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diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6833f05 --- /dev/null +++ b/.gitattributes @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +* text=auto +*.txt text +*.md text diff --git a/19122-8.txt b/19122-8.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..14d8d8c --- /dev/null +++ b/19122-8.txt @@ -0,0 +1,751 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of Love Instigated, by Douglass Sherley + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere 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 at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Love Instigated + The Story of a Carved Ivory Umbrella Handle + +Author: Douglass Sherley + +Release Date: August 25, 2006 [EBook #19122] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LOVE INSTIGATED *** + + + + +Produced by David Garcia and the Online Distributed +Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was +produced from images generously made available by The +Kentuckiana Digital Library) + + + + + +[Illustration] + + + + + LOVE + INSTIGATED + + BY + BELL THE CAT SURLY + of the PENDENNIS CLUB + + + THE STORY + OF A + CARVED IVORY UMBRELLA HANDLE. + + + + "The Man that Plants Cabbages Imitates God."--Dobson's Choice. + + + + + + + + Caveat Filed, + By CURRY & DEARING, Publishers, + Louisville, Ky. + + + + + + + + + LOVE PERPETUATED:-- + --The Story of a Dagger. + + By Douglass Sherley, + + WHO WROTE + + --THE STORY OF A PICTURE.-- + + * * * * * + + An Edition de Luxe [special] net, $10.00. Limited number. Ninety-nine + copies--signed by the Author. Right reserved to advance price at any + time. Subscriptions received now. Popular Edition--a Christmas Card + Booklet [in a box], $1.00. Liberal Discount to the Trade. + + Edition de Luxe ready December Fifteenth. + + Popular Edition ready December First. + + + John P. Morton and Company. + Main St., Louisville, Ky. + + + + + + + + + Special·Dedication + to + the·Members·of·the·Sherley·Club + of + Little·:·Britain: + + --Despair·ye·not·at·all-- + + E'en·by·so·Small·a·Thing·as·this·Poor·Booklet + May·Your + Loves·be·Instigated! + + + + + + + + + Dedicated + To·Each·Single·Son·of·St.·Pendennis + Who·Worships·not·at·the·Shrine·of + The·Maiden·Priestess·of·To-day + --Let·Him·Look·to't,-- + Or·Likewise·He·May·Somewhere·Find + Love·Perpetrated. + + + + + + + + + Love Instigated. + + + +It was a daisy bit of Ivory. + +It was a curious piece of Workmanship. + +It was carved and carved again with Conventional Lines, which formed +a Female Head of East-Indian Unexceptionableness. + +It seemed to Smile and to Beckon, and then to Scowl repellantly--a +Living Mockery! + +It was Hateful--Oh, so Hateful!--the sight Of so conventional a Thing. + +And yet there had been such a Longing to touch It and to Hold It in the +Hand! + +But See the Sequel. + +It was not an Idol of India. + +It was the Carved Ivory Handle of a Tanned Gingham Umbrella, of very +Plebeian American Manufacture. + +It stood in a Hand-painted China Receptacle in The long quiet Hall, in +the House of a Friend. It was there when I Dined with him the Night +After Christmas. + +It Gleamed at me with a Sinister Gleam of its Dexter Eye! + +And it seemed to Smile and to Beckon at me out of the Soft, Voluptuous +Environment of The "Inner·Sisterhood," of which it was a Fellow. + +And when we were seated at the Glittering Table, beautiful with Crystal +and Silver-- + +And Lemonade and Cake-- + +An Esthetic Banquet-- + +It Chanced, by Merest Accident, that I was Given a seat opposite The +Portiered Archway which led into + +The Long Quiet Hall, + +With its Wine-Colored Wealth of Turkish-Bath Toweling thrown back. + +And as we Sat Beneath the Iridescent Glow Of the Keely-Motor + +Electric Lamp, which + +Glistened and Shimmered Its Stained-Glass Iridescence on all about +it, and gave its hue to The Invigorating Beverage, we heeded not the +Elemental war waging upon the Queen Anne Exterior of the Hospitable +Mansion of my Friend. + +And when we were left to our Coffee and our Pipes, we talked of Daggers, +and Epitaphs, and Tombs! + +And as he told me in a Mysterious Whisper the Story of the Malay Dagger, +"Guiltless of all Guile," the Vitreous Eye of that Quaintly Carved +Odalisque--for such my fevered fancy Pictured it--was ever Glaring at +me with its Sinister Glare! + +And when our Ghostly Talk was Interrupted By the Entrance of other +Guests, I Quaffed Another Crystal Goblet of My Friend's Brain-Maddening +Concoction, and casting a long, lingering Look at the Persian Rug which +hid the Graeco-Romanesque Architecture of the vaulted Ceiling, I passed +from the Gothic Portals of this Esthetic Shrine into the outer +darkness--beyond the glamour of the Seven Lamps of Architecture. + +But,--Oh Fitful Fate!--as I passed though The Long, Quiet Hall and +by the wine-colored Plush Corner from whose Voluptuous Shadow The +Sinister-Eyed, Carved-Ivory-Handle Odalisque cast an Alluring, +Appealing Look toward Me, and all Unconsciously, Unintentionally, and +Unresistingly I Took it from its Hand-Painted China Receptacle, and +closing the Heavy doors of Rolled, Cathedral Plate Glass After me, +I Unfurled its Sun-Tanned Gingham Folds to the aforementioned warring +elements. And as I Wended my Desolate Way to the Sainted Shrine of +Pendennis, my Seething Brain Peopled the Valley of Unrest with Elfs, +And Ravens and Brahman Gods, and the Dagger whose blood-stain belonged +to a Venetian Duke. When I Presently Entered the Resounding Cloisters of +the Order of ST. PENDENNIS--when I entered this "House without a Woman" +I sought the seclusion of a dark, Wine-Colored, Plush-Lined Cell, and +carelessly placing the Tanned Gingham, Vegetable-Ivory-handled Umbrella +on the Eighteenth Century Hearth before me, + +I threw my mentally-exhausted frame into a a Massive, Damask-covered +Chair with heavily-carved Arms of highly-polished Oak, and sounded the +Tiny, Tintinnabulating Call-Bell for Something to Counteract the Effects +of the Too-exhilerating Potables of my Friend, and his no less Harrowing +Stories! + +But while I thus sat waiting, with my feet to The Comfortable Fire, all +at once my Gaze was Unconsciously, Unintentionally and Unresistingly +Transfixed by the Sinister Glance of The Dexter Eye of the Carved-Ivory +Odalisque. + +And as I sat there in the Twilight Glare of the Slowly-Consuming +Embers on the Wide and Deep, Old-Fashioned, Open Fire-place, with +Lacquered-Brass Fire-Dogs--beneath the Spell of those Stealthy, Roguish +Glances, I, against My Wish and Will, was led to Think of The dark, +strange and weirdly grotesque things of which My Friend had Told me. + +And finally, as under the Strange Fascination of the Vitreous Dexter and +Sinister Eyes of The Carved-Ivory Odalisque, which Held me Spell-Bound, +I Learned from the Thin, Curled Lips of the said Carved-Ivory Odalisque +its Own Story. + +It was not Created by Love. + +Nor was it in Itself the Embodiment of Love. But it Bore in one of its +Flexible Ribs the Tangible Evidence of the Adhesive Qualities of a Love +Driven Back upon itself,--the Concentration of an Otherwise Wasted +Force. + +Less than a Thousand Years ago, a Dudish Roderick Dhu stood Flustrated +with Fiery Indignation, face to face with a Maiden Priestess--a +Prideful, Haughty Woman! + +It was on the Rue Quatrieme. It was at the Intersection of two great +Thoroughfares. + +The Clouds had Parted their Bangs in the Middle, and were Shimmering +their Crystal Drops of Distilled Ocean in torrental volume upon the +Luckless Wayfarers. + +It chanced that the Prideful Maiden Priestess Was Hurrying adown the +Boulevard with the Self-same Carved-Ivory-Handled Umbrella Closely +Clasped in Her Delicate Marie Antoinette fingers. She was thus Ensconced +Behind the Sheltering Tautness of the Stout-ribbed Gingham Umbrella +With the Carved-Ivory Handle, when she passed out of the Shadow of The +Massive Marble Edifice of Gothic Architecture and turned into the Rue +de la Chataigne--and Unconsciously, Unintentionally and Unresistingly +Punched a Tear out of the Dexter Eye of the Resistless Roderick Dhu! + +I am sure that Carved-Ivory, Oggling Odalisque was to Blame! I am sure +that it Wantonly Drove the Spare