The Carpet from Bagdad

The Carpet from Bagdad

The wild hawk to the windswept sky, The deer to the wholesome wold, And the heart of a man to the heart of a maid, As it was in the days of old. Rudyard Kipling. To possess two distinctly alien red corpuscles in one's blood, metaphorically if not in fact, two characters or individualities under one epidermis, is, in most cases, a peculiar disadvantage. One hears of scoundrels and saints striving to consume one another in one body, angels and harpies; but ofttimes, quite the contrary to being a curse, these two warring temperaments become a man's ultimate blessing: as in the case of George P.A. Jones, of Mortimer & Jones, the great metropolitan Oriental rug and carpet company, all of which has a dignified, sonorous sound. George was divided within himself. This he would not have confessed even into the trusted if battered ear of the Egyptian Sphynx. There was, however, no demon-angel sparring for[Pg 2] points in George's soul. The difficulty might be set forth in this manner: On one side stood inherent common sense; on the other, a boundless, roseate imagination which was likewise inherenta kind of quixote imagination of suitable modern pattern. This alter ego terrified him whenever it raised its strangely beautiful head and shouldered aside his guardian-angel (for that's what common sense is, argue to what end you will) and pleaded in that luminous rhetoric under the spell of which our old friend Sancho often fell asleep. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 43749
Author: MacGrath, Harold
Release Date: Sep 16, 2013
Format: eBook
Language: English

Contributors

Illustrator: Castaigne, J. André, 1861-1929