Inhaltsangabe
This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1901. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... Letter XC Imenstrdm, June 28th, 10th year.TM THE sister of Fonsalbe is here. She came unexpectedly, and intended to stay only a few days with her brother. You would find her now as charming, as rare as she ever was, and perhaps even more rare and charming than before. This unlooked-for arrival, the changes in life and things, memories never to be effaced, the place, the time, all these seemed to be in perfect accord. And I must acknowledge that while there may exist a more faultless beauty in the eyes of an artist, no one else unites more completely all that to me forms the charm of woman. We were not able to receive her here as you would have done at Bordeaux; at the foot of our mountains, all we could do was to adapt ourselves to circumstances. Late that evening, and at early dawn on the following morning, two of our meadows were to be mowed, so as to escape the heat of the day, and I had already planned a little Jete for my workmen, on this occasion. Some musicians from Vevay had been engaged; and a rustic breakfast, or supper if you prefer to call it so, beginning at midnight and suited to the tastes of the hay-makers, was to fill the interval between the evening and the morning work. It chanced that toward the close of day I passed before a low flight of steps. She was standing above ; she spoke my name. It was her voice, but with an unexpected, unfamiliar, inimitable accent. I looked at her without answering, without knowing that I did not answer. A mystic half-light, an ethereal veil, a mist enwrapped her, and in this shadowy haze her form grew vague and undefined. She seemed a fragrance of ideal beauty, a rapturous illusion, stamped for a moment with inconceivable reality. So this was the end of my delusion, now at last made clear. It is then true, I sai...
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