Rib of the Stout Gingham Umbrella to +the Accomplishment of its own Foul Purpose! + +The Prideful Maiden Priestess had great Commiseration for the Ardent +Roderick. + +She Frankly Told him so. + +And in a Tacit but Potent--Oh, so Potent--Way, bade him, if he liked, +to go with her to her Shrine and there have his Weeping Wounds Bound up +with "a Bit of East India Silk,"--at her Shrine, whose Doors should ever +be Open to Him. + +Oh! Chance, Fortuitous Chance! How many Followers of St. Pendennis are +Annually Ensnared in thy Name! + +Ere Long,--within a Month, a Little Month--the Dudish Roderick Dhu was a +cringing devotee at the Vestal Shrine of the Maiden Priestess, Praying +that she should receive all his Suppliant Love, and "right smart" of his +devotion. He would never leave Her Side. He would Never, never Smile on +other Maidens. He would Sacrifice each Trusted and Trusting Friend and +Creditor. She MUST receive his Heart and Hand, and his Partially-Eclipsed +Occular! + +Else, where, all the while, was all this Wealth of Passionate Love to +go to--If it was Spurned and Sent Back to its Donor? Who would have it +Second-Handed? + +This was, indeed, a Poser. + +It was Unanswerable! + +She did not Attempt to Answer it. She only Considered the First +Proposition. + +And she Thought of the Cruel, Cruel Deed Which she had been Led +by the Vitreous-Eyed Odalisque of Carved-Ivory to Unintentionally, +Unconsciously, and Unresistingly Perpetrate Upon Him; And--to cut a +Short Story shorter--she cast her 'Mind's Eye, Horatio,' upon his Queen +Anne Mansion Front, and Determined to Bestow upon the Injured Innocent +what remained--after Five Seasons--of the Wealth of Her Young Love. + + --Thus Simply is Love Instigated.-- + +Had the Maiden Princess Refused him her Silver-Tinged Love--Had she +Spurned and Thrown back upon his Hands his Passion torn To Tatters--he +Might Have Perpetuated his Love by Writing "a Book Without a Woman," or +Better still, he Might Have Spent the Force of his Extravagant Passion +by Executing, in Endless number and variety, Patent Ivory-handled +Umbrellas, Quaintly Carved in the Verisimility of the Oggling Odalisque, +which Impelled the Hand that Instigated his Love by Peeling his Dexter +Eye. + +But, Alas! The Thoughtless Pair of Innocents did not Consider that +their Love, being Mutual, Must, by the Decree of St. Douglass, +die--Unperpetuated--with Them! + +Or, if they Weighed the Dire Decree in the Balances of their Social +Philosophy, I Doubt Not that they Considered that if they Perpetuated +their Love the Length of their Natural Lives they Would have +Accomplished Enough. And, methinks their Heads were Equipoised. This +Work-a-Day World has all the Dudish Booklets and Carved-Ivory Dagger and +Umbrella Handles that it can Easily Carry. Let not Another Booklet break +Old Atlas' Back. + +And "Douglass, O Douglass, Tender and True," Carve for us no more +Heathen Gods of Love. E'en now Their Occupation's Gone. + +The Star-Eyed Goddess that Shines Forth From the Glittering Surface of +the Almighty Dollar is Goddess Potent enough to Perpetuate the Love of +this Day and Generation, even as by her Influence often is + + Love Instigated. + + * * * * * + +But the Quaintly Carved Vegetable-Ivory Odalisque Handle of the +Tanned-Gingham Umbrella that Rested in the Hand-Painted China Receptacle +that Stood in the Voluptuous Environment of the Wine-Colored Plush +Corner of the Long, Quiet Hall of the House of a Friend Where I Supped +the Night after Christmas--[Was this the House that Zack Built?]--It +still Glared at me with a Sinister Gleam of its Dexter Eye as it Oggled +me from its Place on the Hearth of the Wine-Scented Cell--Plush-Lined +Cell--in the Cloistered Precincts of Saint Pendennis. + + * * * * * + +It seemed to Smile a Ready, Garrulous Assent to all that which I have +Said. + +These Words it Seemed to Murmur: + +Oh! Thou Unmitigated Umbrella-Theif! Return Me to the home of those +whose Love I Instigated, whose Happy Household I am Responsible for. +Wake ye! Sleeping Son of Pendennis, or by the Goddess Si[l]va, I will +Execute Dire Vengeance Upon you! + +Even as I once was the Instigator of Love, upon You may be, + + Love Instigated! + + + + +[Illustration] + + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Love Instigated, by Douglass Sherley + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LOVE INSTIGATED *** + +***** This file should be named 19122-8.txt or 19122-8.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/1/2/19122/ + +Produced by David Garcia and the Online Distributed +Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was +produced from images generously made available by The +Kentuckiana Digital Library) + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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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 at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Love Instigated + The Story of a Carved Ivory Umbrella Handle + +Author: Douglass Sherley + +Release Date: August 25, 2006 [EBook #19122] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LOVE INSTIGATED *** + + + + +Produced by David Garcia and the Online Distributed +Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was +produced from images generously made available by The +Kentuckiana Digital Library) + + + + + + +</pre> + + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="pagei" name="pagei"></a>[<a href="images/001.png">img</a>]</span></p> + +<div class="figure"> +<a href="images/001.png"><img src="images/001.png" width="300" alt="LOVE INSTIGATED" /></a> +</div> + +<div style="height: 6em;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></div> + +<h1> + LOVE +<br /> + INSTIGATED +</h1> +<h2> + BY +<br /> + BELL THE CAT SURLY +<br /> + of the PENDENNIS CLUB +</h2> +<h3> + THE STORY +<br /> + OF A +<br /> + CARVED IVORY UMBRELLA HANDLE. +</h3> +<h4> + "The Man that Plants Cabbages Imitates God."—Dobson's Choice. +</h4> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="pageii" name="pageii"></a>[<a href="images/002.png">img</a>]</span></p> + +<div style="height: 4em;"><br /><br /><br /><br /></div> + +<p class="center" style="font-variant: small-caps; font-size: 70%;"> + Caveat Filed,<br /> + By CURRY & DEARING, Publishers,<br /> + Louisville, Ky. +</p> + +<div style="height: 2em;"><br /><br /></div> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="pageiii" name="pageiii"></a>[<a href="images/003.png">img</a>]</span></p> + +<div style="height: 4em;"><br /><br /><br /><br /></div> + +<h2> + LOVE PERPETUATED:<span style="letter-spacing: -.33em;">——</span> +<br /> + <span style="letter-spacing: -.25em;">——</span>The Story of a Dagger. +</h2> +<p class="center"> + By <span class="mc">D</span>ouglass <span class="mc">S</span>herley,<br /> + <span style="font-size: 70%; line-height:1em;">WHO WROTE<br /> + —THE STORY OF A PICTURE.—</span> +</p> + +<hr /> + +<p> +<span class="mc">A</span>n <span class="mc">E</span>dition de <span class="mc">L</span>uxe [special] net, $10.00. <span class="mc">L</span>imited number. <span class="mc">N</span>inety-nine +copies—signed by the <span class="mc">A</span>uthor. <span class="mc">R</span>ight reserved to advance price at any +time. <span class="mc">S</span>ubscriptions received now. <span class="mc">P</span>opular <span class="mc">E</span>dition—a <span class="mc">C</span>hristmas <span class="mc">C</span>ard +<span class="mc">B</span>ooklet [in a box], $1.00. <span class="mc">L</span>iberal <span class="mc">D</span>iscount to the <span class="mc">T</span>rade. +</p> +<p> +<span class="mc">E</span>dition de <span class="mc">L</span>uxe ready <span class="mc">D</span>ecember <span class="mc">F</span>ifteenth. +</p> +<p> +<span class="mc">P</span>opular <span class="mc">E</span>dition ready <span class="mc">D</span>ecember <span class="mc">F</span>irst. +</p> +<p style="text-align:right;"> + <span class="mc">J</span>ohn <span class="mc">P</span>. <span class="mc">M</span>orton and <span class="mc">C</span>ompany.<br /> + <span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 80%;">Main St., Louisville, Ky.</span> +</p> + +<div style="height: 4em;"><br /><br /><br /><br /></div> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="pageiv" name="pageiv"></a>[<a href="images/004.png">img</a>]</span></p> + +<p> + <!