The Project Gutenberg eBook ofThe RapinThis ebook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this ebook or online atwww.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States, you will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this eBook.Title: The RapinAuthor: H. De Vere StacpooleRelease date: April 3, 2017 [eBook #54483]Most recently updated: October 23, 2024Language: EnglishCredits: Produced by Roger Frank, Brian Wilcox and the OnlineDistributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (Thisbook was produced from images made available by theHathiTrust Digital Library.)*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE RAPIN ***
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Title: The RapinAuthor: H. De Vere StacpooleRelease date: April 3, 2017 [eBook #54483]Most recently updated: October 23, 2024Language: EnglishCredits: Produced by Roger Frank, Brian Wilcox and the OnlineDistributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (Thisbook was produced from images made available by theHathiTrust Digital Library.)
Title: The Rapin
Author: H. De Vere Stacpoole
Author: H. De Vere Stacpoole
Release date: April 3, 2017 [eBook #54483]Most recently updated: October 23, 2024
Language: English
Credits: Produced by Roger Frank, Brian Wilcox and the OnlineDistributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (Thisbook was produced from images made available by theHathiTrust Digital Library.)
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NEW YORKHENRY HOLT AND COMPANY1899
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Copyright, 1899,BYHENRY HOLT & CO.
THE MERSHON COMPANY PRESS,RAHWAY, N. J.
Inthe rooms of my friend Otto Struve there hangs a parrot cage containing a somewhat dejected-looking lark. It was given to him by Gustave Garnier, the man who took the Prix de Rome last year—or was it the year before?—and whose picture of a girl was bought by the state for I do not know how many thousand francs before it had hung a fortnight in the Salon. A story connects the painter and the picture and the bird—a story whose name ought to have been “Célestin” but for that eternal unfitness of things which makes the comedy of real life an inverted image of the comedy of romance and demands for the story of Célestin the title of “Toto,” or, if it please you better, “The Rapin.”
H. de V. S.