second young ascetic, his companion, I asked:"What is the name of his Reverence? |
41128 | ''"''Or what could there be harder to tell than this very thing, which is supposed to be impossible to hear or say? |
41128 | ''"''To these words he replied, with some shame:"Dear Kapiñjala, why dost thou thus misunderstand me? |
41128 | ''"''With a slight smile, he replied:"Maiden, what needs this question? |
41128 | ''"What shall I say?" |
41128 | ''Am I dear to thee?'' |
41128 | ''But the hermits, looking on me, asked him as he rested:"Whence was this little parrot brought?" |
41128 | ''How could she be here, my beloved?'' |
41128 | ''How has my lord reached this place? |
41128 | ''Sire,''replied he,''what have I not eaten? |
41128 | ''Where a man hath known his greatest happiness, there is his home, even if it be the forest.1( 642) And where else have I known such joy as here? |
41128 | ''Why,''thought he,''did not the Creator make all my senses into sight, or what noble deed has my eye done that it may look on her unchecked? |
41128 | ( 111) Why should I say more? |
41128 | ( 128) And how in thy presence could any of thy followers, or anyone else, offend? |
41128 | ( 235) What fortresses untaken, for thee to take? |
41128 | ( 291) When he had thus spoken, Pundarika said to me with a slight smile:"Ah, curious maiden, why didst thou take the trouble to ask this? |
41128 | ( 294)''"''And entering the maidens''dwelling, I began straightway to ask myself in my grief at his loss:"Am I really back, or still there? |
41128 | ( 307) I will only ask this question: Is this course you have begun taught by your gurus, or read in the holy books? |
41128 | ( 308) Who, forsooth, is this Love- god? |
41128 | ( 323) Cruel demon Love, evil and pitiless, what shameful deed hast thou brought to pass? |
41128 | ( 328) Fearest thou not the reproach of men in that thou goest, deserting me, thy handmaid, without cause? |
41128 | ( 337) Why should one so noble as thou deign to look on or speak with me, the doer of that monstrous crime, the slaughter of a Brahman?'' |
41128 | ( 349)''"When she had finished her prayers, Mahaçveta asked Taralika,''Didst thou see my dear Kadambari well? |
41128 | ( 350) How should I fulfil the desire of Love, poisonous, pitiless, unkind, who has brought my dear friend to so sad a plight? |
41128 | ( 38) But what need of further words? |
41128 | ( 430) And are all her retinue well, with Tamalika and Keyuraka?'' |
41128 | ( 478) Else where was my approach to the land of the immortals, in my vain hunt for the Kinnaras? |
41128 | ( 479) Then in the evening he asked Keyuraka,"What thinkest thou? |
41128 | ( 480) Or shall I again behold her face, with its eyes like a timid fawn''s?" |
41128 | ( 508)''Do I not know well''said he,''all that you urge for my departure? |
41128 | ( 567) For him I neglected all other ties; and now, when he is dead, how canst thou ask me to live? |
41128 | ( 592) Have ye seen him?" |
41128 | ( 94) But what need of more? |
41128 | Ah, wicked, evil, wanton Mahaçveta, how had he harmed thee? |
41128 | Alas, to what refuge shall I flee? |
41128 | Am I alone, or with my maidens? |
41128 | Am I awake or asleep? |
41128 | Am I silent, or beginning to speak? |
41128 | And if this be so, what must I do, and what must I say in his presence?" |
41128 | And is the world of mortals pleasant?'' |
41128 | And so, when I asked her,"Princess, what means this?" |
41128 | And was there any talk about me?'' |
41128 | And what has Indra gained by his lordship of the three worlds if he did not mount this back, broad as Mount Meru? |
41128 | And what union could there be between the dead and the living? |
41128 | And when the king had said this, Kumarapalita, with a slight smile, replied:''Where is the wonder? |
41128 | And whence in the world of men could there arise such harmonies of heavenly minstrelsy? |
41128 | And whereby hath thy body, though formed of the five gross elements, put on this pure whiteness? |
41128 | And wherefore in thy fresh youth, tender as a flower, has this vow been taken? |
41128 | And whither goes she?'' |
41128 | And why are thy jewelled anklets, with their murmur like teals on the lake of love, not graced with the touch of thy lotus- feet? |
41128 | And why dost thou, erst so gay, wear in vain a face whose adornment is washed away with flowing tears? |
41128 | And why is there no device painted on thy breast like the deer on the moon? |
41128 | And why is this hand, with its petal- like cluster of soft fingers, exalted into an ear- jewel, as though it were a rosy lotus? |
41128 | And why is this waist of thine bereft of the music of the girdle thou hast laid aside? |
41128 | And why, too, is she brought to suspense by these too flattering speeches?'' |
41128 | Angrily the maina began:''Princess Kadambari, why dost thou not restrain this wretched, ill- mannered, conceited bird from following me? |
41128 | Are these things pleasures or pains?" |
41128 | At my words Kapiñjala replied:"Princess, what can I say? |
41128 | At these words, in a voice choked by wrath, I exclaimed:''Wretch, how has a thunderbolt failed to strike thy head in the utterance of these thy words? |
41128 | Bewildered what to do, I cried to Taralika:"Knowest thou not? |
41128 | Bid her enter?'' |
41128 | Bright in strength, why so confused? |
41128 | Bright with youth, why rest thy weight against us? |
41128 | But again I thought,''What avails dwelling on this useless thought? |
41128 | But how could a woman, tender of nature as a young çirisha- blossom, show such boldness, especially one so young as I? |
41128 | But is it fitting in the Princess not to restrain her giddy slave? |
41128 | But thou who hast done all rightly, what duty of love hast thou left undone, that thou weepest? |
41128 | But weeping women replied:"Why ask? |
41128 | But what can I do towards Brahma, from whom there is no appeal? |
41128 | By my life I swear to thee I am put to shame by even my own heart''s knowledge of my story; how much more by another''s? |
41128 | By what discourtesy has he vexed that lotus- soft heart of thine, that none should vex? |
41128 | By whom have the raised hands of salutation, soft as young lotuses, not been placed on the head? |
41128 | By whose brows, encircled with golden bands, have the floors of his halls not been polished? |
41128 | Can it be ascertained as presented by his beauty, or by my own mind, or by love, or by youth or affection, or by any other causes? |
41128 | Citraratha, however, said:''Why, when we have palaces of our own, do we feast in the forest? |
41128 | Courteously raising my hands, I reverently replied:( 297)''Wherefore say this? |
41128 | Devoid of self- control, why run before thine elders? |
41128 | Divided between joy and grief, she paid homage to his feet, and replied:"Blessed Kapiñjala, am I so devoid of virtue that I could forget thee? |
41128 | Do I weep or hold back my tears? |
41128 | Does a fire not burn when fed on sandal- wood? |
41128 | Envious girl, why block up the window? |
41128 | Filled with amazement, Candrapida replied:''What means this, Madalekha? |
41128 | For Modesty censured her:''Light one, what hast thou begun?'' |
41128 | For by thy present grief, what is effected or what won? |
41128 | For how else could such a storehouse of learning become straightway unavailing? |
41128 | For in a heart worn by a friend''s sorrow, what hope is there of joy, what contentment, what pleasures or what mirth? |
41128 | For to one so adamantine as to have seen love in all his power, and yet to have lived through this, what can mere speaking of it matter? |
41128 | For what has this bright home of glory and penance to do with the stirrings of love that meaner men welcome? |
41128 | For what is hard for the pitiless? |
41128 | For what is thy hope of happiness in such things as are honoured by the base, but blamed by the good? |
41128 | For what will not hope achieve? |
41128 | For when was the moon ever beheld by any without moonlight, or a lotus- pool without a lotus, or a garden without creeper? |
41128 | For where is thy age? |
41128 | For who will ever, even in a dream, behold again this place haunted by the gods?'' |
41128 | For why speak of beings endowed with sense when, if it so please him, he can bring together even things without sense? |
41128 | For why? |
41128 | Friend, where is thine old love to me? |
41128 | From what tree is this garland woven? |
41128 | Has any wrong been done by me, or by any in thy service? |
41128 | Has anything been said that could hurt him by my father or Çukanasa?" |
41128 | He, however, started up hastily without replying, and with the cry,"Monster, whither goest thou with my friend?" |
41128 | How came thine attainment of the Vedas, and thine acquaintance with the Çastras, and thy skill in the fine arts? |
41128 | How can I cover this error? |
41128 | How canst thou now suddenly leave me, and go thy way like a stranger on whom my eyes had never rested? |
41128 | How didst thou endure the tedious restraint of thy gurus? |
41128 | How do I even breathe but by strong effort? |
41128 | How far did he follow us?" |
41128 | How far off is he?'' |
41128 | How is he named? |
41128 | How long didst thou see him? |
41128 | How long wert thou there? |
41128 | How many days wert thou there? |
41128 | How old art thou, and how came this bondage of a cage, and the falling into the hands of a Candala maiden, and thy coming hither?'' |
41128 | How otherwise could there be such grace in one who lives in weary penance, beauty''s destroyer?" |
41128 | How should he be here?" |
41128 | How should so great a happiness fall to our lot? |
41128 | How were you and the retinue employed? |
41128 | How wert thou not ashamed to send so cruel a message? |
41128 | I knew not what to do, and asked Taralika,"Seest thou not, Taralika, how confused is my mind? |
41128 | If caught, what is the good? |
41128 | If from a search for reason, how many things rest only on tradition, and are yet seen to be true? |
41128 | Ill- behaved girl, why thus weary thyself? |
41128 | In what occupation has the Gandharva princess spent the time? |
41128 | Insatiable, how long wilt thou look? |
41128 | Is not the submarine fire the fiercer in the water that is wo nt to quench fire? |
41128 | Is the race honoured by thy birth, lady, that of the Maruts, or Rishis, or Gandharvas, or Guhyakas, or Apsarases? |
41128 | Is this fitting for thee even to imagine, much less to see or tell? |
41128 | Is this joy or sorrow, longing or despair, misfortune or gladness, day or night? |
41128 | Is this the fruit of our meeting, that my heart, tender as a lotus filament, is now crushed? |
41128 | Is this, I pray, the conduct of noble men? |
41128 | It may be asked What is the value of''Kadambari''for European readers? |
41128 | Madalekha therefore replied:''Prince, what shall I say? |
41128 | Moreover, in one of so delicate a nature what does not tend to pain? |
41128 | Moreover, what is he laughing at as he talks to Vaiçampayana, so that the circle of space is whitened with his bright teeth? |
41128 | Nay, more, thou hast conquered our hearts; what is left for us to give thee? |
41128 | Night, showest thou no mercy? |
41128 | Now, all auspicious omens which come to us foretell the near approach of joy; and what other cause of joy can there be than this? |
41128 | Of what ascetic is he the son? |
41128 | Or by what skill, or device, or means, or support, or thought, or solace, may he yet live?'' |
41128 | Or dost thou dwell in disguise, wearing the form only of a bird, and where didst thou formerly dwell? |
41128 | Say, whither, without thee, shall I go? |
41128 | Seest thou not the pain produced in her mind by the breezes of the fans? |
41128 | Self- respect reproached her:''Gandharva Princess, how is this fitting for thee?'' |
41128 | Simplicity mocked her:''Where has thy childhood gone before its day was over?'' |
41128 | So saying, she ceased; and, with a long and passionate sigh, the king spoke thus:''"''My queen, what can be done in a matter decreed by fate? |
41128 | Steadfastness cried shame on her:''Whence comes thine unsteadiness of nature?'' |
41128 | Tell us from the very beginning the whole history of thy birth-- in what country, and how wert thou born, and by whom was thy name given? |
41128 | Tell us, therefore, what he has done, who was he, and who will he be in another birth?" |
41128 | The king, whose curiosity was aroused, looked at the chiefs around him, and with the words''Why not? |
41128 | The likeness of spirit between these two leads to the question, Had Bana, like Spenser, any purpose, ethical or political, underlying his story? |
41128 | Then I rebuked that string of pearls, saying:"Ah, wicked one, couldst not even thou have preserved his life till my coming?" |
41128 | Then her betel- nut bearer, Makarika, who was always near her, said to the king:''My lord, how could any fault, however slight, be committed by thee? |
41128 | Then she tenderly touched Kadambari, saying"Be comforted, my mother,[ 350] for without thee, who could have preserved the body of my son Candrapida? |
41128 | Then the latter at last spoke falteringly:"What can one so wretched tell thee? |
41128 | Thou art lord of our life; what can we offer thee? |
41128 | Thou art one with my own heart, and I ask thee to tell me what I should now do? |
41128 | Thou by thy sight hast made our life worth having; how can we reward thy coming? |
41128 | Thou hast already bestowed the great favour of thy presence; what return could we make? |
41128 | Thou who feignest coyness, what mean thy crafty glances? |
41128 | Thou whose eyes art filled with love, seest thou not thy friends? |
41128 | Thou, erst so soft of speech, from whom hast thou learnt to speak unkindness and utter reproach? |
41128 | Thus speaking, he retired, and the king asked Vaiçampayana:''Hast thou in the interval eaten food sufficient and to thy taste?'' |
41128 | To this speech I replied:"Mad girl, what is love to me? |
41128 | To whom but thee should I listen? |
41128 | To whom can I tell this folly of my undisciplined senses,( 378) and where shall I go, consumed by Kama, the five- arrowed god? |
41128 | To whom else can I complain, or tell my humiliation, or give a share in my woe? |
41128 | Was it a special boon given thee? |
41128 | What ails me that I can not restrain myself? |
41128 | What bright deed of merit was done by Earth that she has won thee as lord? |
41128 | What can I do? |
41128 | What can she do now? |
41128 | What caused thy remembrance of a former birth? |
41128 | What continents unappropriated, for thee to appropriate? |
41128 | What did he say to thee? |
41128 | What did he say, and what didst thou reply? |
41128 | What does the moon want with Pundarika? |
41128 | What else can be done? |
41128 | What favour did the princess show thee? |
41128 | What has fate begun? |
41128 | What has happened? |
41128 | What is Ujjayini like, and how far off is it? |
41128 | What is her name? |
41128 | What is the land of Bharata? |
41128 | What is this that has befallen me? |
41128 | What kings have not been humbled? |
41128 | What matters it whether I catch the pair of Kinnaras or not? |
41128 | What need of words? |
41128 | What offence has been committed? |
41128 | What other course is there? |
41128 | What refuge shall I seek? |
41128 | What regions unsubdued, for thee to subdue? |
41128 | What remedy is there? |
41128 | What talk was there, and what conversation arose? |
41128 | What talk was there? |
41128 | What to me were home, mother, father, kinsfolk, followers? |