--[Blank Page]--> +</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="pagev" name="pagev"></a>[<a href="images/005.png">img</a>]</span></p> + +<p class="center"> + <span class="mc">S</span>pecial·<span class="mc">D</span>edication<br /> + to<br /> + the·<span class="mc">M</span>embers·of·the·<span class="mc">S</span>herley·<span class="mc">C</span>lub<br /> + of<br /> + <span class="mc">L</span>ittle·:·<span class="mc">B</span>ritain:<br /> +<br /> + —<span class="mc">D</span>espair·ye·not·at·all—<br /> +<br /> + <span class="mc">E</span>'en·by·so·<span class="mc">S</span>mall·a·<span class="mc">T</span>hing·as·this·<span class="mc">P</span>oor·<span class="mc">B</span>ooklet<br /> + <span class="mc">M</span>ay·<span class="mc">Y</span>our<br /> + <span class="mc">L</span>oves·be·<span class="mc">I</span>nstigated!<br /> +</p> + +<div style="height: 4em;"><br /><br /><br /><br /></div> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="pagevi" name="pagevi"></a>[<a href="images/006.png">img</a>]</span></p> + +<p> + <!--[Blank Page]--> +</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="pagevii" name="pagevii"></a>[<a href="images/007.png">img</a>]</span></p> + +<p class="center"> + <span class="mc">D</span>edicated<br /> + <span class="mc">T</span>o·<span class="mc">E</span>ach·<span class="mc">S</span>ingle·<span class="mc">S</span>on·of·<span class="mc">S</span>t.·<span class="mc">P</span>endennis<br /> + <span class="mc">W</span>ho·<span class="mc">W</span>orships·not·at·the·<span class="mc">S</span>hrine·of<br /> + <span class="mc">T</span>he·<span class="mc">M</span>aiden·<span class="mc">P</span>riestess·of·<span class="mc">T</span>o-day<br /> + —<span class="mc">L</span>et·<span class="mc">H</span>im·<span class="mc">L</span>ook·to't,—<br /> + <span class="mc">O</span>r·<span class="mc">L</span>ikewise·<span class="mc">H</span>e·<span class="mc">M</span>ay·<span class="mc">S</span>omewhere·<span class="mc">F</span>ind<br /> + <span class="mc">L</span>ove·<span class="mc">P</span>erpetrated.<br /> +</p> + +<div style="height: 4em;"><br /><br /><br /><br /></div> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="pageviii" name="pageviii"></a>[<a href="images/008.png">img</a>]</span></p> + +<p> + <br /><!--[Blank Page]--> +</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page1" name="page1"></a>[<a href="images/009.png">img</a>]</span></p> + +<div style="height: 4em;"><br /><br /><br /><br /></div> + +<h1 style="font-variant: small-caps;"> + <span class="mc">L</span>ove <span class="mc">I</span>nstigated. +</h1> + +<p> +<span class="mc">I</span>t was a daisy bit of <span class="mc">I</span>vory. +</p> +<p> +<span class="mc">I</span>t was a curious piece of <span class="mc">W</span>orkmanship. +</p> +<p> +<span class="mc">I</span>t was carved and carved again with <span class="mc">C</span>onventional +<span class="mc">L</span>ines, which formed a <span class="mc">F</span>emale <span class="mc">H</span>ead of +<span class="mc">E</span>ast-<span class="mc">I</span>ndian <span class="mc">U</span>nexceptionableness. +</p> +<p> +<span class="mc">I</span>t seemed to <span class="mc">S</span>mile and to <span class="mc">B</span>eckon, and then to +<span class="mc">S</span>cowl repellantly—a <span class="mc">L</span>iving <span class="mc">M</span>ockery! +</p> +<p> +<span class="mc">I</span>t was <span class="mc">H</span>ateful—<span class="mc">O</span>h, so <span class="mc">H</span>ateful!—the sight +<span class="mc">O</span>f so conventional a <span class="mc">T</span>hing. +</p> +<p> +<span class="mc">A</span>nd yet there had been such a <span class="mc">L</span>onging to touch +<span class="mc">I</span>t and to <span class="mc">H</span>old <span class="mc">I</span>t in the <span class="mc">H</span>and! +</p> +<p> +<span class="mc">B</span>ut <span class="mc">S</span>ee the <span class="mc">S</span>equel. +</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page2" name="page2"></a>[<a href="images/010.png">img</a>]</span></p> + +<p> +<span class="mc">I</span>t was not an <span class="mc">I</span>dol of <span class="mc">I</span>ndia. +</p> +<p> +<span class="mc">I</span>t was the <span class="mc">C</span>arved <span class="mc">I</span>vory <span class="mc">H</span>andle of a <span class="mc">T</span>anned +<span class="mc">G</span>ingham <span class="mc">U</span>mbrella, of very <span class="mc">P</span>lebeian <span class="mc">A</span>merican +<span class="mc">M</span>anufacture. +</p> +<p> +<span class="mc">I</span>t stood in a <span class="mc">H</span>and-painted <span class="mc">C</span>hina <span class="mc">R</span>eceptacle in +<span class="mc">T</span>he long quiet <span class="mc">H</span>all, in the <span class="mc">H</span>ouse of a <span class="mc">F</span>riend. +<span class="mc">I</span>t was there when <span class="mc">I</span> <span class="mc">D</span>ined with him the <span class="mc">N</span>ight +<span class="mc">A</span>fter <span class="mc">C</span>hristmas. +</p> +<p> +<span class="mc">I</span>t <span class="mc">G</span>leamed at me with a <span class="mc">S</span>inister <span class="mc">G</span>leam of its +<span class="mc">D</span>exter <span class="mc">E</span>ye! +</p> +<p> +<span class="mc">A</span>nd it seemed to <span class="mc">S</span>mile and to <span class="mc">B</span>eckon at me +out of the <span class="mc">S</span>oft, <span class="mc">V</span>oluptuous <span class="mc">E</span>nvironment of +<span class="mc">T</span>he "<span class="mc">I</span>nner·<span class="mc">S</span>isterhood," of which it was a +<span class="mc">F</span>ellow. +</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page3" name="page3"></a>[<a href="images/011.png">img</a>]</span></p> + +<p> +<span class="mc">A</span>nd when we were seated at the <span class="mc">G</span>littering +<span class="mc">T</span>able, beautiful with <span class="mc">C</span>rystal and <span class="mc">S</span>ilver— +</p> +<p> +<span class="mc">A</span>nd <span class="mc">L</span>emonade and <span class="mc">C</span>ake— +</p> +<p> +<span class="mc">A</span>n <span class="mc">E</span>sthetic <span class="mc">B</span>anquet— +</p> +<p> +<span class="mc">I</span>t <span class="mc">C</span>hanced, by <span class="mc">M</span>erest <span class="mc">A</span>ccident, that <span class="mc">I</span> was +<span class="mc">G</span>iven a seat opposite <span class="mc">T</span>he <span class="mc">P</span>ortiered <span class="mc">A</span>rchway +which led into +</p> +<p> +<span class="mc">T</span>he <span class="mc">L</span>ong <span class="mc">Q</span>uiet <span class="mc">H</span>all, +</p> +<p> +<span class="mc">W</span>ith its <span class="mc">W</span>ine-<span class="mc">C</span>olored <span class="mc">W</span>ealth of <span class="mc">T</span>urkish-<span class="mc">B</span>ath +<span class="mc">T</span>oweling thrown back. +</p> +<p> +<span class="mc">A</span>nd as we <span class="mc">S</span>at <span class="mc">B</span>eneath the <span class="mc">I</span>ridescent <span class="mc">G</span>low +<span class="mc">O</span>f the <span class="mc">K</span>eely-<span class="mc">M</span>otor +</p> +<p> +<span class="mc">E</span>lectric <span class="mc">L</span>amp, which +</p> +<p> +<span class="mc">G</span>listened and <span class="mc">S</span>himmered <span class="mc">I</span>ts <span class="mc">S</span>tained-<span class="mc">G</span>lass + +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page4" name="page4"></a>[<a href="images/012.png">img</a>]</span> + +<span class="mc">I</span>ridescence on all about it, and gave its hue to +<span class="mc">T</span>he <span class="mc">I</span>nvigorating <span class="mc">B</span>everage, we heeded not the +<span class="mc">E</span>lemental war waging upon the <span class="mc">Q</span>ueen <span class="mc">A</span>nne +<span class="mc">E</span>xterior of the <span class="mc">H</span>ospitable <span class="mc">M</span>ansion of my +<span class="mc">F</span>riend. +</p> +<p> +<span class="mc">A</span>nd when we were left to our <span class="mc">C</span>offee and our +<span class="mc">P</span>ipes, we talked of <span class="mc">D</span>aggers, and <span class="mc">E</span>pitaphs, +and <span