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Nets for the Wind

Una Taylor

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Description:A volume of the Keynotes Series which featured Aubrey Beardsley's cover designs and embellishments. Others in the series include acclaimed titles by authors M.P. Shiel, Grant Allen, Arthur Machen... Taylor's "intentionally phantasmagoric" tales in Nets for the Wind are emblematic of the Keystones Series' experimental, often radical, stylistic leanings.Excerpt: ...she saw his figure, she listened to his songs which jeered, to his laughter which stung; and his jests and his mockings had the poison of venomous snakes. At length the last night of the Christmas feast had come--the last night of her sojourn in the city. That night for one moment he stood beside her where in a gay crowd the King's masquers mingled with the guests in the palace banqueting-hall. 'Where is your faith now, little heart?' he murmured scoffingly in her ear. Her eyes with their dim shadowed blueness sought his. They answered him--those eyes which mourned, pleaded, believed, and worshipped. And, as once before, reading their creed in that starlit chamber, the words of half-uttered unbelief died upon his lips. 'You have lost your way in truth, you little white soul, ' he said. 'What have you to do with me?' Before she could speak he had left her, and was lost to her view amongst the moving crowd of men and women around. When again she saw him, he was standing in the centre of a group of reckless companions who echoed his gibes with laughter, and applauded his jeers with noisy merriment. She heard, and her heart sickened. Each word seemed to her as a blasphemy of life, the slander of humanity which is outrage to God. The past itself, her very memories, grew tainted and confused as she listened. Could it be possible, could it be, that her hands had ever rested in his hands secure of shelter and cherishing? Could it be that for her his lips had ever supplanted sacrilege with reverence? Had she ever been anything to his life, or was that brief remembered hour but the dream of a dream, was she no more to him than the shadow of a phantom on a twilight wall? The doubt was a torture--an overmastering craving possessed her to hold some..We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Nets for the Wind. To get started finding Nets for the Wind, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Publisher: John Lane

Release: 1896

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Description: A volume of the Keynotes Series which featured Aubrey Beardsley's cover designs and embellishments. Others in the series include acclaimed titles by authors M.P. Shiel, Grant Allen, Arthur Machen... Taylor's "intentionally phantasmagoric" tales in Nets for the Wind are emblematic of the Keystones Series' experimental, often radical, stylistic leanings.Excerpt: ...she saw his figure, she listened to his songs which jeered, to his laughter which stung; and his jests and his mockings had the poison of venomous snakes. At length the last night of the Christmas feast had come--the last night of her sojourn in the city. That night for one moment he stood beside her where in a gay crowd the King's masquers mingled with the guests in the palace banqueting-hall. 'Where is your faith now, little heart?' he murmured scoffingly in her ear. Her eyes with their dim shadowed blueness sought his. They answered him--those eyes which mourned, pleaded, believed, and worshipped. And, as once before, reading their creed in that starlit chamber, the words of half-uttered unbelief died upon his lips. 'You have lost your way in truth, you little white soul, ' he said. 'What have you to do with me?' Before she could speak he had left her, and was lost to her view amongst the moving crowd of men and women around. When again she saw him, he was standing in the centre of a group of reckless companions who echoed his gibes with laughter, and applauded his jeers with noisy merriment. She heard, and her heart sickened. Each word seemed to her as a blasphemy of life, the slander of humanity which is outrage to God. The past itself, her very memories, grew tainted and confused as she listened. Could it be possible, could it be, that her hands had ever rested in his hands secure of shelter and cherishing? Could it be that for her his lips had ever supplanted sacrilege with reverence? Had she ever been anything to his life, or was that brief remembered hour but the dream of a dream, was she no more to him than the shadow of a phantom on a twilight wall? The doubt was a torture--an overmastering craving possessed her to hold some..We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Nets for the Wind. To get started finding Nets for the Wind, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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