Excerpt from The Slanderers The Hun was ever a Hun, though he stormed through the Vale of Tempe or gazed upon Lombardic lakes, Splendid under a cloudless sky. Worthy follower of some commercial Attila was Zeus Gildersedge, a being granite to all nobler truths, impervious, irresponsive, unimpressionable, mute. Orpheus would have abandon ed him in despair. A fabulist might have classed him with Lot's wife petrified in the plain beyond Sodom. Zeus Gildersedge, misanthrope and consumer of opium, maintained a monasticism in ...
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Excerpt from The Slanderers The Hun was ever a Hun, though he stormed through the Vale of Tempe or gazed upon Lombardic lakes, Splendid under a cloudless sky. Worthy follower of some commercial Attila was Zeus Gildersedge, a being granite to all nobler truths, impervious, irresponsive, unimpressionable, mute. Orpheus would have abandon ed him in despair. A fabulist might have classed him with Lot's wife petrified in the plain beyond Sodom. Zeus Gildersedge, misanthrope and consumer of opium, maintained a monasticism in his vices and kept the world at bay behind the red-brick wall that bounded his patrimony. Imagine an antique, gabled house perch ed on a hill overlooking the sea, a house of quaint archaicness, warm of bosom, opulent in roof and the glittering lozenges of its casements, girdled with a belt of cypresses and yews. The place had derived a profuse and negligent picturesqueness from its master's avarice. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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