41128 | What treasures ungained, for thee to gain? |
41128 | What was I to do? |
41128 | What were Mahaçveta and Madalekha doing? |
41128 | What will my father and mother and the Gandharvas say when they hear this tale? |
41128 | What, indeed, could I say? |
41128 | What, then, shall I do? |
41128 | Whence comes this exceeding skill that tells the heart''s longing wordlessly by a glance alone?" |
41128 | Whence comes this hitherto unknown assault of the senses, which so transforms thee? |
41128 | Whence comes this thy great hardness? |
41128 | Whence could one so hard- hearted feel grief? |
41128 | Whence have the parts of this exceeding beauty been gathered? |
41128 | Where is his former penance, and where his present state? |
41128 | Where is thine old firmness? |
41128 | Where that smiling welcome that never failed me?" |
41128 | Where thy calm of mind, thine inherited holiness, thy carelessness of earthly things? |
41128 | Where thy conquest of the senses? |
41128 | Where thy self- control? |
41128 | Wherefore hast thou not returned? |
41128 | Whither goest thou, pitilessly leaving me alone and protectorless? |
41128 | Who am I? |
41128 | Who but thee could give advice at this time, or could attempt to restrain my wandering? |
41128 | Who have not accepted his staff of office? |
41128 | Who have not drunk in with the crocodiles of their crests, the radiance of his feet, like pure streams? |
41128 | Who have not raised the cry of"Hail!"? |
41128 | Who have not waved his cowries? |
41128 | Who in his senses would, even if happy, make up his mind to undertake even a slight matter that would end in pain? |
41128 | Who is there in this world who is not changed by youth? |
41128 | Who is there that fears him not? |
41128 | Who is there that fears not the wicked, pitiless in causeless enmity; in whose mouth calumny hard to bear is always ready as the poison of a serpent? |
41128 | Who most remembers us, and whose affection is greatest?'' |
41128 | Who was he in a former birth, and how was he born in the form of a bird? |
41128 | Who were thy father and mother? |
41128 | Who will speak to her or look at her again, and who will mention her name?'' |
41128 | Whom shall I implore? |
41128 | Whose crest- jewels have not scraped his footstool? |
41128 | Whose daughter is she? |
41128 | Why dost thou, like a man of low caste, fail to restrain the turmoil of thy soul? |
41128 | Why has so long a time passed since we have seen thee? |
41128 | Why have I been so mad as to leave my followers behind and come so far? |
41128 | Why should I tell thee of those who have themselves chosen their lords? |
41128 | Why showest thou no pity? |
41128 | Why speakest thou thus? |
41128 | Why tell thy parents? |
41128 | Why then doubt concerning this? |
41128 | Why this needless talk of death as a necessary condition? |
41128 | Why toilest thou thus, like perverse fate, in so unmeet an employment, in that thou wastest in stern penance a body tender as a garland? |
41128 | Why wert thou not born as a parrot? |
41128 | Why, slender one, art thou unadorned? |
41128 | Why, then, this ceremony?'' |
41128 | Why, then,''thought he again,''should I thus weary my mind in vain? |
41128 | Will Kadambari support life till we arrive? |
41128 | With mingled scorn and pity he replied:''Wilt thou not even now restrain thine old impatience? |
41128 | With whom shall I wander, to whom speak, with whom hold converse? |
41128 | Yet if I could not be united to those I loved in past lives why should I yet live? |
41128 | Yet think not, my son, that I will live without thee, for how could I thus even face thy father? |
41128 | [ 283] Thou wilt not therefore surely place on the fire of grief that life so precious and so hardly preserved?'' |
41128 | [ 334] In his utter love madness, he says:''Tell me, Patralekha, how a madman can be rejected?'' |
41128 | [ 97] Does this refer to the reflection of the sky in its clear water? |
41128 | and my mother and all the zenana?'' |
41128 | and then, waiting a short time, she began afresh:''How is King Tarapida, how Queen Vilasavati, how the noble Çukanasa? |
41128 | and where thy superhuman power and thy capacity of reaching boundless knowledge? |
41128 | and why has not the stream of lac fallen on thy feet like early sunlight on rosy lotus- buds? |
41128 | and why is he coming hither?'' |
41128 | and why is that slender neck of thine, fair- limbed queen, not adorned with a rope of pearls as the crescent on Çiva''s brow by the heavenly stream? |
41128 | and will she do as I said?'' |
41128 | how has he become so close a friend to Mahaçveta? |
41128 | how much less one like me, whose heart is struck down by deep grief? |
41128 | if missed, what is the harm? |
41128 | or how bring an ill- omened mourning to his departure to heaven? |
41128 | or how weep at the joyous moment when, like the dust of his feet, I may follow him? |
41128 | or who else in the world is a friend like thee? |
46343 | ''Ah, I was in command of archers, was I?'' 46343 ''And for what ceremony had I come from the Palais de Justice with my hundred and twenty archers?'' |
46343 | ''And has nothing uncommon happened? 46343 ''And now what are they doing, Cartouche?'' |
46343 | ''And now,''said I, hiding my mortification,''you''ve told me what you think of my character: what do you think of my handwriting?'' 46343 ''And the soil of this Place de l''Hôtel- de- Ville? |
46343 | ''And when did this happen?'' 46343 ''And why do you shrink from these places and from this house in Vielle- du- Temple Street?'' |
46343 | ''And why not?'' 46343 ''Are there any spots in Paris that you have n''t been able to cross?'' |
46343 | ''Because of the paving- stones?'' 46343 ''But Cartouche was silent: why are you yelling?'' |
46343 | ''But why do n''t you arrest me? 46343 ''But why without taking our bearings?'' |
46343 | ''Corpses?'' 46343 ''Do n''t you know that this was the Place de Grève?'' |
46343 | ''Do you remember the night you were on duty at the Palais- Royal and stole the Regent''s silver- gilt candlesticks?'' |
46343 | ''Do you think I''m colour- blind?'' 46343 ''Have you often crossed it?'' |
46343 | ''How long do you think you could be hungry?'' 46343 ''Is it far from here?'' |
46343 | ''Is that so?'' 46343 ''Is that you,_ Simon the Auvergnat_?'' |
46343 | ''Really? 46343 ''Really? |
46343 | ''Was I very young?'' 46343 ''Well, you wo n''t be angry, if I''m frank with you?'' |
46343 | ''What is it he''s done?'' 46343 ''What on earth is that?'' |
46343 | ''What things?'' 46343 ''What would you do if you were?'' |
46343 | ''What''s the matter now, Cartouche?'' 46343 ''What? |
46343 | ''Where are you going?'' 46343 ''Who told you that piece of idiocy?'' |
46343 | ''You advise me to?'' 46343 ''You? |
46343 | A good-- what? |
46343 | Accomplished? 46343 Ah, what is it?" |
46343 | Am I really very sorry? 46343 And how long is it before we come back into another body?" |
46343 | And next? |
46343 | And then? |
46343 | And what am I to tell him? |
46343 | And what are we going to do with them? |
46343 | And what did he say to that? |
46343 | And what else is there in the pockets of conjurors? |
46343 | And what has happened? |
46343 | And what''s that-- the base of your column? |
46343 | And where is it to be found? |
46343 | And you''re not afraid of the eyes of a dead calf which look at you? |
46343 | Are the four ladies here? |
46343 | Are you quite sure it was in its place last night? |
46343 | Are you sure? |
46343 | But can we really expect the soil in which the treasures were buried to have remained undisturbed all these years-- over two hundred? |
46343 | But how on earth did Nadar take my photograph? |
46343 | But is this really an eighteenth- century paper? 46343 But what are these things you have dreamt of but never seen?" |
46343 | Ca n''t you see that Signor Petito is in a hurry? 46343 Could you tell me the exact age of this document?" |
46343 | Did n''t you try to stop him? |
46343 | Do I ever dream? 46343 Do n''t you perceive the thick bars across the windows?" |
46343 | Do they express pity for him in the books? |
46343 | Do we look like Germans? |
46343 | Do you know how much it is worth, Signor Petito, the_ Child''s_ head? 46343 Have n''t you got beyond that?" |
46343 | Have you ever heard anyone speak of someone called the_ Child_, Adolphe? |
46343 | He was going to answer when his wife interfered and said:''What are you talking about, Theophrastus? 46343 How are you, Ambrose?" |
46343 | How are you, Theophrastus? 46343 How are you?" |
46343 | How could I have learnt to write unless I knew how to read? 46343 How did that come about?" |
46343 | How did_ my portrait_ get into this house? |
46343 | I notice that whenever you say,''Is that clear?'' 46343 I told Adolphe all this; and he said,''Are there any other places from which you shrink?'' |
46343 | I was dismayed; but in a flash of genius I cried:''What is evil? |
46343 | If one showed you a piece of paper you could tell the age of it? |
46343 | In what train? |
46343 | Indeed? 46343 Is n''t it?" |
46343 | M. Longuet appeared to reflect a little; then he said:''Then, if we continued to live in the Catacombs, we should end by no longer having eyes?'' 46343 Never?" |
46343 | Now why, I wonder, did I say''_ You remember_''? 46343 Of many brigands?" |
46343 | Plainly M. de la Nox did not expect that yell, for he said in a tone of surprise,''Why did you yell like that, Cartouche?'' 46343 So you''re going to the Porkers too?" |
46343 | Sometimes? 46343 The violet cat is on the tea- table?" |
46343 | Then Theophrastus said,''What are you waiting for?'' 46343 Then he returned to his fixed idea:"''And in the course of our peregrinations is there any chance of our coming across a way out? |
46343 | There was a pause as M. de la Nox let Cartouche continue on his painful way; then he said:''And where are you now, Cartouche?'' 46343 Three thousand? |
46343 | To the Porkers? |
46343 | We had come just to the end of Paris Street-- you know the passage we call Paris Street at the Conciergerie? |
46343 | Well, what about them? |
46343 | What Black Feather? 46343 What am I waiting for? |
46343 | What are you doing, Marceline? |
46343 | What did he do then? |
46343 | What do you mean? |
46343 | What do you think of that? |
46343 | What do you want me to do with them? |
46343 | What else? |
46343 | What else? |
46343 | What had we been doing? 46343 What is it? |
46343 | What is it? |
46343 | What misfortune? |
46343 | What on earth''s that? |
46343 | What would the Signora Petito think, if you came home without your ears? |
46343 | What? |
46343 | Where am I? |
46343 | Where are you dragging me to? |
46343 | Where is it? |
46343 | Who was I? 46343 Who will ever be able to tell the age of that soil; who will ever be able to tell you the age of those stones? |
46343 | Will not some of the noble rich buy a million copies and see that they are given to those who need them? |
46343 | You agree that_ Cartouche_ is your real name and not a nickname? |
46343 | You are sure of it? |
46343 | You do n''t understand? 46343 You''re really called all that?" |
46343 | Your information is correct? |
46343 | Your portrait? |
46343 | _ In the train which is going to pass under your nose._"What is the train which is going to pass under my nose? |
46343 | _ Who could be surer than I?_said Theophrastus calmly. |
46343 | ''And what is your conception of my character, Adolphe?'' |
46343 | ''Are you quite ignorant of the experimental method? |
46343 | ''Do you want to cross the Place de l''Hôtel- de- Ville?'' |
46343 | ''How do they see?'' |
46343 | ''Is there really a chance that in the course of our peregrinations we shall come across subterranean piles?'' |
46343 | ''What is Signor Petito up to at Saint- Germain? |
46343 | ''Why should we not believe that in quitting the body which it animates at the moment, it must animate several others in succession?'' |
46343 | ''You died in 1721 at the Gallows of Montfaucon? |
46343 | A glass of ratafia? |
46343 | Adolphe said nothing; and when he was baiting his hook, Theophrastus said, with a touch of impatience in his tone,"Well?" |
46343 | After a while it grew serene again; and M. de la Nox said:"''And what are you doing now, Cartouche?'' |
46343 | After all, does it matter what you have seen,_ since you are dead_? |
46343 | Am I frightening you? |
46343 | Am I to go back to my mother, or are you going to do it?" |
46343 | And if I did n''t know how to write, how could I have written the document I hid in the cellars of the Conciergerie?" |
46343 | And what does it remember if not that it has lived before, and that it has lived in another body? |
46343 | And what had become of the beginning of the train, that is to say, of the engine, the tender, the dining- car, and the three corridor carriages? |
46343 | And you do n''t know what that_ rt_ stands for? |
46343 | Are there many ways out of the Catacombs?'' |
46343 | Are they fishes?'' |
46343 | Are you going to teach me about Straw Alley? |
46343 | Are you going to teach the guide his business when you''ve never been to the Conciergerie before in your life?'' |
46343 | Are you sure he has n''t gone out?" |
46343 | Are you sure? |
46343 | Below it were these words:"Of what use are brands, and torches, and spectacles To him who shuts his eyes that he may not see?" |
46343 | Besides, was I sure? |
46343 | Big and well made?" |
46343 | But at your trial--""Did I have a trial?" |
46343 | But how comes it that this document, which is dated 1721, is, in every part of it which is visible, in your handwriting?" |
46343 | But how do you catch them?'' |
46343 | But how many more to kill?... |
46343 | But how on earth does it affect this business which is worrying us?" |
46343 | But how the deuce am I to do it? |
46343 | But is it my fault?... |
46343 | But what little railway station? |
46343 | But what of that? |
46343 | But where am I?... |
46343 | But why have you gone into the corner? |
46343 | But, as a matter of fact, you were, according to the poet Granval, a man who knew you well and chanted your glory--""My what?" |
46343 | CHAPTER II THE SCRAP OF PAPER What did happen? |
46343 | Ca n''t these silly fools see that the names are on the tip of my tongue, and wo n''t come off it? |
46343 | Ca n''t they see that if I do n''t denounce them, it''s because I ca n''t move the tip of my tongue? |
46343 | Consequently your express has vanished-- melted-- flown away? |
46343 | Consequently, there''s no longer any express? |
46343 | Could I have done otherwise? |
46343 | Did he really say''_ Zounds_''?" |
46343 | Did that scrap of paper_ really_ exist? |
46343 | Did you not wish to see your wife happy? |
46343 | Do you notice anything remarkable about it?" |
46343 | Do you understand everything, except that you have n''t seen the train pass K? |
46343 | Do you understand?" |
46343 | Does he in the old eighteenth- century fashion police Bagdad, or does he build up a rubber stamp business in Chicago? |
46343 | Does the unhappy Theophrastus, luckless exile from the Paris he loves, wander through the far East or the far West? |
46343 | Had I not, before falling into this hole, bought half a dozen electric lamps of the latest pattern? |
46343 | Have I made this first proof clear?" |
46343 | Have you experienced no odd feelings? |
46343 | Have you remembered nothing?'' |
46343 | He had ceased to ask,"Why am I in this house in Huchette Street?" |
46343 | He sat down with an air of supreme content, and said proudly:"_ What do you think of that, Marie- Antoinette?_""Why do you call me Marie- Antoinette?" |