class="mc">T</span>ombs! +</p> +<p> +<span class="mc">A</span>nd as he told me in a <span class="mc">M</span>ysterious <span class="mc">W</span>hisper the +<span class="mc">S</span>tory of the <span class="mc">M</span>alay <span class="mc">D</span>agger, "<span class="mc">G</span>uiltless of all +<span class="mc">G</span>uile," the <span class="mc">V</span>itreous <span class="mc">E</span>ye of that <span class="mc">Q</span>uaintly +<span class="mc">C</span>arved <span class="mc">O</span>dalisque—for such my fevered fancy +<span class="mc">P</span>ictured it—was ever <span class="mc">G</span>laring at me with its +<span class="mc">S</span>inister <span class="mc">G</span>lare! +</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page5" name="page5"></a>[<a href="images/013.png">img</a>]</span></p> + +<p> +<span class="mc">A</span>nd when our <span class="mc">G</span>hostly <span class="mc">T</span>alk was <span class="mc">I</span>nterrupted +<span class="mc">B</span>y the <span class="mc">E</span>ntrance of other <span class="mc">G</span>uests, <span class="mc">I</span> <span class="mc">Q</span>uaffed +<span class="mc">A</span>nother <span class="mc">C</span>rystal <span class="mc">G</span>oblet of <span class="mc">M</span>y <span class="mc">F</span>riend's <span class="mc">B</span>rain-<span class="mc">M</span>addening +<span class="mc">C</span>oncoction, and casting a long, lingering +<span class="mc">L</span>ook at the <span class="mc">P</span>ersian <span class="mc">R</span>ug which hid the +<span class="mc">G</span>raeco-<span class="mc">R</span>omanesque <span class="mc">A</span>rchitecture of the vaulted +<span class="mc">C</span>eiling, <span class="mc">I</span> passed from the <span class="mc">G</span>othic <span class="mc">P</span>ortals +of this <span class="mc">E</span>sthetic <span class="mc">S</span>hrine into the outer darkness—beyond +the glamour of the <span class="mc">S</span>even <span class="mc">L</span>amps +of <span class="mc">A</span>rchitecture. +</p> +<p> +<span class="mc">B</span>ut,—<span class="mc">O</span>h <span class="mc">F</span>itful <span class="mc">F</span>ate!—as <span class="mc">I</span> passed though +<span class="mc">T</span>he <span class="mc">L</span>ong, <span class="mc">Q</span>uiet <span class="mc">H</span>all and by the wine-colored +<span class="mc">P</span>lush <span class="mc">C</span>orner from whose <span class="mc">V</span>oluptuous <span class="mc">S</span>hadow +<span class="mc">T</span>he <span class="mc">S</span>inister-<span class="mc">E</span>yed, <span class="mc">C</span>arved-<span class="mc">I</span>vory-<span class="mc">H</span>andle <span class="mc">O</span>dalisque + +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page6" name="page6"></a>[<a href="images/014.png">img</a>]</span> + + cast an <span class="mc">A</span>lluring, <span class="mc">A</span>ppealing <span class="mc">L</span>ook toward +<span class="mc">M</span>e, and all <span class="mc">U</span>nconsciously, <span class="mc">U</span>nintentionally, +and <span class="mc">U</span>nresistingly <span class="mc">I</span> <span class="mc">T</span>ook it from its <span class="mc">H</span>and-<span class="mc">P</span>ainted +<span class="mc">C</span>hina <span class="mc">R</span>eceptacle, and closing the +<span class="mc">H</span>eavy doors of <span class="mc">R</span>olled, <span class="mc">C</span>athedral <span class="mc">P</span>late <span class="mc">G</span>lass +<span class="mc">A</span>fter me, <span class="mc">I</span> <span class="mc">U</span>nfurled its <span class="mc">S</span>un-<span class="mc">T</span>anned <span class="mc">G</span>ingham +<span class="mc">F</span>olds to the aforementioned warring elements. +<span class="mc">A</span>nd as <span class="mc">I</span> <span class="mc">W</span>ended my <span class="mc">D</span>esolate <span class="mc">W</span>ay to the +<span class="mc">S</span>ainted <span class="mc">S</span>hrine of <span class="mc">P</span>endennis, my <span class="mc">S</span>eething +<span class="mc">B</span>rain <span class="mc">P</span>eopled the <span class="mc">V</span>alley of <span class="mc">U</span>nrest with <span class="mc">E</span>lfs, +<span class="mc">A</span>nd <span class="mc">R</span>avens and <span class="mc">B</span>rahman <span class="mc">G</span>ods, and the <span class="mc">D</span>agger +whose blood-stain belonged to a <span class="mc">V</span>enetian <span class="mc">D</span>uke. +<span class="mc">W</span>hen <span class="mc">I</span> <span class="mc">P</span>resently <span class="mc">E</span>ntered the <span class="mc">R</span>esounding +<span class="mc">C</span>loisters of the <span class="mc">O</span>rder of <span class="mc">ST. PENDENNIS</span>—when + +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page7" name="page7"></a>[<a href="images/015.png">img</a>]</span> + + <span class="mc">I</span> entered this "<span class="mc">H</span>ouse without a <span class="mc">W</span>oman" +<span class="mc">I</span> sought the seclusion of a dark, <span class="mc">W</span>ine-<span class="mc">C</span>olored, +<span class="mc">P</span>lush-<span class="mc">L</span>ined <span class="mc">C</span>ell, and carelessly placing the +<span class="mc">T</span>anned <span class="mc">G</span>ingham, <span class="mc">V</span>egetable-<span class="mc">I</span>vory-handled <span class="mc">U</span>mbrella +on the <span class="mc">E</span>ighteenth <span class="mc">C</span>entury <span class="mc">H</span>earth before +me, +</p> +<p> +<span class="mc">I</span> threw my mentally-exhausted frame into a +a <span class="mc">M</span>assive, <span class="mc">D</span>amask-covered <span class="mc">C</span>hair with heavily-carved +<span class="mc">A</span>rms of highly-polished <span class="mc">O</span>ak, and sounded +the <span class="mc">T</span>iny, <span class="mc">T</span>intinnabulating <span class="mc">C</span>all-<span class="mc">B</span>ell for +<span class="mc">S</span>omething to <span class="mc">C</span>ounteract the <span class="mc">E</span>ffects of the +<span class="mc">T</span>oo-exhilerating <span class="mc">P</span>otables of my <span class="mc">F</span>riend, and +his no less <span class="mc">H</span>arrowing <span class="mc">S</span>tories! +</p> +<p> +<span class="mc">B</span>ut while <span class="mc">I</span> thus sat waiting, with my feet to + +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page8" name="page8"></a>[<a href="images/016.png">img</a>]</span> + +<span class="mc">T</span>he <span class="mc">C</span>omfortable <span class="mc">F</span>ire, all at once my <span class="mc">G</span>aze +was <span class="mc">U</span>nconsciously, <span class="mc">U</span>nintentionally and <span class="mc">U</span>nresistingly +<span class="mc">T</span>ransfixed by the <span class="mc">S</span>inister <span class="mc">G</span>lance of +<span class="mc">T</span>he <span class="mc">D</span>exter <span class="mc">E</span>ye of the <span class="mc">C</span>arved-<span class="mc">I</span>vory <span class="mc">O</span>dalisque. +</p> +<p> +<span class="mc">A</span>nd as <span class="mc">I</span> sat there in the <span class="mc">T</span>wilight <span class="mc">G</span>lare of +the <span class="mc">S</span>lowly-<span class="mc">C</span>onsuming <span class="mc">E</span>mbers on the <span class="mc">W</span>ide +and <span class="mc">D</span>eep, <span class="mc">O</span>ld-<span class="mc">F</span>ashioned, <span class="mc">O</span>pen <span class="mc">F</span>ire-place, +with <span class="mc">L</span>acquered-<span class="mc">B</span>rass <span class="mc">F</span>ire-<span class="mc">D</span>ogs—beneath the +<span class="mc">S</span>pell of those <span class="mc">S</span>tealthy, <span class="mc">R</span>oguish <span class="mc">G</span>lances, <span class="mc">I</span>, +against <span class="mc">M</span>y <span class="mc">W</span>ish and <span class="mc">W</span>ill, was led to <span class="mc">T</span>hink of +<span class="mc">T</span>he dark, strange and weirdly grotesque things +of which <span class="mc">M</span>y <span class="mc">F</span>riend had <span class="mc">T</span>old me. +</p> +<p> +<span class="mc">A</span>nd finally, as under the <span class="mc">S</span>trange <span class="mc">F</span>ascination + +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page9" name="page9"></a>[<a