"Qu'as-tu fait, ô toi que voilà,De ta jeunesse?"
"Qu'as-tu fait, ô toi que voilà,De ta jeunesse?"
"Qu'as-tu fait, ô toi que voilà,De ta jeunesse?"
Ah, well! It is not beyond my right to say that to you, since I am the only one alive who loves you.
TWO FEMALE VOICES BELOW
Cousin Rhoda! Rhoda! Percy! We saw you come up, from where the Coronation Chair is; and the little door was left open. Oh, isn't this splendid to find you? HowDOyou do?
THE VERGER
I beg your pardon, gentlemen; Evensong is just about to begin.
WETHERELL
Thank you; then we the heathen must go at once. Clay, let me present you to—— See: he's in dreamland.
MRS. WETHERELL
I wonder if thoughts of dinner can rouse him.
WETHERELL
Not unless you can provide the suitably archaic wild boar, and the flask of canary.
THE MISSES FRANEY
You both look so well! Dreadful, Percy, if you'll believe it. The stewardess said there had not been such a passage for—
MRS. WETHERELL
Hurry, Cornelia. The service is beginning.
(A strain from the organ wakes Clay. He follows them down, tiptoeing past the filling pews, covering the oak-twig still in his hat.)
WETHERELL
(In an undertone, on the threshold.) The air is good, again. Lo, I perceive the genial 'bus yonder, also several nimble cabs. Come, ladies fair; come, Clay. You shall eat posthumously in the nineteenth century, and make us all drink the health of "the Blackbird"; as the old song has it,
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(Clay smiles, and they pass out into the Square.)
THIS BOOK WAS PRINTED BYJOHN WILSON AND SON, ATTHE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE,MASSACHUSETTS, DURINGMAY, 1897
THIS BOOK WAS PRINTED BYJOHN WILSON AND SON, ATTHE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE,MASSACHUSETTS, DURINGMAY, 1897
THIS BOOK WAS PRINTED BYJOHN WILSON AND SON, ATTHE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE,MASSACHUSETTS, DURINGMAY, 1897
These essays have appeared, during the last ten years, in The Contributor's Club ofThe Atlantic Monthly,The Chap-Book,The Independent,The Catholic World, andThe Providence Journal.An Open Letter to the Moon, andOn Teaching One's Grandmother to Suck Eggs, are reprinted, by permission, fromGoose-Quill Papers, Roberts Brothers, Boston, 1885.
Transcriber's Note:Obvious printer errors have been corrected without note.