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Vignettes
Visfnettes
A
Miniature Journal of
Whim
and Sentiment
By Hubert Crackanthorpe
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'.
John Lane
New
1896
York
is
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Vignettes
vi
Vignettes
ATVILLEthe roof of the ruined church
ON
we
lay,
powdery heather
neath
us
the cinder-coloured
town
roofs of the
flattened out
be-
it
seemed,
Rhone
Overhead, a thick,
valley.
blue sky
the Tarascon
filtered
east, the
slopes
palace,
road,
To
of dazzling white.
streak
the
beast, lifted
great, grey,
like
its
Papal
sleeping
The
lizards scurried
cranny
to
across
Below,
wall.
was curled by
wood.
The
and
stillness
over
all
from cranny
the
crumbling
in
seemed to have
fallen
things.
The warmth
NEUVELES
AVIGNON
lulled
one
to a de-
April 23
Vignettes
ATVILLE
NEUVELES
Regent
Street pavement, of
licious torpor.
bustling
Piccadilly, of
newsboys
commonplace
contrasts.
to speak.
sat
between
us,
with
some
stray wisps
brown
coiffe.
As she
browned
also
and squat
It
her vocabulary
now and
limited,
and
would
des
"(/ pays
ne
que
sauvages " and of the sweetheart
Tunis
oil
on
voit
Vignettes
he had
left
behind at Barbentane
AT VILLE-
NEUVE
LES
how he AVIGNON
was
Somehow,
irresistibly,
and bronzed,
his
on the back of
no^ant
out to him.
Valence,
in
the
time
worked
Madame Charbonnier
had
when
as a cherry-packer
in
the
she
for
Rue
Vignettes
filles
et
garfons^ dans un
trois
^ambulant
'
train
....
alter et retour
Marseilles^
....
....
chose
....
c'est
quelque
one
in
those days
but
money
in
And
her father,
Les
who
there
had
at
Vignettes
where the AT VILLENEUVE-
There Jeanne-
Marie
always
Latour had
seventy-seven years,
it was now, as
remember
she,
who
lived
she could
near as
She could
the flags.
houses
other
family
who
from
pass
had
the
right
church
as a barn,
grande^
Peglise^^^
all
family
to
them now
to use the
"w^yi;,
the
elle est
old
bien
Jeanne-Marie Latou
And
down
se
chicanent
bid us good-bye,
health,
LES
d'assignats
toddling
the steps.
away
Vignettes
AT VILLE
After she had gone, we stayed a
NEUVElong while up on the hot roof, watchLES
AVIGNON ing the dark shadows creep from
Rhone,
rippling
wards the
drowsily
as
it
swept past
to-
sea.
than
ever
concerning old
spahis^
soldier
away over
ney of hers
to Marseilles
^ons^
aller et
ASCEN
little
below,
quatre francs
SION DAY
eighteen
THE
et
dowze
town
gar-
sous^
retour^
population
AT ARLES
street
rubicund peasants
in
starched
featured Arlesiennes
head-dresses
in
quaint,
lace
Vignettes
en chapeau rond and tight-fitting com-
plets;
flowing red
fills
the P/^c*? du
and
green
and
odours
in
.
great,
of
en-
fruit-sellers
of
flowers
the
regiment
of a
beldams
wrinkled
beyond,
umbrellas
camped
bellies,
their
stretched:
under their
strange complication of
cheese,
floats
alley-corner
in
of
and
fish
the air:
at
of
every
An
old top-hattcd
vaunts a winc-tcsting
Jew
fluid,
ASCEN-
SION DAY
zouaves, AT ARLES
nasally
and
tells
Vignettes
8
ASCEN
SIGN DAY
AT ARLES
of- Paris
accompaniment of a big
the inevi-
table strong
man
defiantly challenges
the crowd to
split
and a blind-folded
fortune-telling wrench
chaunts with
is
stuffs, red,
green
travelling
show-
men
tions,
hammering together
their skele-
of a
from
rolls
of
the steam-orchestra
de
siecle
bellows
pets a deafening,
wheezy tune
and
Vignettes
OF
SPRING
BEARN
a sudden
it
IN
golden green
white
snow-
baby leaves
The
frail
all littered
the moss
and the
rivulets
the sun-
air
is
humming
It lasts
of wings.
but a
week
of dainty gaiety
fleeting
mood
a quick discarding
May
Vignettes
lO
SPRING
And
IN
then,
has
it
BEARN
summer
May
shadows.
THE
LONG
sun.