href="images/017.png">img</a>]</span> + +of the <span class="mc">V</span>itreous <span class="mc">D</span>exter and <span class="mc">S</span>inister <span class="mc">E</span>yes of +<span class="mc">T</span>he <span class="mc">C</span>arved-<span class="mc">I</span>vory <span class="mc">O</span>dalisque, which <span class="mc">H</span>eld me +<span class="mc">S</span>pell-<span class="mc">B</span>ound, <span class="mc">I</span> <span class="mc">L</span>earned from the <span class="mc">T</span>hin, <span class="mc">C</span>urled +<span class="mc">L</span>ips of the said <span class="mc">C</span>arved-<span class="mc">I</span>vory <span class="mc">O</span>dalisque its +<span class="mc">O</span>wn <span class="mc">S</span>tory. +</p> +<p> +<span class="mc">I</span>t was not <span class="mc">C</span>reated by <span class="mc">L</span>ove. +</p> +<p> +<span class="mc">N</span>or was it in <span class="mc">I</span>tself the <span class="mc">E</span>mbodiment of <span class="mc">L</span>ove. +<span class="mc">B</span>ut it <span class="mc">B</span>ore in one of its <span class="mc">F</span>lexible <span class="mc">R</span>ibs the +<span class="mc">T</span>angible <span class="mc">E</span>vidence of the <span class="mc">A</span>dhesive <span class="mc">Q</span>ualities +of a <span class="mc">L</span>ove <span class="mc">D</span>riven <span class="mc">B</span>ack upon itself,—the <span class="mc">C</span>oncentration +of an <span class="mc">O</span>therwise <span class="mc">W</span>asted <span class="mc">F</span>orce. +</p> +<p> +<span class="mc">L</span>ess than a <span class="mc">T</span>housand <span class="mc">Y</span>ears ago, a <span class="mc">D</span>udish +<span class="mc">R</span>oderick <span class="mc">D</span>hu stood <span class="mc">F</span>lustrated with <span class="mc">F</span>iery <span class="mc">I</span>ndignation, + +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page10" name="page10"></a>[<a href="images/018.png">img</a>]</span> + + face to face with a <span class="mc">M</span>aiden <span class="mc">P</span>riestess—a +<span class="mc">P</span>rideful, <span class="mc">H</span>aughty <span class="mc">W</span>oman! +</p> +<p> +<span class="mc">I</span>t was on the <span class="mc">R</span>ue <span class="mc">Q</span>uatrieme. <span class="mc">I</span>t was at the +<span class="mc">I</span>ntersection of two great <span class="mc">T</span>horoughfares. +</p> +<p> +<span class="mc">T</span>he <span class="mc">C</span>louds had <span class="mc">P</span>arted their <span class="mc">B</span>angs in the +<span class="mc">M</span>iddle, and were <span class="mc">S</span>himmering their <span class="mc">C</span>rystal +<span class="mc">D</span>rops of <span class="mc">D</span>istilled <span class="mc">O</span>cean in torrental volume +upon the <span class="mc">L</span>uckless <span class="mc">W</span>ayfarers. +</p> +<p> +<span class="mc">I</span>t chanced that the <span class="mc">P</span>rideful <span class="mc">M</span>aiden <span class="mc">P</span>riestess +<span class="mc">W</span>as <span class="mc">H</span>urrying adown the <span class="mc">B</span>oulevard with the +<span class="mc">S</span>elf-same <span class="mc">C</span>arved-<span class="mc">I</span>vory-<span class="mc">H</span>andled <span class="mc">U</span>mbrella +<span class="mc">C</span>losely <span class="mc">C</span>lasped in <span class="mc">H</span>er <span class="mc">D</span>elicate <span class="mc">M</span>arie <span class="mc">A</span>ntoinette +fingers. <span class="mc">S</span>he was thus <span class="mc">E</span>nsconced <span class="mc">B</span>ehind +the <span class="mc">S</span>heltering <span class="mc">T</span>autness of the <span class="mc">S</span>tout-ribbed + +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page11" name="page11"></a>[<a href="images/019.png">img</a>]</span> + +<span class="mc">G</span>ingham <span class="mc">U</span>mbrella <span class="mc">W</span>ith the <span class="mc">C</span>arved-<span class="mc">I</span>vory <span class="mc">H</span>andle, +when she passed out of the <span class="mc">S</span>hadow of +<span class="mc">T</span>he <span class="mc">M</span>assive <span class="mc">M</span>arble <span class="mc">E</span>difice of <span class="mc">G</span>othic <span class="mc">A</span>rchitecture +and turned into the <span class="mc">R</span>ue de la <span class="mc">C</span>hataigne +—and <span class="mc">U</span>nconsciously, <span class="mc">U</span>nintentionally and <span class="mc">U</span>nresistingly +<span class="mc">P</span>unched a <span class="mc">T</span>ear out of the <span class="mc">D</span>exter +<span class="mc">E</span>ye of the <span class="mc">R</span>esistless <span class="mc">R</span>oderick <span class="mc">D</span>hu! +</p> +<p> +<span class="mc">I</span> am sure that <span class="mc">C</span>arved-<span class="mc">I</span>vory, <span class="mc">O</span>ggling <span class="mc">O</span>dalisque +was to <span class="mc">B</span>lame! <span class="mc">I</span> am sure that it <span class="mc">W</span>antonly +<span class="mc">D</span>rove the <span class="mc">S</span>pare <span class="mc">R</span>ib of the <span class="mc">S</span>tout <span class="mc">G</span>ingham +<span class="mc">U</span>mbrella to the <span class="mc">A</span>ccomplishment of its own +<span class="mc">F</span>oul <span class="mc">P</span>urpose! +</p> +<p> +<span class="mc">T</span>he <span class="mc">P</span>rideful <span class="mc">M</span>aiden <span class="mc">P</span>riestess had great <span class="mc">C</span>ommiseration +for the <span class="mc">A</span>rdent <span class="mc">R</span>oderick. +</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page12" name="page12"></a>[<a href="images/020.png">img</a>]</span></p> + +<p> +<span class="mc">S</span>he <span class="mc">F</span>rankly <span class="mc">T</span>old him so. +</p> +<p> +<span class="mc">A</span>nd in a <span class="mc">T</span>acit but <span class="mc">P</span>otent—<span class="mc">O</span>h, so <span class="mc">P</span>otent— +<span class="mc">W</span>ay, bade him, if he liked, to go with her to +her <span class="mc">S</span>hrine and there have his <span class="mc">W</span>eeping <span class="mc">W</span>ounds +<span class="mc">B</span>ound up with "a <span class="mc">B</span>it of <span class="mc">E</span>ast <span class="mc">I</span>ndia <span class="mc">S</span>ilk,"—at +her <span class="mc">S</span>hrine, whose <span class="mc">D</span>oors should ever be <span class="mc">O</span>pen +to <span class="mc">H</span>im. +</p> +<p> +<span class="mc">O</span>h! <span class="mc">C</span>hance, <span class="mc">F</span>ortuitous <span class="mc">C</span>hance! <span class="mc">H</span>ow many +<span class="mc">F</span>ollowers of <span class="mc">S</span>t. <span class="mc">P</span>endennis are <span class="mc">A</span>nnually <span class="mc">E</span>nsnared +in thy <span class="mc">N</span>ame! +</p> +<p> +<span class="mc">E</span>re <span class="mc">L</span>ong,—within a <span class="mc">M</span>onth, a <span class="mc">L</span>ittle <span class="mc">M</span>onth—the +<span class="mc">D</span>udish <span class="mc">R</span>oderick <span class="mc">D</span>hu was a cringing devotee +at the <span class="mc">V</span>estal <span class="mc">S</span>hrine of the <span class="mc">M</span>aiden <span class="mc">P</span>riestess, +<span class="mc">P</span>raying that she should receive all his <span class="mc">S</span>uppliant + +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page13" name="page13"></a>[<a href="images/021.png">img</a>]</span> + + <span class="mc">L</span>ove, and "right smart" of his devotion. +<span class="mc">H</span>e would never leave <span class="mc">H</span>er <span class="mc">S</span>ide. <span class="mc">H</span>e would +<span class="mc">N</span>ever, never <span class="mc">S</span>mile on other <span class="mc">M</span>aidens. <span class="mc">H</span>e +would <span class="mc">S</span>acrifice each <span class="mc">T</span>rusted and <span class="mc">T</span>rusting +<span class="mc">F</span>riend and <span class="mc">C</span>reditor. <span class="mc">S</span>he <span class="mc">MUST</span> receive his +<span class="mc">H</span>eart and <span class="mc">H</span>and, and his <span class="mc">P</span>artially-<span