. Italian backgrounds. umble clients to stir aninch from his path; and the noble INIarquess, in hisspotless buckskin leggings and gauntlets, will neveragain be off to shoot thrushes from a bird-tower in the Euganeans. But the very rigidity of theironce supple joints seems an allegory of their latterstate. There they stand, poor dolls of destiny, dis-carded playthings of the gods, in attitudes of puzzledwonder, as if arrested in their revels by the strokeof the dread Corsican magician—for it was notDeath but Napoleon who stepped tacitly and tookthem from the plots and pleasures, the sunshineand
. Italian backgrounds. umble clients to stir aninch from his path; and the noble INIarquess, in hisspotless buckskin leggings and gauntlets, will neveragain be off to shoot thrushes from a bird-tower in the Euganeans. But the very rigidity of theironce supple joints seems an allegory of their latterstate. There they stand, poor dolls of destiny, dis-carded playthings of the gods, in attitudes of puzzledwonder, as if arrested in their revels by the strokeof the dread Corsican magician—for it was notDeath but Napoleon who stepped tacitly and tookthem from the plots and pleasures, the sunshineand music of the canals, to that pale world of oblivionwhere only now and then some dreamer curious ofthe day of little things revisits their melancholyghosts. [214] UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LIBRARYBERKELEY Return to desk from which book is DUE on the last date stamped below. MAR 1 2 1977 APR ^ ^95fAPR 8 ]m OCT 26.:::^i yMA^29l987 K. cm. DEC 5 , Bo iO 1981 LD 21-100to-7,52(A2528s16)476 A uO/o739.
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