Excerpt: ...shore, the serrated line of mountains sweeping round the bay. And the colour was so intense that it overpowered the senses like a perfume, "like musk," I thought. When I turned to Doris I could see she was wholly immersed in her own sorrow, and it took all my art to persuade her to tell it, or it seemed as if all my art of persuasion were necessary. "As soon as you knew you loved him, you resolved to see him no more?" Doris nodded. "You sent him away before you yielded to him?" She nodded, and looking at me her ...
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Excerpt: ...shore, the serrated line of mountains sweeping round the bay. And the colour was so intense that it overpowered the senses like a perfume, "like musk," I thought. When I turned to Doris I could see she was wholly immersed in her own sorrow, and it took all my art to persuade her to tell it, or it seemed as if all my art of persuasion were necessary. "As soon as you knew you loved him, you resolved to see him no more?" Doris nodded. "You sent him away before you yielded to him?" She nodded, and looking at me her eyes filled with tears, but which only seemed to make them still more beautiful, she told me that they had both felt that it was impossible to deceive Albert. All love stories are alike in this; they all contain what the reviewers call "sordid details." But if Tristan had not taken advantage of King Mark's absence on a hunting expedition, the world would have been the poorer of a great love story; and what, after all, does King Mark's happiness matter to us-a poor passing thing, whose life was only useful in this, that it gave us an immortal love story? And if Wagner had not loved Madame Wasendonck, and if Madame Wasendonck had not been unfaithful to her husband, we should not have had "Tristan." Who then would, for the sake of Wasendonck's honour, destroy the score of "Tristan"? Nor is the story of "Tristan" the only one, nor the most famous. There is also the story of Helen. If Menelaus's wife had not been unfaithful to him, the world would have been the poorer of the greatest of all poems, the "Iliad" and the "Odyssey." Dear me, when one thinks of it, one must admit that art owes a great deal to adultery. Children are born of the marriage, stories of the adulterous bed, and the world needs both-stories as well as children. Even my little tale would not exist if Doris had been a prudent maiden, nor would it have interested me to listen to her that day by the sea if she had naught to tell me but her unswerving love for Albert. Her...
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Very Good. #654 of 1500 numbered copies. Spine label is deteriorated, spine darkened with some fraying and external cracks. Pages are largely not yet separated; carefully use a playing card to separate. Paper show some age-darkening as would be expected. No dj or slipcase. No prior owner markings or bookplates. Tight copy.
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Very Good. No Jacket. 335 pp. A very good copy in embossed green cloth. Fading and light soiling of boards and spine, creasing of corners. Wear to upper and lower edges of spines. Spine is shaken. Fading of page outsides. Contents of book are clean with bright, unmarked text.
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