class="mc">E</span>clipsed +<span class="mc">O</span>ccular! +</p> +<p> +<span class="mc">E</span>lse, where, all the while, was all this +<span class="mc">W</span>ealth of <span class="mc">P</span>assionate <span class="mc">L</span>ove to go to—<span class="mc">I</span>f it was +<span class="mc">S</span>purned and <span class="mc">S</span>ent <span class="mc">B</span>ack to its <span class="mc">D</span>onor? <span class="mc">W</span>ho +would have it <span class="mc">S</span>econd-<span class="mc">H</span>anded? +</p> +<p> +<span class="mc">T</span>his was, indeed, a <span class="mc">P</span>oser. +</p> +<p> +<span class="mc">I</span>t was <span class="mc">U</span>nanswerable! +</p> +<p> +<span class="mc">S</span>he did not <span class="mc">A</span>ttempt to <span class="mc">A</span>nswer it. <span class="mc">S</span>he only + +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page14" name="page14"></a>[<a href="images/022.png">img</a>]</span> + +<span class="mc">C</span>onsidered the <span class="mc">F</span>irst <span class="mc">P</span>roposition. +</p> +<p> +<span class="mc">A</span>nd she <span class="mc">T</span>hought of the <span class="mc">C</span>ruel, <span class="mc">C</span>ruel <span class="mc">D</span>eed +<span class="mc">W</span>hich she had been <span class="mc">L</span>ed by the <span class="mc">V</span>itreous-<span class="mc">E</span>yed +<span class="mc">O</span>dalisque of <span class="mc">C</span>arved-<span class="mc">I</span>vory to <span class="mc">U</span>nintentionally, +<span class="mc">U</span>nconsciously, and <span class="mc">U</span>nresistingly <span class="mc">P</span>erpetrate +<span class="mc">U</span>pon <span class="mc">H</span>im; <span class="mc">A</span>nd—to cut a <span class="mc">S</span>hort <span class="mc">S</span>tory shorter—she +cast her '<span class="mc">M</span>ind's <span class="mc">E</span>ye, <span class="mc">H</span>oratio,' upon his +<span class="mc">Q</span>ueen <span class="mc">A</span>nne <span class="mc">M</span>ansion <span class="mc">F</span>ront, and <span class="mc">D</span>etermined +to <span class="mc">B</span>estow upon the <span class="mc">I</span>njured <span class="mc">I</span>nnocent what remained—after +<span class="mc">F</span>ive <span class="mc">S</span>easons—of the <span class="mc">W</span>ealth +of <span class="mc">H</span>er <span class="mc">Y</span>oung <span class="mc">L</span>ove. +</p> +<p class="center"> + —<span class="mc">T</span>hus <span class="mc">S</span>imply is <span class="mc">L</span>ove <span class="mc">I</span>nstigated.— +</p> +<p> +<span class="mc">H</span>ad the <span class="mc">M</span>aiden <span class="mc">P</span>rincess <span class="mc">R</span>efused him her +<span class="mc">S</span>ilver-<span class="mc">T</span>inged <span class="mc">L</span>ove—<span class="mc">H</span>ad she <span class="mc">S</span>purned and + +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page15" name="page15"></a>[<a href="images/023.png">img</a>]</span> + +<span class="mc">T</span>hrown back upon his <span class="mc">H</span>ands his <span class="mc">P</span>assion torn +<span class="mc">T</span>o <span class="mc">T</span>atters—he <span class="mc">M</span>ight <span class="mc">H</span>ave <span class="mc">P</span>erpetuated his +<span class="mc">L</span>ove by <span class="mc">W</span>riting "a <span class="mc">B</span>ook <span class="mc">W</span>ithout a <span class="mc">W</span>oman," or +<span class="mc">B</span>etter still, he <span class="mc">M</span>ight <span class="mc">H</span>ave <span class="mc">S</span>pent the <span class="mc">F</span>orce +of his <span class="mc">E</span>xtravagant <span class="mc">P</span>assion by <span class="mc">E</span>xecuting, in +<span class="mc">E</span>ndless number and variety, <span class="mc">P</span>atent <span class="mc">I</span>vory-handled +<span class="mc">U</span>mbrellas, <span class="mc">Q</span>uaintly <span class="mc">C</span>arved in the <span class="mc">V</span>erisimility +of the <span class="mc">O</span>ggling <span class="mc">O</span>dalisque, which <span class="mc">I</span>mpelled +the <span class="mc">H</span>and that <span class="mc">I</span>nstigated his <span class="mc">L</span>ove by <span class="mc">P</span>eeling +his <span class="mc">D</span>exter <span class="mc">E</span>ye. +</p> +<p> +<span class="mc">B</span>ut, <span class="mc">A</span>las! <span class="mc">T</span>he <span class="mc">T</span>houghtless <span class="mc">P</span>air of <span class="mc">I</span>nnocents +did not <span class="mc">C</span>onsider that their <span class="mc">L</span>ove, being <span class="mc">M</span>utual, +<span class="mc">M</span>ust, by the <span class="mc">D</span>ecree of <span class="mc">S</span>t. <span class="mc">D</span>ouglass, die—<span class="mc">U</span>nperpetuated—with +<span class="mc">T</span>hem! +</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page16" name="page16"></a>[<a href="images/024.png">img</a>]</span></p> + +<p> +<span class="mc">O</span>r, if they <span class="mc">W</span>eighed the <span class="mc">D</span>ire <span class="mc">D</span>ecree in the +<span class="mc">B</span>alances of their <span class="mc">S</span>ocial <span class="mc">P</span>hilosophy, <span class="mc">I</span> <span class="mc">D</span>oubt +<span class="mc">N</span>ot that they <span class="mc">C</span>onsidered that if they <span class="mc">P</span>erpetuated +their <span class="mc">L</span>ove the <span class="mc">L</span>ength of their <span class="mc">N</span>atural +<span class="mc">L</span>ives they <span class="mc">W</span>ould have <span class="mc">A</span>ccomplished <span class="mc">E</span>nough. +<span class="mc">A</span>nd, methinks their <span class="mc">H</span>eads were <span class="mc">E</span>quipoised. +<span class="mc">T</span>his <span class="mc">W</span>ork-a-<span class="mc">D</span>ay <span class="mc">W</span>orld has all the <span class="mc">D</span>udish +<span class="mc">B</span>ooklets and <span class="mc">C</span>arved-<span class="mc">I</span>vory <span class="mc">D</span>agger and <span class="mc">U</span>mbrella +<span class="mc">H</span>andles that it can <span class="mc">E</span>asily <span class="mc">C</span>arry. <span class="mc">L</span>et not +<span class="mc">A</span>nother <span class="mc">B</span>ooklet break <span class="mc">O</span>ld <span class="mc">A</span>tlas' <span class="mc">B</span>ack. +</p> +<p> +<span class="mc">A</span>nd "<span class="mc">D</span>ouglass, <span class="mc">O</span> <span class="mc">D</span>ouglass, <span class="mc">T</span>ender and <span class="mc">T</span>rue," +<span class="mc">C</span>arve for us no more <span class="mc">H</span>eathen <span class="mc">G</span>ods of <span class="mc">L</span>ove. +<span class="mc">E</span>'en now <span class="mc">T</span>heir <span class="mc">O</span>ccupation's <span class="mc">G</span>one. +</p> +<p> +<span class="mc">T</span>he <span class="mc">S</span>tar-<span class="mc">E</span>yed <span class="mc">G</span>oddess that <span class="mc">S</span>hines <span class="mc">F</span>orth + +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page17" name="page17"></a>[<a href="images/025.png">img</a>]</span> + +<span class="mc">F</span>rom the <span class="mc">G</span>littering <span class="mc">S</span>urface of the <span class="mc">A</span>lmighty +<span class="mc">D</span>ollar is <span class="mc">G</span>oddess <span class="mc">P</span>otent enough to <span class="mc">P</span>erpetuate +the <span class="mc">L</span>ove of this <span class="mc">D</span>ay and <span class="mc">G</span>eneration, even as +by her <span class="mc">I</span>nfluence often is +</p> +<p class="center"> + <span class="mc">L</span>ove <span class="mc">I</span>nstigated. +</p> + +<p> <br /></p> + +<p> +<span class="mc">B</span>ut the <span class="mc">Q</span>uaintly <span class="mc">C</span>arved <span class="mc">V</span>egetable-<span class="mc">I</span>vory <span class="mc">O</span>dalisque +<span class="mc">H</span>andle of the <span class="mc">T</span>anned-<span class="mc">G</span>ingham <span class="mc">U</span>mbrella +that <span class="mc">R</span>ested in the <span class="mc">H</span>and-<span class="mc">P</span>ainted <span class="mc">C</span>hina <span class="mc">R</span>eceptacle +that <span class="mc">S</span>tood in the <span class="mc">V</span>oluptuous <span class="mc">E</span>nvironment +of the <span class="mc">W</span>ine-<span class="mc">C</span>olored <span class="mc">P</span>lush <span class="mc">C</span>orner of +the <span class="mc">L</span>ong, <span class="mc">Q</span>uiet <span class="mc">H</span>all of the <span class="mc">H</span>ouse of a <span class="mc">F</span>riend +<span class="mc">W</span>here <span class="mc">I</span> <span class="mc">S</span>upped the <span class="mc">N</span>ight after <span class="mc">C</span>hristmas—[<span class="mc">W</span>as +this the <span class="mc">H</span>ouse that <span class="mc">Z</span>ack <span class="mc">B</span>uilt?]