46343 | He sat down with an air of supreme content, and said proudly:"_ What do you think of that, Marie- Antoinette?_""Why do you call me Marie- Antoinette?" |
46343 | He says in a low voice, so low that she does not even hear him,"Do you hear?" |
46343 | He stood upright again with an air of relief and said:"''What are you doing now, Cartouche?'' |
46343 | Here?--what the deuce was here anyway except water? |
46343 | His next question was:"''And where are you now, Cartouche?'' |
46343 | Houdry, the butcher''s wife, came to the back door and said to the assistant:"What''s your master doing this morning? |
46343 | How can he better console her than by replacing you? |
46343 | How did he find his way? |
46343 | How did he re- enter Paris? |
46343 | How do you suppose I could have slept on straw in Straw Alley when it was the first time I had ever been in the Conciergerie? |
46343 | How large are they?'' |
46343 | How many more to kill to be sure of the silence of all?... |
46343 | However, I''ll do as you want; but just tell me first if Cartouche was as redoubtable as they say: was he a brigand chief?" |
46343 | I ca n''t sleep two nights running in the same place... Where are the days when I had all Paris on my side? |
46343 | I said:"''Here are two passages, which are you going to take?'' |
46343 | I was a fine man, was n''t I? |
46343 | I was mounted on a Spanish horse?'' |
46343 | I-- I was at K; and I am sure that it did not pass at K... consequently...''"''Consequently?... |
46343 | Incalculable quantities?... |
46343 | Incalculable?... |
46343 | Indeed?" |
46343 | Is it my fault that Cartouche did n''t split?'' |
46343 | Is it my habit to keep things which do n''t belong to me? |
46343 | Is it the ring of Ravaillac? |
46343 | Is it the telephone, or the railway, or the motorcars, or the Eiffel Tower?" |
46343 | Is n''t it red?'' |
46343 | Is n''t the date false? |
46343 | Is that clear to you?" |
46343 | Is that clear?" |
46343 | Is that so?" |
46343 | It was all quite clear; had he not before slipping out of the study moved the cat? |
46343 | It''s Straw Alley!_''""He said that? |
46343 | It''s my belief, on the contrary, that I was a man of quality-- what do you say to a favourite of the Regent?'' |
46343 | Longuet?" |
46343 | Longuet?" |
46343 | Longuet?'' |
46343 | Longuet?'' |
46343 | Longuet?'' |
46343 | Mifroid?'' |
46343 | No?... |
46343 | Of what is he dreaming, unhappy wretch, that again and again he shakes his luckless head? |
46343 | On the bank of what river did M. Longuet lay his clothes? |
46343 | On the way Theophrastus said:"Tell me, Adolphe: what was I like? |
46343 | One day you went with some of your school- fellows to Saint- Laurent fair--""Look here, Adolphe: could n''t you put it differently? |
46343 | One eye?'' |
46343 | Or Belle- Hélène who keeps the Harp tavern?" |
46343 | Or even Blanche, the Bustler? |
46343 | Presently he nodded his head sagely and said:"Do you ever dream, Theophrastus?" |
46343 | Pretty- Milkmaid, of Pussycat? |
46343 | Savard was smoking his pipe on his door- step; and Duchâtelet said to him,"Is there anyone upstairs?" |
46343 | Shut up in the Châtelet... And his son?... |
46343 | Station B:"What can have happened? |
46343 | Suppose I lit the light?" |
46343 | Suppose I went and opened the door on to the landing, and called the porter?" |
46343 | Taburet, are n''t I right? |
46343 | That means? |
46343 | That means? |
46343 | The Other, then, was a man of energy?'' |
46343 | The day of my wedding with Marie- Antoinette? |
46343 | The guide set the party in motion; then he said:"You are French?" |
46343 | Then he whispered:"''Where are you now, Cartouche?'' |
46343 | Theophrastus paused in his reading and said,"What on earth do they mean by their new Cartouche? |
46343 | Theophrastus read:"Is Cartouche, then, not dead? |
46343 | Theophrastus turned on him with a savage air, and cried,"What the deuce has it got to do with you?" |
46343 | Theophrastus, who took a pride in showing himself well- informed, said to the guide:"Was n''t it here that the Girondins had their last meal? |
46343 | Was it from fear? |
46343 | Was it not a fact that already things of which in my present existence I was ignorant, were rising from my past? |
46343 | Was it that he had sunk into a deeper sleep? |
46343 | Was it that the Theophrastus of to- day had any connection with the Theophrastus of twenty years ago? |
46343 | Well then, in clipping his ears, did I not demonstrate that there was no need to kill him? |
46343 | What are we to do? |
46343 | What can it mean?" |
46343 | What did certain phrases I had uttered at the Conciergerie mean? |
46343 | What do my fingers want? |
46343 | What do you mean?" |
46343 | What good wind blows you here?" |
46343 | What has become of my pocket- book?" |
46343 | What have you found out?" |
46343 | What have you seen?... |
46343 | What is good? |
46343 | What is that that is thrusting, thrusting forth? |
46343 | What is the origin of the old Frankish palace? |
46343 | What is the thought of my fingers? |
46343 | What is this theory of transformation except that living beings_ transform themselves into one another_? |
46343 | What is three quarters of a mile of bones out of three hundred and ten miles of Catacombs?'' |
46343 | What should he do? |
46343 | What the deuce is that infernal violet cat up to?" |
46343 | What was then my name? |
46343 | What were those crimson flames below, in whose glow he walked, doing? |
46343 | What will you have to drink? |
46343 | What would_ you_ do? |
46343 | What''s he doing in your house, by the way, that skeleton, instead of resting quietly on Saint- Chaumont Hill? |
46343 | When I asked what were you waiting for, I meant what are you waiting for to arrest me?'' |
46343 | When he began to deal with the calf''s ears, Theophrastus cried, with angelic delight:"The ears? |
46343 | When they were under the trees, among the throng of careless strollers, Adolphe said:"You''ve heard of the water- finders?" |
46343 | Whence does this man, or rather this shadow of a man, this sad shadow of a man, with his hands in his pockets, come? |
46343 | Where are you going to? |
46343 | Where are you now, Cartouche?'' |
46343 | Where are you now, Cartouche?'' |
46343 | Where did he go? |
46343 | Where did this end of a train come from? |
46343 | Where have I seen it?'' |
46343 | Where in Heaven''s name are we going now? |
46343 | Where is Uncle Tanton now? |
46343 | Which First of April? |
46343 | Who can compare with her? |
46343 | Who could have believed that pain would be so_ effective_ at the end of two hundred years?'' |
46343 | Who shall ever re- compose it? |
46343 | Who shall ever repeat it? |
46343 | Who wants Cartouche?''... |
46343 | Who was Simon the Auvergnat, whose name had risen twice to my burning lips? |
46343 | Who will dare to say that they are not retrospective visions of events which have taken place before our present existence?" |
46343 | Whom does he perceive on the threshold of a cottage at the entrance to the village?... |
46343 | Why did n''t Cartouche move the tip of his tongue? |
46343 | Why do n''t the idiots take them off it? |
46343 | Why do you tear the white locks from your brow?... |
46343 | Why should he have spoken? |
46343 | Why that deep groan? |
46343 | Why then, my dear Signor Petito, are you making that intolerable face? |
46343 | Why? |
46343 | Would it not be stupid indeed to devote all my faculties to reviving the Theophrastus of twenty years ago? |
46343 | You are still awake, are you-- as late as this?" |
46343 | You died at the Gallows of Montfaucon?'' |
46343 | You know that Marie Antoinette went to her death down that passage?" |
46343 | You laugh, M. Houdry? |
46343 | You talk of Reason;_ but what use is Reason in a brain which does not know by which end to take hold of it_? |
46343 | You understand? |
46343 | _ Do you understand now? |
46343 | _ Have you got the carving- knife?_""I ca n''t find the fork,"replied the trembling voice of Marceline. |
46343 | _ What does that portmanteau contain?_ Theophrastus, his face working with intense emotion, crosses the room to his old friend. |
46343 | and what was he saying to you?" |
46343 | at La Belle Hélène''s, who,_ you remember_, kept the Heart tavern? |
46343 | what have you seen in the drawing- room?... |
46343 | what is that it lights up?... |
5079 | A friend of yours, Denzil? |
5079 | A full- length portrait? |
5079 | A trustworthy messenger, I hope? 5079 Am I sickening for a fever before I have been forty- eight hours in Cairo? |
5079 | An appointment with Gervase? |
5079 | And Frenchmen can be found perhaps who are like Araxes in the number of their loves and infidelities? |
5079 | And after death? |
5079 | And are you going? |
5079 | And as man only? |
5079 | And have you found out anything about her? |
5079 | And how many times with the Princess Ziska? |
5079 | And is he not? |
5079 | And is the English Press immaculate? |
5079 | And what do you think? |
5079 | And what is that? |
5079 | And what is to be done? |
5079 | And what of an incarnate devil? |
5079 | And you think you could tame me? |
5079 | And you? |
5079 | Are you afraid? |
5079 | Are you going mad, Gervase? |
5079 | Are you going to sketch some picturesque corner of the city? |
5079 | Are you not well, Monsieur Gervase? |
5079 | Are you sure of that? |
5079 | At what hour? |
5079 | Bother''God save the Queen,''exclaimed Courtney impatiently.--"Look here, you do n''t mean it seriously, do you?" |
5079 | But why should I paint her so? |
5079 | But-- do you know the Princess Ziska? |
5079 | Can I speak to you a moment? |
5079 | Can it be possible that I love this woman? |
5079 | Can you not understand? 5079 Come, come, what is all this excitement for?" |
5079 | Consider, my dear Lady Lyle, is there not something very chaste and beautiful in the aspect of an old maid? |
5079 | Death, you consider, finishes all? 5079 Did you ever try to conjure with that name?" |
5079 | Do I? 5079 Do I?" |
5079 | Do n''t you know your theories are quite out of date? 5079 Do n''t you think she''s made like other women?" |
5079 | Do you intend to humor them in this instance? |
5079 | Do you know where her house is? |
5079 | Do you not realize what folly you are talking? 5079 Do you take me for a child, or a fool?" |
5079 | Do you think I shall let Gervase escape me? 5079 Enjoying-- er-- er-- a what?--a moonlight stroll? |
5079 | Et moi? |
5079 | Forced upon me? |
5079 | Ghosts? |
5079 | Gone altogether? |
5079 | Had you ever any virtues? |
5079 | Hate you? 5079 Have n''t you? |
5079 | How about God? |
5079 | How can a man and woman dead five thousand years ago be of any interest to you? |
5079 | How can you account for his strangeness-- his roughness-- even to me? |
5079 | How do we know it exists? 5079 How do you argue it? |
5079 | How, then, does body exist without soul? |
5079 | How? |
5079 | I know nothing myself; how can I? 5079 I suppose I may not inquire how you propose to obtain this satisfaction?" |
5079 | I thought you might possibly like to go a little further up the Nile? |
5079 | I wonder what that Nubian has to do with her? |
5079 | I? 5079 I? |
5079 | If she were your wife, would you care for her to dance before people? |
5079 | In order to play the lover of Charmazel? |
5079 | Is Mr. Gervase in his room? |
5079 | Is he better to- day? |
5079 | Is it not? |
5079 | Is it she who sings that song about the lotus- lily? |
5079 | Is n''t that a charming little party over there? |
5079 | Is she not as ripe for love and fit for marriage as any other of her sex? |
5079 | Is she? |
5079 | Is that a fact? |
5079 | La Princesse, ou est elle? |
5079 | Lady Fulkeward admires the Princess very much, I believe? |
5079 | Mademoiselle Helen you consider very beautiful? |
5079 | Maintenant? |
5079 | Matter? 5079 My''fancy''for her? |
5079 | No; are you? |
5079 | No? 5079 Not human?" |
5079 | Not in the very least? 5079 Nothing beyond? |
5079 | Nothing... the heat... the air... a trifle, I assure you? 5079 Now, how did you find that out?" |
5079 | Now,he whispered,"shall I speak or be silent?" |
5079 | Of life? 5079 Of what else should I think, mon ami?" |
5079 | Of what? 5079 Of whom else should I speak?" |
5079 | Oh, it is merely temperament? 5079 Oh, then you are not one of her lovers?" |
5079 | Oh, what is it? |
5079 | Oh, you did shake hands? |
5079 | Oh, you have a soul? |
5079 | Oh, you think she IS Egyptian then? |
5079 | Or shall I make love to you? |
5079 | Ou donc? |
5079 | Quite psychological, is it not, Doctor? 5079 Shall I begin?" |
5079 | Shall I paint your picture? |
5079 | She does? 5079 She told you that, did she?" |
5079 | She told you that? |
5079 | Should n''t you? 5079 Something troubles you, Monsieur Gervase?" |
5079 | Tell me,he said,"have you any recollection of ever having met the Princess Ziska before?" |
5079 | That is your opinion? 5079 The Princess Ziska,"he echoed,--"Yes? |
5079 | The Princess is leaving Cairo? |
5079 | The bas- relief I told you of is just above us,said the Princess then, addressing herself to the Doctor;"would you like to examine it? |
5079 | The portraits on this old carving have perhaps affected you unpleasantly? 5079 Then do you call the Princess an old maid?" |
5079 | Then she is really a woman of culture and intelligence? |
5079 | Then you admit yourself to be cruel and unprincipled? |
5079 | Then you did think it a little unbecoming? |
5079 | Then you know the lines--''There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy?'' 5079 Then you will have satisfied yourself?" |
5079 | Then your''scientific ghosts''are positive realities? |
5079 | Then? 5079 There are certain subjects connected with psychic phenomena on which it is best to be silent; besides, what interest can such things have for you? |
5079 | There is no Prince Ziska then? |
5079 | Torture them how, Denzil? |
5079 | Was he a very distinguished personage? |
5079 | Well,said the savant presently, after a pause:"Now you have got him, what are you going to do with him?" |
5079 | Well? |
5079 | What IS the Light Eternal? |
5079 | What ails me? 5079 What are they, my dear madam, what are they?" |
5079 | What are you saying about Denzil? |
5079 | What cure shall ever be found for love- weariness? 5079 What did I say? |
5079 | What do you mean? 5079 What do you mean? |
5079 | What do you mean? |
5079 | What do you mean? |
5079 | What do you mean? |
5079 | What do you say, Denzil? |
5079 | What do you think of it, eh, Denzil? |
5079 | What has Araxes to do with you? |
5079 | What has she been doing with herself? |
5079 | What horrible thing? |
5079 | What interest has Rameses? |
5079 | What is it? |
5079 | What is it? |
5079 | What is wrong with me? |
5079 | What of ambition? |
5079 | What of the inspiration that lifts a man beyond himself and his material needs, and teaches him to strive after the Highest? |
5079 | What old laws? |
5079 | What researches are you engaged upon now? |
5079 | What she''s made of? |
5079 | What sort of an appointment? |
5079 | What''s the matter with them? |
5079 | What''s the matter with you, Denzil? |
5079 | When you know I do not believe in the soul, why do you talk to me about it? 5079 Where did you paint the Princess''s picture?" |
5079 | Who is that? |
5079 | Who is this that has beautiful eyes? |
5079 | Who would n''t admire her? 5079 Whom did you say? |
5079 | Whom he afterwards murdered, you say? |
5079 | Why not? 5079 Why not?" |
5079 | Why not? |
5079 | Why should you entertain these ideas of vengeance against Gervase? 5079 Why, Denzil, is it you? |
5079 | Why, are n''t you going to stay here a few days? |
