The House of the Secret (La maison des hommes vivants)

The House of the Secret (La maison des hommes vivants)

This day, January 20, 1909, I have decided to set my story down in writing. Dangerous and terrifying the task! But I must perform it. For day after tomorrow I shall be dead. Day after tomorrow.... Just two days! And death from old age! Of this I am as certain as a man can be of anything. What, then, have I to lose by speaking? That much I owe to the unsuspecting men and women who are to survive me. They are in danger; and I must warn them.... Day after tomorrow I shall be safe. Day after tomorrow I shall be dead.... And this is my testament and last will, written in my own hand! To all men and women, my brothers and my sisters, I bequeatha Secret, the Secret. May my death serve as a warning to them, one and all! Such is my last will and testament.... Now I am quite in my right mindlet there[Pg 2] be no doubt of that. I am sound, absolutely sound, in mind and, for that matter, in body. I have never known what it means to be sick. But I am old, old beyond human experience of age. How old, I wonder? Eighty? A hundred? Make it a hundred and fifty! It really doesnt matter. I have nothing to decide the question. You might find my birth certificate, papers I may have written, people who may have known me. Such things would not help. Not even my own sensations give me any accurate impression of my actual age. I have been old for such a very few days! I have had no time to grow accustomed to the sudden change. There is no comparison, either, between my absorption of the centuries and ordinary old agethis last, indeed, has never been mine. I became what I am instantaneously, one may say. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 65709
Author: Farrère, Claude
Release Date: Jun 27, 2021
Format: eBook
Language: English

Contributors

Translator: Livingston, Arthur, 1883-1944