—<span class="mc">I</span>t +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page18" name="page18"></a>[<a href="images/026.png">img</a>]</span> + +still <span class="mc">G</span>lared at me with a <span class="mc">S</span>inister <span class="mc">G</span>leam of +its <span class="mc">D</span>exter <span class="mc">E</span>ye as it <span class="mc">O</span>ggled me from its <span class="mc">P</span>lace +on the <span class="mc">H</span>earth of the <span class="mc">W</span>ine-<span class="mc">S</span>cented <span class="mc">C</span>ell—<span class="mc">P</span>lush-<span class="mc">L</span>ined +<span class="mc">C</span>ell—in the <span class="mc">C</span>loistered <span class="mc">P</span>recincts +of <span class="mc">S</span>aint <span class="mc">P</span>endennis. +</p> + +<p> <br /></p> + +<p> +<span class="mc">I</span>t seemed to <span class="mc">S</span>mile a <span class="mc">R</span>eady, <span class="mc">G</span>arrulous <span class="mc">A</span>ssent +to all that which <span class="mc">I</span> have <span class="mc">S</span>aid. +</p> +<p> +<span class="mc">T</span>hese <span class="mc">W</span>ords it <span class="mc">S</span>eemed to <span class="mc">M</span>urmur: +</p> +<p> +<span class="mc">O</span>h! <span class="mc">T</span>hou <span class="mc">U</span>nmitigated <span class="mc">U</span>mbrella-<span class="mc">T</span>heif! <span class="mc">R</span>eturn +<span class="mc">M</span>e to the home of those whose <span class="mc">L</span>ove <span class="mc">I</span> <span class="mc">I</span>nstigated, +whose <span class="mc">H</span>appy <span class="mc">H</span>ousehold <span class="mc">I</span> am <span class="mc">R</span>esponsible for. +<span class="mc">W</span>ake ye! <span class="mc">S</span>leeping <span class="mc">S</span>on of <span class="mc">P</span>endennis, or by the +<span class="mc">G</span>oddess <span class="mc">S</span>i[l]va, <span class="mc">I</span> will <span class="mc">E</span>xecute <span class="mc">D</span>ire <span class="mc">V</span>engeance + +<span class="pagenum"><a id="page19" name="page19"></a>[<a href="images/027.png">img</a>]</span> + +<span class="mc">U</span>pon you! +</p> +<p> +<span class="mc">E</span>ven as <span class="mc">I</span> once was the <span class="mc">I</span>nstigator of <span class="mc">L</span>ove, upon +<span class="mc">Y</span>ou may be, +</p> +<p class="center"> + <span class="mc">L</span>ove <span class="mc">I</span>nstigated! +</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page20" name="page20"></a>[<a href="images/028.png">img</a>]</span></p> + +<p> + <!--[Blank Page]--> +</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="page21" name="page21"></a>[<a href="images/029.png">img</a>]</span></p> + +<div class="figure"> +<a href="images/029.png"><img src="images/029.png" width="300" alt="umbrella handle" /></a> +</div> + + +<div style="height: 6em;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></div> + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Love Instigated, by Douglass Sherley + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LOVE INSTIGATED *** + +***** This file should be named 19122-h.htm or 19122-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files 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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 at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Love Instigated + The Story of a Carved Ivory Umbrella Handle + +Author: Douglass Sherley + +Release Date: August 25, 2006 [EBook #19122] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LOVE INSTIGATED *** + + + + +Produced by David Garcia and the Online Distributed +Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was +produced from images generously made available by The +Kentuckiana Digital Library) + + + + + +[Illustration] + + + + + LOVE + INSTIGATED + + BY + BELL THE CAT SURLY + of the PENDENNIS CLUB + + + THE STORY + OF A + CARVED IVORY UMBRELLA HANDLE. + + + + "The Man that Plants Cabbages Imitates God."--Dobson's Choice. + + + + + + + + Caveat Filed, + By CURRY & DEARING, Publishers, + Louisville, Ky. + + + + + + + + + LOVE PERPETUATED:-- + --The Story of a Dagger. + + By Douglass Sherley, + + WHO WROTE + + --THE STORY OF A PICTURE.-- + + * * * * * + + An Edition de Luxe [special] net, $10.00. Limited number. Ninety-nine + copies--signed by the Author. Right reserved to advance price at any + time. Subscriptions received now. Popular Edition--a Christmas Card + Booklet [in a box], $1.00. Liberal Discount to the Trade. + + Edition de Luxe ready December Fifteenth. + + Popular Edition ready December First. + + + John P. Morton and Company. + Main St., Louisville, Ky. + + + + + + + + + Special.Dedication + to + the.Members.of.the.Sherley.Club + of + Little.:.Britain: + + --Despair.ye.not.at.all-- + + E'en.by.so.Small.a.Thing.as.this.Poor.Booklet + May.Your + Loves.be.Instigated! + + + + + + + + + Dedicated + To.Each.Single.Son.of.St..Pendennis + Who.Worships.not.at.the.Shrine.of + The.Maiden.Priestess.of.To-day + --Let.Him.Look.to't,-- + Or.Likewise.He.May.Somewhere.Find + Love.Perpetrated. + + + + + + + + + Love Instigated. + + + +It was a daisy bit of Ivory. + +It was a curious piece of Workmanship. + +It was carved and carved again with Conventional Lines, which formed +a Female Head of East-Indian Unexceptionableness. + +It seemed to Smile and to Beckon, and then to Scowl repellantly--a +Living Mockery! + +It was Hateful--Oh, so Hateful!--the sight Of so conventional a Thing. + +And yet there had been such a Longing to touch It and to Hold It in the +Hand! + +But See the Sequel. + +It was not an Idol of India. + +It was the Carved Ivory Handle of a Tanned Gingham Umbrella, of very +Plebeian American Manufacture. + +It stood in a Hand-painted China Receptacle in The long quiet Hall, in +the House of a Friend. It was there when I Dined with him the Night +After Christmas. + +It Gleamed at me with a Sinister Gleam of its Dexter Eye! + +And it seemed to Smile and to Beckon at me out of the Soft, Voluptuous +Environment of The "Inner.Sisterhood," of which it was a Fellow. + +And when we were seated at the Glittering Table, beautiful with Crystal +and Silver-- + +And Lemonade and Cake-- + +An Esthetic Banquet-- + +It Chanced, by Merest Accident, that I was Given a seat opposite The +Portiered Archway which led into + +The Long Quiet Hall, + +With its Wine-Colored Wealth of Turkish-Bath Toweling thrown back. + +And as we Sat Beneath the Iridescent Glow Of the Keely-Motor + +Electric Lamp, which + +Glistened and Shimmered Its Stained-Glass Iridescence on all about +it, and gave its hue to The Invigorating Beverage, we heeded not the +Elemental war waging upon the Queen Anne Exterior of the Hospitable +Mansion of my Friend. + +And when we were left to our Coffee and our Pipes, we talked of Daggers, +and Epitaphs, and Tombs! + +And as he told me in a Mysterious Whisper the Story of the Malay Dagger, +"Guiltless of all Guile," the Vitreous Eye of that Quaintly Carved +Odalisque--for such my fevered fancy Pictured it--was ever Glaring at +me with its Sinister Glare! + +And when our Ghostly Talk was Interrupted By the Entrance of other +Guests, I Quaffed Another Crystal Goblet of My Friend's Brain-Maddening +Concoction, and casting a long, lingering Look at the Persian Rug which +hid the Graeco-Romanesque Architecture of the vaulted Ceiling, I passed +from the Gothic Portals of this Esthetic Shrine into the outer +darkness--beyond the glamour of the Seven Lamps of Architecture. + +But,--Oh Fitful Fate!