5079 | Why? 5079 Why?" |
5079 | Will you? 5079 Wo n''t you smoke, Denzil?" |
5079 | Would you really care to hear it? |
5079 | Yes, is it not curious? |
5079 | Yet you do hate me? |
5079 | You are enjoying a moonlight stroll, Doctor? |
5079 | You are going to paint her picture? |
5079 | You are impenitent? |
5079 | You are speaking of the Princess Ziska? |
5079 | You believe in Death? |
5079 | You did? |
5079 | You do? |
5079 | You have a moment to spare me? |
5079 | You have left all the dear English people well at the Gezireh Palace? 5079 You have never been inside?" |
5079 | You have seen enough of it, I suppose? |
5079 | You hear? |
5079 | You intend to be one of the party there then? |
5079 | You mean to say that you can not paint the Princess''s picture? |
5079 | You quite believe that, Monsieur Gervase? 5079 You remember,"he went on,"our pleasant times in Scotland? |
5079 | You seem to know a great deal about her,observed Dr. Dean indulgently,"and why should she not go herself? |
5079 | You shall-- what? |
5079 | You think so? 5079 You truly think that?" |
5079 | You understand? |
5079 | You view Him in that light? |
5079 | You will not interfere? 5079 You will not?" |
5079 | Your intentions are pitiless? |
5079 | ''Do you consider the Princess a proper woman?'' |
5079 | ... What has the name to do with me? |
5079 | ... the Princess Ziska? |
5079 | ...""Could it not?" |
5079 | ...""Why should he not?" |
5079 | Ah!--how did he NOT know her? |
5079 | Aloud he said--"Why are you not dancing, Miss Muriel?" |
5079 | Am I the only one who perceives the remarkable similarity of contour and expression?" |
5079 | And I echo your words most feelingly,--What evil fate sent me to Cairo? |
5079 | And can you wonder then that I feel as if I could kill you?" |
5079 | And has He ever interfered? |
5079 | And how have you succeeded with that charming mysterious person, the Princess Ziska?" |
5079 | And this madness is mildly described as''love?''" |
5079 | And whether it is best to be a solitary''maiden- rose''or a Princess Ziska, who shall say? |
5079 | And who shall blame them? |
5079 | And why did you place them on guard? |
5079 | And why? |
5079 | And yet, why not? |
5079 | And you will break your sister''s heart as well; perhaps you have n''t thought of that?" |
5079 | And you?" |
5079 | Are you a clergyman?" |
5079 | Are you better?" |
5079 | Are you determined to run away?" |
5079 | Are you positive on this point?" |
5079 | Are you sure? |
5079 | But a woman grown old, who has outlived all passion and is a mere bundle of fat, or a mummy of skin and bone,--what poetry does her existence suggest? |
5079 | But do you know what symbol I, as an artist, would employ were I asked to give my idea of Love on my canvas?" |
5079 | But if I did, what would that have to do with this?" |
5079 | But of course, you will try again; the Princess will surely give you another sitting?" |
5079 | But you know my intention?" |
5079 | But you,--Armand Gervase,--educated, civilized, intellectual, and totally unlike the barbaric Araxes, could not do that, could you? |
5079 | But, unless you deal the murderer''s blow, the fever will go on increasing till it reaches its extremest height, and then...""And then?" |
5079 | By the way, have you been asked to her great party next week?" |
5079 | Death? |
5079 | Did you tell her that?" |
5079 | Do n''t look so tragic, my good Denzil,--what ails you now?" |
5079 | Do n''t you find it so, Doctor?" |
5079 | Do not men sometimes love vile women?" |
5079 | Do you actually suppose I have a''passion''for you?" |
5079 | Do you believe in ghosts?" |
5079 | Do you like such pretty follies? |
5079 | Do you not understand? |
5079 | Do you notice how thoroughly Egyptian the features are? |
5079 | Do you really think so? |
5079 | Do you think if all the elements were to combine in a war against me, they should cheat me out of this woman or rob me of her? |
5079 | Do you think that because a man is strong and famous, he has a right to the love of woman?--a charter to destroy her as he pleases? |
5079 | Does He interfere when the murderer''s knife descends upon the victim? |
5079 | Does anyone know who she is? |
5079 | Et dans ton ame alarmee, Ne sens- tu pas quelque remord? |
5079 | First of all, let me ask you, do you believe in the existence of Matter?" |
5079 | Flesh and blood, or cast- iron? |
5079 | Has he spoken to you to- night?" |
5079 | Have I seen her by chance thus in her days of poverty, and does her image recall itself vividly now despite her changed surroundings? |
5079 | Have n''t you noticed how often he has danced with her?" |
5079 | Have n''t you noticed that? |
5079 | He paused a moment,--then added:"You remember I told you I was hunting down that warrior of old time, Araxes?" |
5079 | He paused, and laid one hand kindly on the younger man''s shoulder,"Is it agreed?" |
5079 | Her dark, disdainful glance flashed on Gervase and Denzil; anon she smiled bewitchingly, and added:"Is it not so?" |
5079 | Her face, her eyes, are perfectly familiar; where, where have I seen her and played the mad fool with her before? |
5079 | How came I here?--and why? |
5079 | How can she appeal to art or sentiment? |
5079 | How could it be? |
5079 | How is that?" |
5079 | How often?" |
5079 | How shall I make a real beginning of this marvel?" |
5079 | How was I to know, how was I to guess that this horrible thing would happen?" |
5079 | How will it-- how CAN it end?" |
5079 | How will you give me my answer to- morrow? |
5079 | I ask you what satisfaction does it bring? |
5079 | I have known both you and your brother ever since you were left little orphan children together; if I can not speak plainly to you, who can? |
5079 | I hear you are trying to discover traces of Araxes?" |
5079 | I sketched her as I thought I saw her,--how did this tortured head come on my canvas?" |
5079 | I wonder now, how long this torpidity in the psychic germ has lasted in you? |
5079 | I wonder what I shall do with myself now?--haunted and brain- ridden as I am by this woman and her picture?" |
5079 | I wonder what gives you such an insatiate love of vengeance?" |
5079 | I wonder where we really met?" |
5079 | I''m sure YOU have lost your heart to her quite as much as anybody else, have n''t you?" |
5079 | In Paris? |
5079 | Into what place have I been decoyed at your bidding? |
5079 | Is he going to his death? |
5079 | Is inconstancy to women cruelty and want of principle? |
5079 | Is n''t it about time we all got ready?" |
5079 | Is not it so?" |
5079 | Is that the style you have got yourself up in for tonight? |
5079 | Is this a trysting- place for love as well as death?--and will she come to me? |
5079 | It is better that a beautiful woman should die in her beauty than live to become old and tiresome...""You think that?" |
5079 | It was called''Le Poignard,''do you remember it?" |
5079 | Lady Fulkeward has decided on that? |
5079 | Lady Fulkeward was not too tired after her exertions at the ball? |
5079 | London? |
5079 | Monsieur Armand Gervase, will you kindly step forward? |
5079 | Mr. Courtney was speaking about somebody''s beautiful eyes; who is the fair one in question?" |
5079 | Murray?" |
5079 | Murray?" |
5079 | My dear sir, why ask such a question? |
5079 | My good boy, do you not know that there is something very marvellous in the attraction we call love? |
5079 | Now, do you understand me?" |
5079 | Oh, Dr. Dean, have you watched my brother this evening?" |
5079 | Once only, he thought,"What if I left Egypt now-- at once-- and saw her no more?" |
5079 | One who knows how to be silent?" |
5079 | Only one thing grieves me, and that is, that I have, perhaps, unwittingly, in some thoughtless way, given you pain; is it so, Helen?" |
5079 | Or am I going to mine?" |
5079 | Or are you made of the same savage and impenitent stuff as composed the once famous yet brutal warrior of old time? |
5079 | Or what was it that seemed so strangely familiar? |
5079 | Or will it be the Courtney animal,--the type of man whose one idea is''to arise, kill, and eat?'' |
5079 | Satisfied with having compassed her degradation, he exclaims:''What shall I do with this beauty, which, because it is mine, now palls upon me? |
5079 | Some day you will think kindly of me again?" |
5079 | Speak low and quickly,--Dr. Dean is coming in here from the garden: when-- when?" |
5079 | St. Petersburg? |
5079 | Strange, is n''t it? |
5079 | Strangely embarrassed by their glances, he addressed the Princess in a low tone:"Will you not send away your women?" |
5079 | Surely you consider her beautiful?" |
5079 | Surely you know that?" |
5079 | THE Armand Gervase?" |
5079 | The Nubian''s grinning lips stretched themselves wider apart as, in a thick, snarling voice he demanded:"Votre nom?" |
5079 | The music sounds very inviting; shall we not go in?" |
5079 | The question is, how can you argue at all about anything that is so plain and demonstrated a fact? |
5079 | The soul of a fiend,--the soul of an angel,--what are they? |
5079 | The whole thing I perceive is rounding itself towards completion and catastrophe-- but in what way? |
5079 | Then he said:"Have you told Denzil?" |
5079 | Then modern France is like old Egypt?" |
5079 | Then the impression she gave you first is still upon you-- that of having known her before?" |
5079 | Then you will no doubt admit that there is Something-- an Intelligent Principle or Spiritual Force-- which creates and controls this Matter?" |
5079 | Then, turning to a passing waiter, he inquired:"Is the Princess Ziska here still?" |
5079 | There is nothing further-- no mysteries beyond? |
5079 | Thousands? |
5079 | Thus, if flowers are born alike in different ages, why not women and men?" |
5079 | Waiter, some more coffee, please?" |
5079 | Was it her beauty which so dazzled his senses? |
5079 | Was it some subtle perfume in the room that awoke a dim haunting memory? |
5079 | Was she a model at one of the studios? |
5079 | We part friends, I trust? |
5079 | Well, what is the result? |
5079 | What can I do to put them right?" |
5079 | What change-- what form would be his now? |
5079 | What do I mean?" |
5079 | What do you know of it? |
5079 | What do you think I am made of? |
5079 | What does it all mean?" |
5079 | What fool''s notion is this in my brain? |
5079 | What have I to do with dreams of war and triumph and rapine and murder, and what is the name of Ziska- Charmazel to me?" |
5079 | What is Araxes to me?--or I to Araxes?" |
5079 | What is it that engrosses our fair friend more than the looking- glass? |
5079 | What is it to Raphael that thousands of human units, cultured and silly, have stared at his''Madonnas''and his famous Cartoons?" |
5079 | What is it? |
5079 | What is that bright drop on your hand, Helen?--are you crying?" |
5079 | What of her? |
5079 | What passion moves you thus-- what mystic fooling? |
5079 | What place is this, you ask?" |
5079 | What say you? |
5079 | What should be the matter?" |
5079 | What should he do with thrills of joy-- this poor Fulkeward? |
5079 | What then? |
5079 | What then? |
5079 | When shall I see you? |
5079 | Where have I seen her before? |
5079 | While Lady Fulkeward answered innocently:"Is it? |
5079 | Who are they?" |
5079 | Who can tell? |
5079 | Who shall tear her from me,--who dispute my right to love her-- ruin her-- murder her, if I choose? |
5079 | Why am I brought hither? |
5079 | Why do n''t you other fellows go and get your toggeries on? |
5079 | Why not?" |
5079 | Why should we go in? |
5079 | Why should you be afraid? |
5079 | Why, indeed? |
5079 | Will you accept that?" |
5079 | Will you come?" |
5079 | Will you introduce me?" |
5079 | Will you not join the dancers? |
5079 | With a chaplain and a"dark room,"what more can the aspiring soul of the modern tourist desire? |
5079 | You are entirely sure of what you said just now?" |
5079 | You are such a boy still, Denzil,--by- the- bye, how old are you? |
5079 | You call me''temptress'';--why? |
5079 | You do n''t mean to say you believe in the possibility of such an appalling creature?" |
5079 | You do n''t take Monsieur Armand Gervase for a ghost, do you? |
5079 | You have heard the expression''fighting the air''? |
5079 | You look amazed; you believe in lasting love? |
5079 | You meant it so, did n''t you?" |
5079 | You might as well ask what it is to Araxes now that he was a famous warrior once?" |
5079 | You surely do not expect me to remain single all my life, do you?" |
5079 | You, with your exquisite, glowing beauty and voluptuous charm, you would be a''wife''--that tiresome figure- head of utterly dull respectability? |
5079 | You-- you, out of all women in the world, I choose...""As your wife?" |
5079 | Your fancy for her is at an end?" |
5079 | Your glance lights on me, as the hawk''s lights on coveted prey; but think you the prey loves the hawk in response? |
5079 | Your parents were perhaps barbaric in their notions of love and hatred?" |
5079 | but where? |
5079 | demanded the Doctor politely,"or any of the Ptolemies? |
5079 | echoed Gervase, his black eyes dilating with a sudden amazement--"What do you mean?" |
5079 | inquired the Doctor calmly and without surprise,--"Not to come back?" |
5079 | mused Gervase aloud,"Do I know them?" |
5079 | said Gervase; then, beckoning Denzil Murray aside, he whispered:"Tell me, have you won or lost?" |
5079 | she answered; then in lighter accents she added:"Have you finished your first outline?" |
5114 | A reliquary? 5114 A stranger in Al- Kyris?--and from beyond the seas? |
5114 | Absent? 5114 Ah, Lysia, hast thou played me false?".. |
5114 | Ah, Sah- luma is thine host? |
5114 | Am I disfigured, aged, lame, or crooked- limbed? 5114 And I knew not the things that were once familiar and my heart failed within me for very fear..."What did they mean, he wondered? |
5114 | And Lysia is..--? |
5114 | And dost thou plead for thine absent friend, Zoralin? |
5114 | And how hast thou left thy pale beauty Niphrata? |
5114 | And that is? |
5114 | And this Prophecy? |
5114 | And to- night we are to go in for them thoroughly, I suppose? |
5114 | And what does he say about it? |
5114 | And what of the other missing sixty- nine books? |
5114 | And who knows,he thought moodily,"how long they will go on intoning their dreary Latin doggerel? |
5114 | And who,questioned Heliobas, in tones of hushed reverence,"Who was this Being that thus enchants your memory?" |
5114 | And yet what IS Realism really? |
5114 | And your guess is...? |
5114 | Are not all men thought mad who speak the truth? |
5114 | Are there different laws for high and low? 5114 Are you grateful for being, as you think, deluded by a trance? |
5114 | Are you reading my thoughts, Heliobas? |
5114 | Art thou condemned to die, or dost thou seek an escape from death? |
5114 | Art thou repentant? 5114 Art thou true friend, or mere flatterer to that spoilt child of fair fame and fortune?" |
5114 | As a separate Personality that continues to live on when the body perishes? |
5114 | Aye, most assuredly? |
5114 | Aye, verily? 5114 Bring him back? |
5114 | But are they attainable? |
5114 | But art thou then indifferent to woman''s tenderness? |
5114 | But how and when did you come? |
5114 | But suppose--suggested Heliobas quietly,"suppose she were to find an even more complete happiness in making YOU happy?" |
5114 | But the question is,--considering how it was written,--can I, dare I call this poem MINE? |
5114 | But what IS life without plenty of money? |
5114 | But you yourself are in the world of men at this moment--argued Alwyn--"And you are free; did you not tell me you were bound for Mexico?" |
