Little Dinners With the Sphinx, and Other Prose Fancies

Little Dinners With the Sphinx, and Other Prose Fancies

THE Sphinx and I had not met for quite a long time. We hadnt dined together forO I should thinkfour years; and it was strange to both of us to be sitting opposite to each other once more in the friendly glitter of a little dinner tablethat glitter which is made up of skillfully mitigated electric light falling on various delicate objects of pleasure: the slim, fluted crystal of the wineglasses, the lustral linen, the tinkling ice in its silver jug, the moon-white roses, and the opals on the Sphinxs long fingers. What appalling faithfulness! laughed the Sphinx. But I would rather a man were faithful to me with his brain than with his heart. It means more. Faithful hearts are comparatively commonbut when a man is faithful with his brain.... To tell the truth there are several explanations, I continued gravely. I hardly know which to choose. The scientific one is probably this: Nature is beginning to retrench. She cannot afford any longer to keep up so expensive a house of life. Her bank account of vitality is no longer what it was. Time was when she poured her blood through ones veins like a spendthrift, and kept up ever{7} so fine and flashing a style. Ones members lived like princes in their pride, and there was colour and dash for all and to spare. But now nature feels that she can no longer afford this prodigalityshe feels, as I said, the need of retrenchment. So, looking about the house of life, she says to herself: Here I can spare a little, and We can dispense with this, and We can no longer afford that. Then, coming to the hair, she says sorrowfully: This brown colour is very expensive, I can no longer afford it. We must be content with grey. Soon she will find the eyes too expensive to keep up in their present brightness, and the ears will have to be content with a reduced supply of sound.... ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 64854
Author: Le Gallienne, Richard
Release Date: Mar 18, 2021
Format: eBook
Language: English