--as I passed though The Long, Quiet Hall and +by the wine-colored Plush Corner from whose Voluptuous Shadow The +Sinister-Eyed, Carved-Ivory-Handle Odalisque cast an Alluring, +Appealing Look toward Me, and all Unconsciously, Unintentionally, and +Unresistingly I Took it from its Hand-Painted China Receptacle, and +closing the Heavy doors of Rolled, Cathedral Plate Glass After me, +I Unfurled its Sun-Tanned Gingham Folds to the aforementioned warring +elements. And as I Wended my Desolate Way to the Sainted Shrine of +Pendennis, my Seething Brain Peopled the Valley of Unrest with Elfs, +And Ravens and Brahman Gods, and the Dagger whose blood-stain belonged +to a Venetian Duke. When I Presently Entered the Resounding Cloisters of +the Order of ST. PENDENNIS--when I entered this "House without a Woman" +I sought the seclusion of a dark, Wine-Colored, Plush-Lined Cell, and +carelessly placing the Tanned Gingham, Vegetable-Ivory-handled Umbrella +on the Eighteenth Century Hearth before me, + +I threw my mentally-exhausted frame into a a Massive, Damask-covered +Chair with heavily-carved Arms of highly-polished Oak, and sounded the +Tiny, Tintinnabulating Call-Bell for Something to Counteract the Effects +of the Too-exhilerating Potables of my Friend, and his no less Harrowing +Stories! + +But while I thus sat waiting, with my feet to The Comfortable Fire, all +at once my Gaze was Unconsciously, Unintentionally and Unresistingly +Transfixed by the Sinister Glance of The Dexter Eye of the Carved-Ivory +Odalisque. + +And as I sat there in the Twilight Glare of the Slowly-Consuming +Embers on the Wide and Deep, Old-Fashioned, Open Fire-place, with +Lacquered-Brass Fire-Dogs--beneath the Spell of those Stealthy, Roguish +Glances, I, against My Wish and Will, was led to Think of The dark, +strange and weirdly grotesque things of which My Friend had Told me. + +And finally, as under the Strange Fascination of the Vitreous Dexter and +Sinister Eyes of The Carved-Ivory Odalisque, which Held me Spell-Bound, +I Learned from the Thin, Curled Lips of the said Carved-Ivory Odalisque +its Own Story. + +It was not Created by Love. + +Nor was it in Itself the Embodiment of Love. But it Bore in one of its +Flexible Ribs the Tangible Evidence of the Adhesive Qualities of a Love +Driven Back upon itself,--the Concentration of an Otherwise Wasted +Force. + +Less than a Thousand Years ago, a Dudish Roderick Dhu stood Flustrated +with Fiery Indignation, face to face with a Maiden Priestess--a +Prideful, Haughty Woman! + +It was on the Rue Quatrieme. It was at the Intersection of two great +Thoroughfares. + +The Clouds had Parted their Bangs in the Middle, and were Shimmering +their Crystal Drops of Distilled Ocean in torrental volume upon the +Luckless Wayfarers. + +It chanced that the Prideful Maiden Priestess Was Hurrying adown the +Boulevard with the Self-same Carved-Ivory-Handled Umbrella Closely +Clasped in Her Delicate Marie Antoinette fingers. She was thus Ensconced +Behind the Sheltering Tautness of the Stout-ribbed Gingham Umbrella +With the Carved-Ivory Handle, when she passed out of the Shadow of The +Massive Marble Edifice of Gothic Architecture and turned into the Rue +de la Chataigne--and Unconsciously, Unintentionally and Unresistingly +Punched a Tear out of the Dexter Eye of the Resistless Roderick Dhu! + +I am sure that Carved-Ivory, Oggling Odalisque was to Blame! I am sure +that it Wantonly Drove the Spare Rib of the Stout Gingham Umbrella to +the Accomplishment of its own Foul Purpose! + +The Prideful Maiden Priestess had great Commiseration for the Ardent +Roderick. + +She Frankly Told him so. + +And in a Tacit but Potent--Oh, so Potent--Way, bade him, if he liked, +to go with her to her Shrine and there have his Weeping Wounds Bound up +with "a Bit of East India Silk,"--at her Shrine, whose Doors should ever +be Open to Him. + +Oh! Chance, Fortuitous Chance! How many Followers of St. Pendennis are +Annually Ensnared in thy Name! + +Ere Long,--within a Month, a Little Month--the Dudish Roderick Dhu was a +cringing devotee at the Vestal Shrine of the Maiden Priestess, Praying +that she should receive all his Suppliant Love, and "right smart" of his +devotion. He would never leave Her Side. He would Never, never Smile on +other Maidens. He would Sacrifice each Trusted and Trusting Friend and +Creditor. She MUST receive his Heart and Hand, and his Partially-Eclipsed +Occular! + +Else, where, all the while, was all this Wealth of Passionate Love to +go to--If it was Spurned and Sent Back to its Donor? Who would have it +Second-Handed? + +This was, indeed, a Poser. + +It was Unanswerable! + +She did not Attempt to Answer it. She only Considered the First +Proposition. + +And she Thought of the Cruel, Cruel Deed Which she had been Led +by the Vitreous-Eyed Odalisque of Carved-Ivory to Unintentionally, +Unconsciously, and Unresistingly Perpetrate Upon Him; And--to cut a +Short Story shorter--she cast her 'Mind's Eye, Horatio,' upon his Queen +Anne Mansion Front, and Determined to Bestow upon the Injured Innocent +what remained--after Five Seasons--of the Wealth of Her Young Love. + + --Thus Simply is Love Instigated.-- + +Had the Maiden Princess Refused him her Silver-Tinged Love--Had she +Spurned and Thrown back upon his Hands his Passion torn To Tatters--he +Might Have Perpetuated his Love by Writing "a Book Without a Woman," or +Better still, he Might Have Spent the Force of his Extravagant Passion +by Executing, in Endless number and variety, Patent Ivory-handled +Umbrellas, Quaintly Carved in the Verisimility of the Oggling Odalisque, +which Impelled the Hand that Instigated his Love by Peeling his Dexter +Eye. + +But, Alas! The Thoughtless Pair of Innocents did not Consider that +their Love, being Mutual, Must, by the Decree of St. Douglass, +die--Unperpetuated--with Them! + +Or, if they Weighed the Dire Decree in the Balances of their Social +Philosophy, I Doubt Not that they Considered that if they Perpetuated +their Love the Length of their Natural Lives they Would have +Accomplished Enough. And, methinks their Heads were Equipoised. This +Work-a-Day World has all the Dudish Booklets and Carved-Ivory Dagger and +Umbrella Handles that it can Easily Carry. Let not Another Booklet break +Old Atlas' Back. + +And "Douglass, O Douglass, Tender and True," Carve for us no more +Heathen Gods of Love. E'en now Their Occupation's Gone. + +The Star-Eyed Goddess that Shines Forth From the Glittering Surface of +the Almighty Dollar is Goddess Potent enough to Perpetuate the Love of +this Day and Generation, even as by her Influence often is + + Love Instigated. + + * * * * * + +But the Quaintly Carved Vegetable-Ivory Odalisque Handle of the +Tanned-Gingham Umbrella that Rested in the Hand-Painted China Receptacle +that Stood in the Voluptuous Environment of the Wine-Colored Plush +Corner of the Long, Quiet Hall of the House of a Friend Where I Supped +the Night after Christmas--[Was this the House that Zack Built?]--It +still Glared at me with a Sinister Gleam of its Dexter Eye as it Oggled +me from its Place on the Hearth of the Wine-Scented Cell--Plush-Lined +Cell--in the Cloistered Precincts of Saint Pendennis. + + * * * * * + +It seemed to Smile a Ready, Garrulous Assent to all that which I have +Said. + +These Words it Seemed to Murmur: + +Oh! Thou Unmitigated Umbrella-Theif! Return Me to the home of those +whose Love I Instigated, whose Happy Household I am Responsible for. +Wake ye! Sleeping Son of Pendennis, or by the Goddess Si[l]va, I will +Execute Dire Vengeance Upon you! + +Even as I once was the Instigator of Love, upon You may be, + + Love Instigated! + + + + +[Illustration] + + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Love Instigated, by Douglass Sherley + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LOVE INSTIGATED *** + +***** This file should be named 19122.txt or 19122.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/1/2/19122/ + +Produced by David Garcia and the Online Distributed +Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was +produced from images generously made available by The +Kentuckiana Digital Library) + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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