5114 | Canst thou do no better than sleep--he queried complainingly,"when thou art privileged to listen to an immortal poem?" |
5114 | Canst thou not be happy, Theos? |
5114 | Changed? 5114 Criminal as I am,"he murmured tremulously,"I glory in my crime, nor will I seek forgiveness? |
5114 | Dark? |
5114 | Did I hear you aright? |
5114 | Did I? |
5114 | Did it arise from a contemplation of the site of the Ruins of Babylon? |
5114 | Do n''t you want to tell me about it? |
5114 | Do you see that gentleman? |
5114 | Does going to Mexico constitute liberty? |
5114 | Does her singing still charm thee as of yore? 5114 Does''Zabastes''still loom on your horizon?" |
5114 | Done? 5114 Dost thou really believe,"he went on jestingly,"in the divinity of poets? |
5114 | Entirely"What was his leading principle? |
5114 | Even if such a belief should have no shadow of a true foundation? |
5114 | Evolution from what? |
5114 | Finished? |
5114 | Forgotten you? 5114 From Christ Himself in person?" |
5114 | From one atom? 5114 Good? |
5114 | Gratitude? |
5114 | HIS? 5114 Hast THOU not loved her also?" |
5114 | Have you dined, Alwyn? |
5114 | He, like many others of his class, never took the trouble to consider very deeply the inner meaning of Pilate''s famous question,''What IS Truth?'' 5114 How can it crush me?" |
5114 | How could she know? 5114 How did you come by it?" |
5114 | How long wilt thou be mute, my singing- emperor? |
5114 | How many lovers hast thou had, fair soul?.. |
5114 | How many more fairy tales are you going to weave for me out of your fertile Oriental imagination? 5114 How so?" |
5114 | How? |
5114 | How? |
5114 | I am afraid,she said smilingly,"you must find us all very stupid after your travels abroad? |
5114 | I heard that stanza somewhere when I was a boy... why do I think of it now? 5114 I see you are still under the sway of the Ange- Demon,"he remarked cheerfully, as he shook hands,"Is he not an amazing fellow? |
5114 | I suppose I am to understand by this that you will do nothing for me? |
5114 | I suppose,he said,"there is no doubt of his returning hither?" |
5114 | If only for the space of some few passing moments, was not thy soul ravished, thy heart enslaved, thy manhood conquered by her spell? 5114 If that is your opinion, why go at all?" |
5114 | In safety? |
5114 | Is not this... a very.. remarkable occurrence? |
5114 | Is the fool dead, or feigning death? |
5114 | Is this the way you account for idiocy and mania? |
5114 | Knowest thou not that too much mirth engenders weeping, and that excessive rejoicing hath its fitting end in grievous lamentation? 5114 Mr. Alwyn will know who she is, will he?" |
5114 | Must I remind you of your early lesson days? |
5114 | My lord goes to the Palace to- night to make his valued voice heard in the presence of the King? |
5114 | My lord''s guest goes with him? |
5114 | Nay, art THOU one of the escaped of Lysia''s lovers? |
5114 | Nay, but she speaks of dying.. said Theos quickly..."Wilt thou constrain her back from death?" |
5114 | Nay, dost thou deem me so indifferent, my noble friend? |
5114 | Nay, if you consider the whole episode a dream,he observed,"why trouble yourself? |
5114 | Nay, wouldst thou indeed have consoled her, Sah- luma? |
5114 | No one? |
5114 | No? 5114 No? |
5114 | No? |
5114 | Not even that two and two are four? |
5114 | Nothing? |
5114 | Now did I express the proper opinion? |
5114 | Or are you resting from literary labor? |
5114 | Part? |
5114 | Perhaps not!--but what is he to do, if nothing else is offered to him? 5114 Perhaps you will oblige me with your name?" |
5114 | Please, sir, a gentleman called--"Well!--you said I was out? |
5114 | Pray, how can you separate life from its worldly appendages? |
5114 | Right? 5114 SHALL come?" |
5114 | Safer? 5114 Sah- luma,"he said, in a tremulous, low tone,"tell me truly,--is it good for us to be here?" |
5114 | See you not.. whispered Sah- luma to his companion,--"how yon aged fool wears upon his breast the Symbol of his own Prophecy? |
5114 | See you not, Theos, how warm and soft and shuddering a curl it is? 5114 She gave a short laugh,--then relapsing into severity, she added..."You will, I hope, tell Mr. Alwyn I called?" |
5114 | So thou dost think that, wheresoever Niphrata hath strayed, Lysia can find her? |
5114 | Still impervious to beauty, old boy? |
5114 | Surely things are not so bad as they seem, Villiers,--he said gently--"Are you not taking a pessimistic view of affairs?" |
5114 | Surely--he said--"you will begin to proclaim it now?" |
5114 | Tell me,he said wistfully,"how has it happened? |
5114 | Tell me,pursued Heliobas,"how do you define the vital principle? |
5114 | That I should assert... and you deny... facts that God Himself will prove in His own way and at His own appointed time? 5114 The KING?" |
5114 | The King? |
5114 | The foot of the mountain, at which men now stand, grovelling and uncertain how to climb? 5114 The gates?" |
5114 | The time has come for what? |
5114 | Then are you all Chaldeans here? |
5114 | Then there is no freedom in Al- Kyris,--said Theos wonderingly--"if the whole city thus lies under the circumspection of a woman?" |
5114 | Then why do you give them? |
5114 | Then why... suggested Theos anxiously--"why not go forth and seek her now?" |
5114 | Then will you go abroad again? |
5114 | Then you did the Holy Land, I suppose? |
5114 | Then you will bring him back to- day? |
5114 | Then,said Hilarion wonderingly,"you admit this man possesses a power greater than your own?" |
5114 | Thinkest thou so? |
5114 | This is a city? |
5114 | Thou art a new comer,--a stranger, if I mistake not? |
5114 | Thou art confident Niphrata will return? |
5114 | Thou dost return straightway to Sah- luma... is it not so? |
5114 | Thou hast strange notions for one still young,he said..."What art thou? |
5114 | To thank me? |
5114 | Treachery? |
5114 | Was I not right in thinking you would never consent to be interviewed? |
5114 | Was the sunshine too strong, my friend, that thou didst thus bury thine eyes in thy pillow? |
5114 | Weeping? 5114 What ails thee? |
5114 | What ails you now, Villiers? |
5114 | What am I? |
5114 | What are you staring at me for? |
5114 | What art thou? |
5114 | What canst thou ask that I will not grant? |
5114 | What do you know of the Nunc Dimittis? |
5114 | What do you mean by Science? |
5114 | What do you mean? |
5114 | What dost thou mean by''good''? 5114 What evil hath befallen thee? |
5114 | What harm should come to her? |
5114 | What has happened, Sah- luma? 5114 What hast thou done to Niphrata, to thus grieve her gentle spirit beyond remedy?" |
5114 | What is this Khosrul? |
5114 | What language is this? |
5114 | What now, Gazra? 5114 What sayest thou, Sah- luma?" |
5114 | What shall we do about this? |
5114 | What sort of fellows are these? |
5114 | What was that''adventure''you spoke about in your letter from the Monastery on the Pass of Dariel? |
5114 | What!--art thou already persuaded? |
5114 | What''s the matter? |
5114 | What, in such a case, would become of all the nobler sentiments and passions of man,--love, hope, gratitude, duty, ambition? |
5114 | What.. what is this? |
5114 | What? |
5114 | Where is Khosrul? |
5114 | Whither should we go? 5114 Whither should we go?" |
5114 | Who and what was Nir- jalis? 5114 Who says it? |
5114 | Who, and what are you? |
5114 | Whom hast thou there? 5114 Why art thou so unmoved?" |
5114 | Why ask for the King''s Laureate? |
5114 | Why dost thou stare thus owl- like upon me? |
5114 | Why is it impossible? |
5114 | Why not? |
5114 | Why not? |
5114 | Why should I have feared Zephoranim? |
5114 | Why should I? |
5114 | Why, in the name of all the gods, SHOULD they be raised? |
5114 | Why, what CAN I do? |
5114 | Why? 5114 Why? |
5114 | Why? |
5114 | Why? |
5114 | Why? |
5114 | Will you accompany me to the refectory, Mr. Alwyn? 5114 Willing? |
5114 | Wilt drown for a statue''s sake? |
5114 | Wilt leave our noble hostess ere the entertainment has begun? 5114 You PRAY?" |
5114 | You are certain of what you say? |
5114 | You believe in the Soul? |
5114 | You can not? 5114 You care for Fame?" |
5114 | You know this book? |
5114 | You mean to infer that the brain can not act without the influence of the soul? |
5114 | You saw no one but her? |
5114 | You think_ I_ care for the world? 5114 You won special distinction and renown there, I believe, before you adopted this monastic life?" |
5114 | Your heart can not be broken? 5114 Your name must seem a curious one to these fellows"--observed Alwyn, when he had gone,--"Unusual and even mysterious?" |
5114 | is that one can never be quite certain of anything? |
5114 | ''Prepare to die, O Zephoranim?'' |
5114 | ''The work is finished, most illustrious?" |
5114 | ''Tis a theory both strange and wild!--hast ever heard of it before?" |
5114 | --Here, collecting his scattered manuscripts, he put them by--"I''ve done work for the present,"--he said--"Shall we go for a walk somewhere?" |
5114 | --and he bent over her more ardently--"must I not meet my death at thy hands? |
5114 | --and his voice, even to his own ears, had a solemn as well as passionate thrill,--"Lysia, what wouldst thou have with me? |
5114 | --assented Villiers-"But what else do you expect from modern society? |
5114 | --he demanded irritably.."Art thou not my friend and worshipper? |
5114 | --he repeated, his thoughts instantly reverting to his friend''s vaguely hinted love- affair,--"What name?" |
5114 | --he said in a low, uncertain voice,--"Sah- luma, canst thou expect mercy from a woman who has once been so merciless?" |
5114 | --he said, scarcely conscious of the words he uttered--"Will you not tell me your name?" |
5114 | --replied Heliobas gayly--"And why not? |
5114 | --she asked--"The riotous crowd in the marketplace-- the ravings of the Prophet Khosrul? |
5114 | --she declared, with a ponderous attempt at playfulness--"You read the papers, do n''t you?" |
5114 | .. the patient grief of all- appealing Nature, commingled with the dreadful, yet majestic silence of an unknown God? |
5114 | ... A Woman or a Goddess?--a rainbow Flame in mortal shape?--a spirit of earth, air, fire, water? |
5114 | ... A friend?" |
5114 | ... ARDATH? |
5114 | ... And why have ye bound this aged fool with such many and tight bonds? |
5114 | ... Are his deeds so noble? |
5114 | ... Are my senses deceived? |
5114 | ... Are ye all turned renegades and traitors that ye will suffer him to go free and triumph in his lawless heresy? |
5114 | ... Are you''going over''to some Church or other?" |
5114 | ... Art thou not all in all to me? |
5114 | ... Canst never speak plain?" |
5114 | ... Come, delay no longer, I beseech thee!--do I not love thee, friend?--and would I urge thee thus without good reason? |
5114 | ... Could there be any one so marvellously privileged? |
5114 | ... Darest thou speak of treachery and Lysia in the same breath? |
5114 | ... Did she not hear Sah- luma''s pleading in her behalf? |
5114 | ... Do you call that friendship?" |
5114 | ... Doth she not dance a madness into the veins? |
5114 | ... Down into the blazing area of the fast- perishing Temple? |
5114 | ... FIVE THOUSAND YEARS? |
5114 | ... Had his life gone back in some strange way? |
5114 | ... Has God taught THEE the way to Everlasting Life?" |
5114 | ... Has the Laureate''s friendship thus misguided thee?" |
5114 | ... How hast thou used the talisman of thy genius? |
5114 | ... How shall the King quench it? |
5114 | ... Hyspiros a literary juggler and trickster? |
5114 | ... Is he a baby in swaddling- clothes that he can not be trusted out alone to take care of himself? |
5114 | ... Is not SHE a willingly violated vestal? |
5114 | ... Is not a producer of poems always considered more or less of a fool nowadays, no matter how much his works may be in fashion for the moment? |
5114 | ... Is there fresh havoc in the city? |
5114 | ... Is there none in all Al- Kyris?" |
5114 | ... Love? |
5114 | ... Nay, what should I do? |
5114 | ... Not till then?" |
5114 | ... Or was the work too vast for his ability? |
5114 | ... Past love? |
5114 | ... Shall there be no more heart- longings because ye are cold? |
5114 | ... Tell me, fair Angel, do I wake or sleep? |
5114 | ... Then.. is Khosrul right after all, and must one learn wisdom from a madman? |
5114 | ... Theos stared aghast at the glowing sky... whither had she gone? |
5114 | ... WHO WAS HE? |
5114 | ... What CAN you expect from a community which is chiefly ruled by moneyed parvenus, BUT vulgarity? |
5114 | ... What abject terror makes ye thus quiver like aspen- leaves in a storm? |
5114 | ... What ails thee?" |
5114 | ... What business can he have with me?" |
5114 | ... What business had you to stop on the way at any hotel? |
5114 | ... What could he say? |
5114 | ... What did it mean? |
5114 | ... What gates? |
5114 | ... What is her crime, ye fiends? |
5114 | ... What is innocence? |
5114 | ... What means this symbol to thine eyes? |
5114 | ... What moved thee to such frenzied utterance? |
5114 | ... What seest thou?" |
5114 | ... What seest thou?" |
5114 | ... What shall be done or said of it, in five thousand years, that has not already been said and done?" |
5114 | ... What shall hinder me from at once slaying thee?" |
5114 | ... What then was the actual worth of Fame? |
5114 | ... What was that? |
5114 | ... Where was that? |
5114 | ... Who IS Baines Bryce? |
5114 | ... Who gave thee leave to add more fuel to my flame of torment? |
5114 | ... Why burden thyself with a corpse when thou mightest rescue a living man? |
5114 | ... Why did their dark and frozen depths appear to retain a strange, living undergleam of melting, sorrowful, beseeching sweetness? |
5114 | ... Why doth the Law, beholding these things, remain in her case dumb and ineffectual?" |
5114 | ... Why such unmanly sorrow for one who is not worthy of thee?" |
5114 | ... Why wearest thou the garb of our citizens?" |
5114 | ... Why wouldst thou pray to be a servant of the Cross? |
5114 | ... Will he make our pulses beat with any happier thrill, or stir our blood into a warmer glow? |
5114 | ... Wilt curse the King? |
5114 | ... Wilt lose me now? |
5114 | ... Wilt mislead the people? |
5114 | ... Wilt thou become inglorious? |
5114 | ... Wilt thou take up arms against thyself and Destiny? |
5114 | ... a new disciple of the Mystics? |
5114 | ... a sensual egotist? |
5114 | ... a warrior stricken strengthless by the mummeries of priestcraft,--the juggleries of a perishing creed? |
5114 | ... after all, what did it matter? |
5114 | ... alas, what am I? |
5114 | ... am I not he whom thou lovest?" |
5114 | ... and are we not all weary to death of his bombastic mouthing? |
5114 | ... and dost thou dare to pretend that she hath preferred THEE, a mere singer of mad songs, to ME? |
5114 | ... and dost thou mourn her still?" |
5114 | ... and for me?" |
5114 | ... and have you not ASKED to be deceived?" |
5114 | ... and is there not a tender witchery in the delineation of my maiden- heroine, so warmly fair, so wildly passionate? |
5114 | ... and shall not one brief hour of love with me console the weariest maid that ever pined for passion? |
5114 | ... and that what we men call death is not a conclusion but merely a new beginning? |
5114 | ... and thinkest thou that we shall ever regret the loss of Heaven?" |
5114 | ... and what IS being in one''s right mind? |
5114 | ... and why art thou here? |
5114 | ... and why were they all so silent as though struck dumb by some unutterable dismay? |
5114 | ... and why? |
5114 | ... and will the grave seal down their hopes forever?" |
5114 | ... and wilt THOU pretend to be stronger than the rest? |
5114 | ... and yet if he indeed had such power of love, would it be generous or just to exert it? |
5114 | ... are not her vows long since broken? |
5114 | ... because men are vile, must a vile god be invented to suit their savage caprices? |
5114 | ... beneath the brightness of the moon? |
5114 | ... but dost thou think to what thou wouldst so eagerly persuade me? |
5114 | ... cheated, as it were, into a sort of semi- belief in the life to come by means of mesmerism? |
5114 | ... could he in very truth do it? |
5114 | ... could there be a more dazzling existence than that enjoyed by this child of happy fortune, this royal Laureate of a mighty King? |
5114 | ... do ye not all blaspheme?" |
5114 | ... do you think me crazed for saying so?" |
5114 | ... dost thou frown at me? |
5114 | ... doth SHE not count her lovers by the score? |
5114 | ... doth she not eclipse all known or imaginable beauty? |
5114 | ... for if she were, why should she veil her native glory in such simple maiden guise? |
5114 | ... for without it, how shall thy fame be held long in remembrance? |
5114 | ... has gossip whispered thee the name of the poor virgin self- destined for this evening''s sacrifice?" |
5114 | ... hast thou caught contagion from Niphrata, and art thou too, sick of love?" |
5114 | ... hast thou ill news?" |
5114 | ... hast thou not given thyself body and soul into my keeping? |
5114 | ... have I not given ye warning? |
5114 | ... he was in Al- Kyris!--why was he so distressed about it? |
5114 | ... here in this dark abode where none may linger and escape with life? |
5114 | ... here? |
5114 | ... his fame?" |
5114 | ... how bridge the depths between our parted souls? |
5114 | ... how darest thou speak of love to the Priestess of the Faith?" |
5114 | ... how had he vanished? |
5114 | ... how shall the mighty monarch defend his people against it? |
5114 | ... how shall thy muse- grown laurels escape decay? |
5114 | ... how was it worked up?" |
5114 | ... if not a Prototype of the future, was it a Record of the Past? |
5114 | ... imprisonments? |
5114 | ... in what blind uncertainty and pain? |
5114 | ... in what timeless trance of soul- bewilderment? |
5114 | ... is his mind so stainless? |
5114 | ... is his wisdom so great? |
5114 | ... is it so?" |
5114 | ... is not her life a life of wanton luxury and open shame? |
5114 | ... is she not fair? |
5114 | ... is the famous Sah- luma gone?" |
5114 | ... love,... or... base desire? |
5114 | ... loved before? |
5114 | ... might he not gather it? |
5114 | ... more deaths? |
5114 | ... more troublous tidings? |
5114 | ... must divine Religion be dragged down from its pure throne to pander to the selfish passions of the multitude? |
5114 | ... need I say more? |
5114 | ... no mercy in the icy fate that rules our destinies? |
5114 | ... not happy in MY house,--protected by MY patronage? |
5114 | ... now, Theos Alwyn"... he continued, apostrophizing himself aloud,--"Are you contented? |
5114 | ... of what avail is it for me to struggle in this dark and difficult world? |
5114 | ... or a Thought of Beauty embodied into human sweetness and made perfect? |
5114 | ... or a student of the Positive Doctrines?" |
5114 | ... or an actually existent Being? |
5114 | ... or dost thou seek an escape from death?" |
5114 | ... or had Sah- luma never truly died at all? |
5114 | ... or had he merely DREAMED of a former existence different to this one? |
5114 | ... or hast thou no remembrance of the nearest road to thine own dwelling?" |
5114 | ... or is thy manful guise mere feigning, and dost thou fear me?" |
5114 | ... or is thy voice too weak for such impassioned cadence? |
5114 | ... or was he hopelessly brain- sick with delusions, and dreaming again? |
5114 | ... or was this stately Chaldean monk, with the clear, pathetic eyes and tender smile, and the symbol of Christ on his breast, wiser than both? |
5114 | ... or.. didst thou discover the King?" |
5114 | ... parted before? |
5114 | ... ready to be made less than the lowest of the low? |
5114 | ... settest thou a limit to the power of the King? |
5114 | ... slain him utterly? |
5114 | ... so grave and rich and marvellously musical, yet thrilling with such heart- moving suggestions of mingled pride and plaintiveness? |
5114 | ... that is enough for you in this world,... and as for a next world, who believes in it?--and who, believing, cares?" |
5114 | ... that is to say, first principles, as that ten is more than three? |
5114 | ... the Press? |
5114 | ... the Ruins of Babylon? |
5114 | ... the life of a drunken voluptuary? |
5114 | ... the sudden arrest and imprisonment of many,--and the consequent wrath of the King?" |
5114 | ... things that like faint, floating clouds rimmed with light, suggest without declaring a glory unperceived?" |
5114 | ... those marvellous mountains that oft wear crowns of ice on their summits and yet hold unquenchable fire in their depths? |
5114 | ... thou who art Man, and therefore NO hero? |
5114 | ... thou who art an Emperor of Song? |
5114 | ... thou who camest to me so sweetly at the first? |
5114 | ... to build up hopes without foundation? |
5114 | ... to call upon God when there is no God? |
5114 | ... to dethrone and destroy the oppressor? |
5114 | ... to die? |
5114 | ... to elevate and purify the world? |
5114 | ... to long for Heaven when there is no Heaven? |
5114 | ... to pass through the darkest phase of world- existence known in all the teeming spheres? |
5114 | ... to rouse the noblest instincts of thy race? |
5114 | ... to uphold the cause of Justice? |
5114 | ... was it love indeed that he felt? |
5114 | ... was she in very truth that shining Peri whose aerial loveliness had so long haunted his imagination? |
5114 | ... were these the"silver eyes"in which Esdras had seen"signs and wonders"? |
5114 | ... what a rapture trembled through her sweet caressing voice!--"My Theos, who is so worthy to win back what is thine own, as thou? |
5114 | ... what can a man do better than enjoy?" |
5114 | ... what could he prove? |
5114 | ... what do you see?" |
5114 | ... what does he do, to merit a future life? |
5114 | ... what had it to do with his immediate position? |
5114 | ... what hast thou? |
5114 | ... what have I seen? |
5114 | ... what love? |
5114 | ... what menace? |
5114 | ... what of him? |
5114 | ... what of the Press? |
5114 | ... what promise? |
5114 | ... what says the beauteous Virgin to her willing slave?" |
5114 | ... what warning? |
5114 | ... what was that low, far- off rumbling as of underground wheels rolling at full speed? |
5114 | ... when shall it be unraveled? |
5114 | ... where hast thou been?".. |
5114 | ... where,--where had this tragedy been previously enacted? |
5114 | ... who can prove that the heavenly bodies are given to the study of music? |
5114 | ... why did they suggest themselves? |
5114 | ... why do ye deem love a sin and passion a dishonor? |
5114 | ... why gaze on me with so distraught a countenance? |
5114 | ... why not call it by the name of the ideal heroine whose heart- passion and sorrow formed the nucleus of the legend? |
5114 | ... why not? |
5114 | ... why should I aid thee? |
5114 | ... why wilt thou be thus self- disgraced and all inglorious? |
5114 | ... why, why had she left him"lost"as she herself had said, in a world that was mere emptiness without her? |
5114 | ... wilt denounce the Faith? |
5114 | ... wiser in the wisdom of eternal things than any of the subtle- minded ancient Greek philosophers or modern imitators of their theories? |
5114 | ... would he,--could he ever forget it? |
5114 | ... wronged each other and God before? |
5114 | ... ye WILL hear me? |
5114 | ... yet almost a platitude, for did not every one occupy themselves exclusively with the Now, regardless of future consequences? |
5114 | ..."Thinkest thou in very truth that I shall live again? |
5114 | ..."and he detached a spray from the bosom of her dress--"What hast thou to do with the poet''s garland? |
5114 | ..."and he struggled violently to release himself from Theos''s resolute and compelling grasp.."Where wouldst thou drag me?" |
5114 | ..."and she drooped her head lower and lower till her dark, fragrant tresses touched his brow..."Then,... thou dost love me?" |
5114 | ..."he resumed tenderly--"Come!--Why art thou thus silent? |
5114 | A Poet!--who wants me in this age of Sale and Barter? |
5114 | A genius must surely be more or less conscious of his superiority to those who have no genius? |
5114 | A singer of sad songs? |
5114 | A vision? |
5114 | ART THOU READY? |
5114 | Accursed work!--Will none undo it?" |
5114 | Al- Kyris was truly a Vision,--the rest was,--What? |
5114 | All at once a voice marvellously tender, clear, and pathetic trembled on the silence,--was it, could it be the voice of Khosrul? |
5114 | Alwyn?" |
5114 | Alwyn?" |
5114 | Am I in my right mind? |
5114 | Am I incongruous, and out of keeping with the march of modern civilization?" |
5114 | And FROM WHENCE came the atom? |
5114 | And could injustice be associated with divine law? |
5114 | And he( the Angel) took me by the right hand and comforted me and set me upon my feet and said unto me:"''What aileth thee? |
5114 | And how could he accuse Sah- luma of literary theft, when he had none of his own dated manuscripts to bear out his case? |
5114 | And if both Spiritual and Material BE accepted, then how can we reasonably dare to set a limit to the manifestations of either the one or the other? |
5114 | And is it supposed to contain a fragment of the true cross? |
5114 | And shall I not win my own death- garland of asphodel?" |
5114 | And so Khosrul disturbed the flood of thine inspiration to- night, good minstrel? |
5114 | And the King? |
5114 | And then what do you think happened?" |
5114 | And thy poems,... the fruit of thy heaven- sent but carelessly accepted inspiration,--who is there that remembers them? |
5114 | And turning to Khosrul he added--"Wilt break a lance of song with me, sir gray- beard? |
5114 | And was it not possible that this Spectre of Self might still be clinging to him? |
5114 | And what is Material Force but the visible manifestation of the Spiritual behind it? |
5114 | And what of Edris? |
5114 | And where had he been before he ever saw Ardath? |
5114 | And why the NECESSITY of any atom?" |
5114 | And why? |
5114 | And why? |
5114 | And, respecting the testimony offered by sight and sense, can YOU rely upon such slippery evidence?" |
5114 | Angel she was,--angel she ever would be,--and yet-- what did she SEEM? |
5114 | Are they men and women of commonplace and thoroughly material life? |
5114 | Are we able to explain all the numerous and complex variations and manifestations of Matter? |
5114 | Are we fooled by an evil fate?--or do we in our loves and marriages deliberately fool ourselves?" |
5114 | Are you quite convinced of your folly? |
5114 | Are you ready to being your spells?--and shall I say the Nunc Dimittis?" |
5114 | Are you still so much of a sceptic that you think an ANGEL would have bidden you seek a place that had no existence? |
5114 | Arrests? |
5114 | Art not these dry and vacant forms sufficiently eloquent of the all- omnipotence of Decay?" |
5114 | Art thou dead to the honor of thy calling, that thou dost wilfully consent to be the victim of wine- bibbing and debauchery? |
5114 | Art thou fooled likewise with the glimmering Soul- mirage of a never- to- be- realized future? |
5114 | Art thou ready, proud King? |
5114 | Baines Bryce, Esq.''? |
5114 | But I say, why did n''t you come straight here, bag, baggage, and all? |
5114 | But am I logical? |
5114 | But how? |
5114 | But now, tell me, have you thoroughly understood all I have said to you?" |
5114 | But tell me frankly, if I am as famous as you say, how did I become so? |
5114 | But tell me, Sah- luma, how could she know I was a guest of thine?" |
5114 | But was it a real awakening? |
5114 | But was it well for even a great man to admire his own greatness? |
5114 | But what danger? |
5114 | But what next? |
5114 | But what of that, little one? |
5114 | But what of the''cello?" |
5114 | But what was ARDATH? |
5114 | But what was this"Ardath"to him, he mused?--What did it signify? |
5114 | But whither? |
5114 | But who is going to be wise, or strong, or diplomatic enough to reform it? |
5114 | But would he believe in, or accept, the warning? |
5114 | But, Alwyn, you have n''t told me how you like the''get- up''of your book?" |
5114 | But,--speaking of the river-- didst thou remark it on thy way hither?" |
5114 | By my faith, thou art like Theos yonder, and hast chosen to wear a sprig of my faded crown for thine adornment-- is''t not so?" |
5114 | COULD he rely on sight and sense... DARED he take oath that these frail guides of his intelligence could never be deceived? |
5114 | Can I do so now-- to- night-- at once?" |
5114 | Can YOU understand it?" |
5114 | Can a Critic enter more closely into the secrets of Nature than a Poet? |
5114 | Can not these arms embrace?--these lips engender kisses?--these eyes wax amorous? |
5114 | Can you, will you help me in the search? |
5114 | Canst compose when thou art drunk, my dainty Laureate? |
5114 | Canst thou tell? |
5114 | Come, wilt thou? |
5114 | Come,... shall we join the brethren?" |
5114 | Could love COMPEL her, he wondered, to come to him once more while yet he lived on earth? |
5114 | Could that apply to him? |
5114 | Could there be a more perfect head than that dark one crowned with myrtle? |
5114 | Did all Sah- luma''s light follies, idle passions, and careless cruelties remain inherent in him? |
5114 | Did n''t I tell you I was n''t at home to ANYBODY?" |
5114 | Did they actually intend to worship her, he wondered? |
5114 | Did we not see it weighted with iron and laid elsewhere...?" |
5114 | Didst thou overtake and steadily confront yon armed and muffled stranger?" |
5114 | Do I not pay thee to abuse me? |
5114 | Do they disagree among themselves, and speak against one another? |
5114 | Do they love notoriety? |
5114 | Do they serve themselves more than others? |
5114 | Do they, can they honestly believe in God, I wonder? |
5114 | Do you profess to be wholly without it?" |
5114 | Do you remember it?" |
5114 | Does the world know her marvellous origin? |
5114 | Dost thou think they write what they mean, or practice what they preach? |
5114 | Dost thou write follies also? |
5114 | Dreams are seldom realized,... and as to the name of Ardath, have you ever heard it before?" |
5114 | Escape from death? |
5114 | Fame? |
5114 | Fame? |
5114 | For had not the crazed Prophet called Lysia an"unvirgined virgin and Queen- Courtesan"? |
5114 | For if thou art a stranger and knowest naught of us, how speakest thou our language? |
5114 | For life is nothing but vexation and suffering; are we dogs that we should lick the hand that crushes us?" |
5114 | For while thine unbelief resists my pleading, how can I lead thee from danger into safety? |
5114 | Forgotten Sah- luma? |
5114 | Friend Poet, do you think that even Heaven is wholly happy to one who loves, and whose Beloved is absent?" |
5114 | From whence do you come?" |
5114 | God Himself will not constrain it,--how then shall we? |
5114 | Good to be here? |
5114 | HIS life a glory to the world? |
5114 | HOW HAD IT HAPPENED? |
5114 | HOW LONG WILT THOU SEVER ME FROM THY SOUL AND LEAVE ME ALONE AND SORROWFUL AMID THE JOYS OF HEAVEN?'' |
5114 | Had he heard any of the conversation that had just passed between Lysia and himself? |
5114 | Had he the same pride of intellect, the same vain- glory, the same indifference to God and Man? |
5114 | Had not she, Edris, consigned him to his"own disdain, Athwart the raptures of a visioned bliss?" |
5114 | Has he failed to kneel to the passing Ship of the Sun? |
5114 | Has he returned in safety?" |
5114 | Has love, the primal mover of all things, no hold upon thee? |
5114 | Hast been his fly- i''-the- ear or cast- off sandal- string? |
5114 | Hast lost some maiden love of thine? |
5114 | Hast thou been grudged sufficient wine that thou dost envy me my slumber? |
5114 | Hast thou held converse with the Angels, and is Past and Future ONE with thee in the dream of the departing Present? |
5114 | Hast thou no vestige of a heart, my friend? |
5114 | Hath Sah- luma been present at their singing lesson?" |
5114 | Hath he not denounced the faith of Nagaya and foretold the destruction of the city times out of number? |
5114 | Hath it not a certain exquisite smoothness of rhythm like the ripple of a woodland stream clear- winding through the reeds? |
5114 | Hath not the High Priestess of Nagaya slaves enough to work her will? |
5114 | Hath seen her? |
5114 | Have I not challenged the very heavens for thy sake? |
5114 | Have I not ministered to grief as well as joy? |
5114 | Have you ever considered the particular weight of that word''MAN''in that text? |
5114 | Have you not desired to blazon your name on the open scroll of the world? |
5114 | He knew it well? |
5114 | He laughed lightly, and once more shook hands, while Alwyn, looking at him wistfully, said:"I wonder when we shall meet again?" |
5114 | He looked at them in doubt that was almost dread,... were they real? |
5114 | Here he looked about him in confused bewilderment.."Where is Lysia? |
5114 | His heart beat quickly-- could he believe her? |
5114 | How can it be otherwise? |
5114 | How can you serve me? |
5114 | How comes it your dull eyes and ears were fixed so fast upon yon dotard miscreant whose days are numbered? |
5114 | How could he speak against this friend whom he loved,.. aye!--more than he had ever loved any living thing!--besides what could he prove? |
5114 | How could he tell? |
5114 | How do you like my practical dissection of your new- found joys?" |
5114 | How had he managed to invest himself with such an overpowering distinction of look and grace of bearing? |
5114 | How have I offended? |
5114 | How if she were a wingless angel,--made woman? |
5114 | How long wilt mouth thy words? |
5114 | How many men would have loved thee as I have loved? |
5114 | How was my''celebrity''first started? |
5114 | How would it be, some of them thought, if they were more frequently brought into contact with such royal and gracious manhood? |
5114 | How?" |
5114 | Hyspiros a traitor to the art he served and glorified? |
5114 | I am perplexed at heart and slow of thought; wilt thou assure me faithfully, that this God- Man thou speakest of is not yet born on earth?" |
5114 | I have a dream,... and I see a woman in the dream"--here he suddenly corrected himself..."a woman did I say? |
5114 | I miss thy soft blush and dimpling smile,--what ails thee, my honey- throated oriole?" |
5114 | I suppose in the East, where the sun is so warm and bright, the people are always cheerful?" |
5114 | I think we''d better accept,--what do you say?" |
5114 | I wonder if the man I seek is really here, or whether after all I have been misled? |
5114 | I, Zephoranim, the destroyer of my friend and first favorite in the realm? |
5114 | I? |
5114 | If these poor lover- victims merited their doom, why is not Lysia slain? |
5114 | If, for instance, the King were made aware of Sah- luma''s intrigue with Lysia, would not his rage and jealousy exceed all bounds? |
5114 | In appearance, do you mean? |
5114 | In brief, you have recovered your lost inspiration; the lately dumb oracle speaks again:--and are you not satisfied?" |
5114 | In the first place, then, let me ask you, have you told any one, save me, the story of your Ardath adventure?" |
5114 | In the first place... WHO WAS HE? |
5114 | In what vast mystery have I been engulfed? |
5114 | In what way can Heliobas, who is dead to the world, serve one for whom surely as yet the world is everything?" |
5114 | Incongruous? |
5114 | Inconsistent? |
5114 | Into what vast realms of translucent light or drear shadow? |
5114 | Is it not better so than that the Universe should continue to seem beautiful only through the medium of a lie?" |
5114 | Is not this true philosophy, my Theos? |
5114 | Is she not a peerless moon of womanhood? |
5114 | Is that prudent? |
5114 | Is there a man in Al- Kyris who will treat as an enemy one whom Sah- luma calls friend?" |
5114 | Is there a next world for this?" |
5114 | Is this land a dream? |
5114 | Is this true? |
5114 | It SHOULD be,--but what IS it? |
5114 | It is purely a caprice of the imagination,--and what is imagination? |
5114 | Justice? |
5114 | Kill Sah- luma? |
5114 | Learning and scholarship? |
5114 | Like Shelley, he inquired,"If God has spoken, why is the world not convinced?" |
5114 | Long ago? |
5114 | Love is the only god-- who would doubt his sovereignty, or grudge him his full measure of worship? |
5114 | MYSELF or SAH- LUMA?" |
5114 | May it not happen, on occasions, that the so- called fool shall teach a lesson to the so- called wise man? |
5114 | Maybe YOU know something of its whereabouts?" |
5114 | Might he not possibly guard him in some way and ward off impending danger? |
5114 | Moreover, what do you mean by a''living Reality''? |
5114 | Moreover,--what is guilt? |
5114 | Mourn and bend ye all beneath the iron stroke of Destiny!--for know ye not how fierce a thing has come upon Al- Kyris? |
5114 | Mrs. Flummery in her presentation- dress''.. except Mrs. Flummery''s own particular friends? |
5114 | My name is Alwyn...""Theos Alwyn, the English author, I presume?" |
5114 | NOW do you remember? |
5114 | Nay now, what will ye do in extremity?--Will ye chant hymns to the Sun? |
5114 | Nay, why shrink from me? |
5114 | Nevertheless her sole delight was still to serve me,--could I debar her from that joy because I saw therein some danger for her peace? |
5114 | No?" |
5114 | Nothing? |
5114 | Now then, will you have the kindness to tell Mr. Alwyn I am here?" |
5114 | Now, if it be true, as I have often thought, that I COULD compel,--by what right dare I use such power, if power I have upon her? |
5114 | Now, suppose that, after all, Mr. Alwyn DOES care to submit to the operation, you will let me know, wo n''t you?" |
5114 | Of course he could easily repeat his boyhood''s verses word for word,... but what of that? |
5114 | Oh unwise, benighted fool!--where were my thoughts? |
5114 | Oh, speak!--is there no deeper divine intention in the marvellous destiny that has brought us together?--thou, pure Spirit, and I, weak Mortal? |
5114 | Oh, wilt thou leave me desolate and alone? |
5114 | Oh, you MUST remember? |
5114 | On his way, however, he paused and turned round:"Has Niphrata yet come home?" |
5114 | One must live? |
5114 | Only a torch for burning and no hammer for building? |
5114 | Or is it the fashion of Al- Kyris to condemn a man unheard?" |
5114 | Perhaps, said I, there is no assurance but in the notions of reason? |
5114 | Perhaps... who knows? |
5114 | Presently Heliobas spoke again in his customary light and cheerful tone:"Are you writing anything new just now?" |
5114 | Presently he inquired:"How comes it, Sah- luma, that the corpse of Nir- jalis was found on the shores of the river? |
5114 | Restrain thy wild and wandering fancies? |
5114 | SENTENCED joy? |
5114 | SOON MAY THE CHILD BE BORN WHO SHALL BANISH THE AGE OF IRON?" |
5114 | Sah- luma conquered, with an effort, his momentary irritation, and resumed coldly:"From whence do you come, fair sir? |
5114 | Salvation and Immortality? |
5114 | Say, hast thou occupied thyself with so much friendly consideration on my behalf, as I have on thine?" |
5114 | Self- surrender? |
5114 | Shall I show her up?" |
5114 | Shall it not be so, Lysia? |
5114 | Shall we go?" |
5114 | She was a living, breathing woman-- an actual creature of flesh and blood,--yet how account for her appearance on the field of Ardath? |
5114 | Shuddering with a vague dread, he asked himself the next question,... FROM WHENCE HAD HE COME? |
5114 | Since when have soldiers grown deaf to the voice of their sovereign? |
5114 | So you are an''interviewer''for the Press?" |
5114 | Soldiers and statesmen may bend the knee to their chosen rulers, but to whom shall poets bend? |
5114 | Some trick has been played on me... who brought me here? |
5114 | Speak!--What seest thou?" |
5114 | Speak, fair Queen!--how can I serve thee?" |
5114 | Speak-- how shall we cheer each other in the shadow- realm of fiends? |
5114 | Still, I should like to have them all the same,--will you let me write them out just as you have translated them?" |
5114 | Surely even a professor from Hypharus could find no more, and no less than four?" |
5114 | Surely there was no passing through such a barrier as this? |
5114 | Tell me, good Zel, what is the name of the self- offered Victim?" |
5114 | Tell me-- have we not met before? |
5114 | The Poet knows the truth,--but what are Poets? |
5114 | The flesh and blood, bone and substance that perishes in a brief seventy years or so and crumbles into indistinguishable dust? |
5114 | The question remains,... what IS logic? |
5114 | The religion of that long- buried city had been mere mummery and splendid outward show,--what was the religion of London? |
5114 | The rich man gains his cause,--the beggar loses it,--how can it be otherwise, while lust of gold prevails? |
5114 | Then straightway he became indignant on his friend''s behalf,--why should Sah- luma be blamed? |
5114 | Then where is the wise man''s superiority if a fool can instruct him? |
5114 | Then why do we dare to doubt the certainly conceivable variations and manifestations of Spirit? |
5114 | Then why must I lose thee? |
5114 | Then,--from whence had this music its origin? |
5114 | Theos what? |
5114 | They SHOULD be different? |
5114 | This is the letter to Elzear,"--here he held out a folded paper--"will you take it now?" |
5114 | Thou art too humble, methinks, for the minstrel- vocation,--dost call thyself a Minstrel? |
5114 | Thou must abide with me for all the days of thy sojourn here.... Art willing?" |
5114 | Thus much wisdom he had acquired,--and what more? |
5114 | To comfort the afflicted? |
5114 | To hours of pain and bitterness, as well as to long days of ease and amorous dreaming? |
5114 | To live a mortal life? |
5114 | Traitor or spy? |
5114 | Upon this the SENSES replied: What assurance have you that your confidence in REASON is not of the same nature as your confidence in US? |
5114 | Vex not thy soul as to thy friend''s virtues or vices-- what are they to thee? |
5114 | Villiers looked at him questioningly:"Tired of your own celebrity, Alwyn?" |
5114 | WHAT atom? |
5114 | WHERE ARE THOU?'' |
5114 | WHERE IS THE FIELD OF ARDATH?" |
5114 | WHOM had he seen? |
5114 | WHY did he love Sah- luma so ardently, he wondered? |
5114 | WHY was it that every smile on that proud mouth, every glance of those flashing eyes, possessed such singular, overwhelming fascination for him? |
5114 | Was ever a more indiscreet lie? |
5114 | Was ever poet, king, or even emperor, housed more sumptuously than this, he thought? |
5114 | Was he glad of the prospect, he asked himself? |
5114 | Was he then so selfish? |
5114 | Was he, Theos Alwyn, wiser than Democritus? |
5114 | Was his companion then a fitting Spectre? |
5114 | Was it dead with the Dream of Sah- luma? |
5114 | Was it not possible for men to be the gods of this world, rather than the devils they so often are? |
5114 | Was she REAL?--or a phantom? |
5114 | Was she not here a moment since? |
5114 | Was she not safer as thy slave?" |
5114 | Was she,--even she, God''s Angel, so far removed from pride, as to be uncertain of her lover''s reception of such a gift of love? |
5114 | Was there a choir practising inside at this hour of the night? |
5114 | Was there, COULD there be something not yet altogether understood or fathomed in the Christian creed? |
5114 | Was there, could there, be anything mysterious or sacred in this"wiste field"anciently known as"Ardath"? |
5114 | Was this Lysia? |
5114 | We believe in no actual Creed,--who does? |
5114 | We have met before!--Why,--after all that has passed,--do we meet again?" |
5114 | We see the outer Appearance of the woman, but what of that? |
5114 | Wear and tear and worry of modern existence?--Oh yes, I know!--but why the wear tear and worry at all? |
5114 | Well,--if there WERE angels, why not? |
5114 | Were they not the flowers of ARDATH? |
5114 | What admonition does it hold for thee? |
5114 | What ails thee now? |
5114 | What ails thee? |
5114 | What assurance have you that all you feel and know does actually exist? |
5114 | What can I, or you, or any one, do against the iron force of Free- Will? |
5114 | What could she mean? |
5114 | What did it all mean? |
5114 | What did she mean? |
5114 | What didst thou say? |
5114 | What dost thou here? |
5114 | What dost thou need of praise? |
5114 | What flowers were those she wore at her breast!--so white, so star- like, so suggestive of paradise lilies new- gathered? |
5114 | What frenzy possesses thee?" |
5114 | What hast thou to do with Zephoranim, that thou dost wind thy many coils about his heart? |
5114 | What hath he done? |
5114 | What have I to do with love? |
5114 | What have you there?" |
5114 | What if thou wert offered his place? |
5114 | What in the name of all her beautiful, delicate, glowing youth, had she to do with death? |
5114 | What is evil? |
5114 | What is good? |
5114 | What is it for? |
5114 | What is it? |
5114 | What is this that parts us?" |
5114 | What is this woman to thee?" |
5114 | What knowest thou of His Majesty''s humors? |
5114 | What means this throaty clamor? |
5114 | What might they mean to him, here and now? |
5114 | What mysterious agency sets the heart beating and the blood flowing? |
5114 | What mysterious indication of affinity did they read in one another''s faces? |
5114 | What news hast thou, my sweet? |
5114 | What next? |
5114 | What of the High Priestess then? |
5114 | What of the poem? |
5114 | What of the"Flower- crowned Wonder"of the Field of Ardath, strayed for a while out of her native Heaven? |
5114 | What sayest thou now of doom,--of judgment,--of the waning of glory? |
5114 | What sayest thou of Heaven? |
5114 | What shall be told concerning His most marvellous Beauty? |
5114 | What shall prevent me?" |
5114 | What slight Figure was that, pacing slowly, serenely, and all alone in the moonlight? |
5114 | What sombre cloud has crossed thy wine- hued heaven? |
5114 | What spectral shadow of dread hovered above this brilliant scene of high feasting and voluptuous revelry? |
5114 | What unusual sight attracted them? |
5114 | What was any physical suffering compared to such a frenzy of mind- agony? |
5114 | What was it then? |
5114 | What was the man talking about? |
5114 | What was the time? |
5114 | What were the sufferings of Nir- jalis now? |
5114 | What would be the result? |
5114 | What!--Sah- luma,--a Poet, whose songs of Love were so perfect, so wildly sweet and soul- entrancing-- HE, to be ignorant of Love''s true meaning? |
5114 | What!--dost thou play the heroic with me? |
5114 | What!--ye WILL see me now? |
5114 | What, as a rule, DO men believe in? |
5114 | What-- WHAT was that dazzling something in the air that flashed and whirled and shone like glittering wheels of golden flame? |
5114 | When at last he had retired for a breathing- while, Heliobas turned to Alwyn with the question:"What do you think of him?" |
5114 | When did the idea first strike you?" |
5114 | When he had gone, Theos looked up from the news- scroll he was perusing:"Is it not strange Niphrata should have left thee thus, Sah- luma?".. |
5114 | When should he again meet her? |
5114 | Whence results the confidence I have in sensible things? |
5114 | Where didst thou see him?" |
5114 | Where do you come from, old fellow?" |
5114 | Where had he gone? |
5114 | Where hast thou wandered so long, thou Goddess of Morn? |
5114 | Where have I strayed? |
5114 | Where is Elzear the hermit? |
5114 | Where is there any freedom in life? |
5114 | Where is thy fool Zebastes? |
5114 | Where is thy sight.. thy memory? |
5114 | Where then, if not here, could she find happiness?" |
5114 | Where was this place, he wondered wearily?--When had he seen it? |
5114 | Where? |
5114 | Whether wilt thou go? |
5114 | Whither art thou bound?" |
5114 | Whither wouldst thou wander in search of me? |
5114 | Who among men would turn aside from high feasting and mirthful company? |
5114 | Who but a madman would be honest in these days of competition and greed of gain? |
5114 | Who could gaze on the exquisite outlines of a form fairer than that of any sculptured Venus and refuse to acknowledge its powerfully sweet attraction? |
5114 | Who could look on such delicate, dangerous, witching charms unmoved? |
5114 | Who could she be? |
5114 | Who is there here that believes in the Sun as a god, or in Nagaya as a mediator? |
5114 | Who says I am famous?" |
5114 | Who speaks of the cool sweetness of the grave,--the quiet ending of all strife,--the unbreaking seal of Fate, the deep and stirless rest? |
5114 | Who will join with me in a lament for Al- Kyris? |
5114 | Who wrote the story? |
5114 | Whom have ye seized thus roughly? |
5114 | Whose handwriting should it be?" |
5114 | Why dost thou thus disquiet thyself concerning the end of life, seeing that verily it hath NO end? |
5114 | Why should we willfully JAR God''s music, of which we are a part? |
5114 | Why talk thus wildly? |
5114 | Why thus hanker after a phantom loveliness? |
5114 | Why was he set apart thus, solitary, poor, and empty of all worth, WHILE ANOTHER REAPED THE FRUITS OF HIS GENIUS? |
5114 | Why? |
5114 | Will I be drunk at sunrise? |
5114 | Will a Zabastes move us to tears and passion? |
5114 | Will they take money for their professed knowledge? |
5114 | Will ye supplicate Nagaya? |
5114 | Will you explain?" |
5114 | Will you? |
5114 | Wilt drink with me?" |
5114 | Wilt moralize on the folly of the time,--the vices of the age? |
5114 | Wilt preach? |
5114 | Wilt prophesy? |
5114 | Wilt thou also maintain a creed of hope when naught awaits us but despair? |
5114 | Wilt''blind thyself with beauty''as thou say''st? |
5114 | With all the coyness, all the beauty sheen Of thy rapt face? |
5114 | Woe is me that ye would not listen when I called, but turned every man to his own devices and the following after idols? |
5114 | Would we might die most absolutely thus, heart against heart, never to wake again and loathe eathtypo or archaism? |
5114 | Yet the question still remained--, was Khosrul right or wrong? |
5114 | Yet where was the resemblance? |
5114 | Yet why? |
5114 | Yet, how are we to fathom her nature? |
5114 | Yielding to a sudden impulse, Alwyn spoke his thought aloud:"Heliobas,"he said,"tell me, could not I, too, become a member of your Fraternity?" |
5114 | You are QUITE sure I can not see him?" |
5114 | You know what one of your modern writers says of life? |
5114 | You know what that means?" |
5114 | You really like the appearance of it, then? |
5114 | You say he was without faith?" |
5114 | You spoke of having gathered one of the miracle- flowers on the Prophet''s field,--may I see it?" |
5114 | Young and pretty?" |
5114 | a choice morsel for a lover''s banquet? |
5114 | a poet- heart, to feel the misery of the world? |
5114 | and Sah- luma laughed musically.."My simple friend, dost thou ask me such a babe''s question?"... |
5114 | and Sah- luma smiled at Theos as he spoke--"Thou wilt accompany me to the King, my friend?" |
5114 | and a look of pathetic sorrow came over her face.."How could I, even for thee, my Theos, forsake my home in Heaven?" |
5114 | and also how foolish was thy fancy last night with regard to the armed masquerader thou didst see in Lysia''s garden?" |
5114 | and cool thy head at the first fountain?" |
5114 | and dost thou not comprehend the intention of the Highest in manifesting it unto thee? |
5114 | and he paused at the side of the girl standing by the harp--"Hast thou sung many of my songs to- day? |
5114 | and his aged face took upon itself a ghastly greenish pallor--"Hear you not the muttering of the thunder underground? |
5114 | and how shall we pacify her righteous wrath, concerning this too tranquil death of the undeserving and impure?" |
5114 | and then for evermore His sacred Name shall dominate and civilize the world...""What Name?".. |
5114 | and was it not a parting of soul from soul? |
5114 | and when we come face to face with the Last Dark Mystery, what shall our little wisdom profit us?" |
5114 | and when? |
5114 | and whether Religion will in the future occupy no more serious consideration than the Drama? |
5114 | and why art thou so disquieted? |
5114 | and why is thine understanding troubled and the thoughts of thine heart? |
5114 | and wilt thou sue for pardon?" |
5114 | art thou there, Sah- luma? |
5114 | ask your name?" |
5114 | asked Theos half banteringly, as he took his arm--"Dost thou love no one?" |
5114 | but WHERE? |
5114 | but still, would not everything that happened in the ACTUAL world merge into that same undecided dimness with the lapse of time? |
5114 | but was there no after- means of lifting it from thence, and placing it where best such carrion should be found? |
5114 | called Theos, running after him.."Tell me,--is this the way to the palace of the King''s Laureate?" |
5114 | canst tell me whither we should turn? |
5114 | cried Villiers, sitting bolt upright and shooting out the word like a bullet from a gun,--"Free? |
5114 | cried Zephoranim at last, dashing away the drops his merriment had brought into his eyes--"Wilt kill me with thy bitter- mouthed jests? |
5114 | demanded Alwyn.."Why should not clerics be told, once and for all, how ill they perform their sacred mission? |
5114 | demanded Heliobas--"If so, what then?" |
5114 | did ever man possess so dulcet a voice, he thought? |
5114 | didst thou not see the Black Disc last night in Lysia''s palace?" |
5114 | do n''t you think bed suggests itself as a fitting conclusion to our converse?" |
5114 | do n''t you think so?" |
5114 | dost thou blaspheme my lady''s name and yet not fear to die?" |
5114 | echoed Sah- luma petulantly.."Nay, have I done nothing more than this? |
5114 | ejaculated Sah- luma amazedly,"Not happy with ME? |
5114 | exclaimed Villiers petulantly, throwing down his bow in disgust,--"What business had you to think anything about it? |
5114 | for the night is almost past,--the morning is at hand, and danger threatens thee,--wouldst thou be found here drunk at sunrise?" |
5114 | for who ever heard the midnight stars or any other stars chant? |
5114 | from an Angel to a mortal? |
5114 | good?" |
5114 | he asked after a while--"You said you were on the search for a new sensation- did you experience it?" |
5114 | he asked listlessly.."What is its nature and whom doth it concern?" |
5114 | he asked, suspiciously--"And has the Silver Nectar failed of its usual action, and driven thy senses to the winds, that thou ravest thus? |
5114 | he asked, taking him by the arm,--"Are the pleasures of Fame already exhausted?" |
5114 | he cried almost furiously,--"Why dost thou mock me then with this false image of a hope unrealized? |
5114 | he cried gayly,--"Where is thy master Sah- luma? |
5114 | he cried, enthusiastically clasping him by both hands,--"Where, in the name of all the gods, hast thou been roaming? |
5114 | he cried,"what doth this fellow prate of? |
5114 | he cried.... then he added eagerly,"May I look at it?" |
5114 | he demanded gayly,--"Am I so bronzed?" |
5114 | he demanded gently--"Canst thou not improvise a canticle of love even in the midst of thy soul''s sudden sadness?" |
5114 | he demanded in a stern yet tremulous voice..."A thousand? |
5114 | he demanded..."What is thy calling?" |
5114 | he echoed, with an accent of incredulous amazement..."The King? |
5114 | he groaned inwardly, as he endeavored to calm the tempest of his unutterable despair,--"Who am I? |
5114 | he inquired gravely,"How?" |
5114 | he inquired--"Can it be well for men to cling superstitiously to a false doctrine?" |
5114 | he murmured pettishly, turning his head round toward Theos as he spoke--"Was ever a more foolish child than Zoralin? |
5114 | he murmured with compassionate tolerance--"Have I not told thee that five thousand years and more must pass away ere the prediction be accomplished? |
5114 | he murmured--"why taunt me with the name?" |
5114 | he murmured.."What moves thee to blurt forth such strange and unwarrantable sayings? |
5114 | he mused, as he noticed this brilliant and singular decoration,"an emblem of the fraternity, I suppose, meaning... what? |
5114 | he mused--"fools or knaves? |
5114 | he muttered in a thrilling whisper that penetrated to every part of the vast hall--"Wilt force me to drink blood?" |
5114 | he muttered under his breath,..."The King? |
5114 | he muttered with white lips.."Treachery? |
5114 | he muttered..."Why am I thus bound?--why can I not be free?" |
5114 | he observed, putting up his sword with a sharp clatter into its shining sheath,--"What name sayst thou? |
5114 | he queried lightly,"and wilt thou also be one of us? |
5114 | he said again, trembling in the excess of mingled hope and fear..."Hast thou then returned again from heaven, to lift me out of darkness? |
5114 | he said hastily in English,"I think I am not mistaken-- your name is, or used to be Heliobas?" |
5114 | he said hastily--"What are Kings to thee? |
5114 | he said listlessly.."Is it not as it was in the old time,--thou to command, and I to obey? |
5114 | he said pettishly, yet with a vacant smile,--"what question didst thou bawl unmusically in mine ear? |
5114 | he said thickly.."Did ye not hear me? |
5114 | he said with a touch of melancholy surprise in his tone--"Then wherefore art thou here? |
5114 | he thought half resentfully--"and how dares he predict for the adored, the admired Sah- luma so dark and unmerited an end? |
5114 | he whispered..."Saw you not the King?" |
5114 | her unselfish worship? |
5114 | how came he there? |
5114 | how can we decide? |
5114 | how comes it then that all Sah- luma''s work is but the reflex of my own? |
5114 | how do you know"... and Villiers shook his head dubiously--"What man can be certain of his own destiny?" |
5114 | how many have you? |
5114 | interrupted Theos, with eager abruptness..."Canst thou pronounce it?" |
5114 | is not the way made plain?" |
5114 | is the sun quenched in heaven? |
5114 | laughed Sah- luma--"Thinkest thou Lysia''s lake of lilies is a common grave for criminals? |
5114 | let us hope for the best-- God''s ways are inscrutable-- and you tell me that now-- now after your strange so- called''vision''--you believe in God?" |
5114 | murmured Heliobas, in a tone of suggestive inquiry--"really nothing?" |
5114 | murmured Villiers dubiously.--"What is she like? |
5114 | must I repeat the same thing twice? |
5114 | nothing so apparently rare that can not be reduced at once from the ignorant exaggerations of enthusiasm to the sensible level of the commonplace? |
5114 | now, if thou lovest me indeed...""Love thee?" |
5114 | one can not help wondering.. are their aspirations all in vain? |
5114 | or a student of the art of song?" |
5114 | or are they only acting the usual worn- out comedy of a feigned faith?" |
5114 | or rather a continuation of some strange impression received in slumber? |
5114 | or the glittering summit itself which touches God''s throne?" |
5114 | queried Alwyn.--"Does anybody know? |
5114 | queried Heliobas, meaningly,"or you HOPE? |
5114 | said Heliobas softly--"Your appearance indicates happiness,--is your life at last complete?" |
5114 | said the voice..."Wouldst thou crown Me, Theos, with so perishable a diadem?" |
5114 | said this personage in a rough voice as he withdrew his weapon--"What idle fellow art thou? |
5114 | she asked--"a city of men who labor for good, and serve each other?" |
5114 | she cried--"Art thou angel or demon that thou darest defy me? |
5114 | she murmured wistfully--"Tell me,--am I welcome?" |
5114 | she was his own heartworshipped Angel,--but on what errand had she wandered out of paradise? |
5114 | she whispered gently--"Happy as other men are, when loved as thou art loved?" |
5114 | she whispered.."Quick.. why dost thou hesitate?" |
5114 | since when hath he deserted his Court of Love for the colder chambers of the Sacred Temple?" |
5114 | then, turning to Theos, he inquired--"Wilt thou also wear a minstrel- garland, my friend? |
5114 | this small and insignificant court,--had so far escaped the fire, and was as cool and sombre as a sacred tomb set apart for some hero,... or Poet? |
5114 | thou hast no faculty in that kind? |
5114 | thou that wert the complacent braggart of love,--the self- sufficient proclaimer of thine own prowess, where is thy boasted vigor now? |
5114 | warn him against what? |
5114 | was it only through time- serving creatures such as this miserable Zabastes, that the after- glory of perished poets was proclaimed to the world? |
5114 | was there something supernatural in the music, notwithstanding its human- seeming speech and sound? |
5114 | was thy hot pursuit in vain? |
5114 | well,--what then?--Must I love many in return? |
5114 | what WAS his native tongue? |
5114 | what dost thou think of her? |
5114 | what had come to the fellow, he wondered? |
5114 | what hast thou done with the treasures bestowed upon thee by the all- endowing Angels? |
5114 | what link could there be between a mere man like ourselves and heaven? |
5114 | what mattered it to him that King, Laureate, and people had all prostrated themselves before her in reverent humility? |
5114 | what next? |
5114 | what the worth of Fame, if it were not made to serve as a bright incentive and noble example to others of less renown? |
5114 | what then? |
5114 | what then? |
5114 | what was he thinking of? |
5114 | what was that? |
5114 | what.. WHAT was it that Sah- luma sang? |
5114 | where shal I find her if not in the FIELD OF ARDATH?" |
5114 | where, in God''s name, had he seen all this marvelous, witching, maddening loveliness BEFORE? |
5114 | whether the two are likely to become one? |
5114 | who was she? |
5114 | whom had he met there?--and how had he come to Al- Kyris from thence? |
5114 | why not? |
5114 | why should we linger? |
5114 | why, why could he not take this dear companion away out of possible peril? |
5114 | wilt thou stint the generous juice that warms my soul to song? |
5114 | yes!--but are not men more inconsistent than the very beasts of the field their tyranny controls? |
5114 | yes,--but was it not almost base on his part to shield himself with that Divine Light and do nothing further? |
5114 | yet what could he say? |
5114 | yet what was he in himself? |
5114 | you will not? |
5114 | you would not drag her spiritual and death unconscious brightness down to the level of the''reality of a merely human life? |