MYSTERIOUS,
GRASS
the
blazes
lentlessly
IN
and through
flitted,
impenetrable
close
crowd of flowers
gold
dande-
ragged medallions
stubbly
buttercups,
lions like
glistening
bearded thistles
sleek-stalked orchises,
ragged robin.
corpu-
and skinny
all,
ceaseless
humming
of wings
Hidden
in the
and
idle.
green-stemmed jun-
Vignettes
gle, a
II
hurrying
ants
chafers, drowsily
lumbering
spiders, fidgeting
THE
LONG
IN
GRASS
tiny, red
;
humanly
expressive
shiny, black
beasts,
now
poised motionless,
now
One
after
come
another they
peep at me.
for a
pair of blue-bottles,
a furry
flower;
to
looking
flics
and
dark,
met
to-day; but
is
a year
her, sitting
alone
since
evil-
It
Her
face
was tanned
I'AU
May
14
12
Vignettes
PAU
as clean linen,
her,
did
When
lous hands.
not
first
know
spoke to
that she
was
blind.
me
in a
hemmed them
as
coutur'iere.
asked
"
It
is
her
up
how
When
saw
was
young I had a great trouble
For eighteen months I wept, and
when I went back to work, my eyes
were worn out, and I could see no
more
It is forty-eight years
now, monsieur^ since I saw anything.
anything, monsieur.
....
Heureusement.,
pour longtemps
fini.
il riy
en a plus
ce sera bientot
."
though
Vignettes
was crying a
13
fingered
as she
little,
PAU
FROM
sky,
we
an ancient,
tat-
May
To
reach
it
we waded
the
Luys
bellies,
and climbed
contorted
limbs
chestnuts.
The
of
leafy,
Spanish
shadow of
its
houses
discoloured-
everywhere
their
and starved,
bones
till
protruded,
Low,
sloping
CASTELSARRASIN
roofs,
moss-grown.
17
H
CASTELSARRASIN
Vignettes
the colour of old gold, over-lapped
caps
ill-fitting
shading
mul-
new
earthenware pots
tomed
chairs
Two
little
broken
of old
linen
and a
tower
of
The
clock on the
whitewashed church
the
though
pointed
half-past
ten,
twilight
had
yet come.
our
not
hoofs
horses'
clattered,
floored rooms,
almost
mud-
the
And
the
stacks of dead
to themselves.
all
seemed,
ricketty rush-bot-
strips
it
moaning with
age.
Toiling up the
side,
we met
barefooted,
hill,
on the other
a crooked old
clad
in
single
woman,
frayed
Vignettes
15
CASTELSARRASIN
shirt,
her head.
and
toiled
on barefooted up the
ALL day
lusty
golden-green
with
.
both
.
an intense impression of
....
a long, white
May
its
rust-
blue brawling
swelling
upland
flower-thronged,
luscious
rivers;
meadows,
with
tall,
tlie
mountains
mules
Spain
lage
wine-carriers
through
streets,
coming
dank,
where
THE
quivering country
of
sunlight,
IN
BASQUE
cobbled
the
pigs
from
vil-
pant
23
Vignettes
i6
IN
THE
BASQUE
COUNTRY, sandal-makers
fore their doors
the
into
the
flatten
and the
hemp
be-
sunlight,
lusty
along
the
straight,
rious,
And,
scents
the
at
soft
last,
cool
evening
silent oaks
still,
the
and,
all at
once,
sky
in the
and of the
hills, all
IN
THE
LANDES
SINCE
ling
May
27
sunrise
along the
summer
sand,
the
poplars
across
the
great,
Vignettes
parched
length,
plain,
the
where,
17
all
dances
heat
desolate villages,
the
day's
over
the
bells float
through the
empty but
for
the
And
The
fell.
dim
sun
flickering
and
The
the forest.
as
ing
her
Out
beside mc.
And
did not
And
strange, superstitious
fear
IN
THE
LANDES
Vignettes
i8
IN
THE
crept
me a dreamy
over
LANDES
the future
of evil days to
helpless
presentiment
come
a sense, too,
dread of
life,
of the
And
returned to
" The
eye
me mockingly:
is
CETTE
June
J,
Midday
aflatsweep
cobalt-blue, rich
opaque, pervading
all
things.
and
In the
men
glaring pavement
barrels,
can reach,
repeating
same
Vignettes
note of colour.
stifling
19
.
The
CETTE
mically
of
everywhere a sensation
listless
oppression, of
less torpor.
HAVE
sat
light,
lives,
and
crimson,
yellow, start,
finish
all
hot
their short-
and
nights,
up the
pallid
June 26
when
stifled
river.
on these
the
sky
colour, and
and the
MENT
summer
ON
CHELSEA
EMBANK-
the globes of
emerald,
But
life-
there,
winter days
spanned
is
For
hushed,
regiment of lamps.
its
The
bridge clasps
bank
to
20
Vignettes
ON
CHELSEA
EMBANK- quiet.
MENT
There,
.
seems to
siren, that
guish of London,
throttle
to
of the an-
tell
till
a train hurries
its
bridge,
the
SANT
COURT
is
white
the dark
into
country beyond.
PLEA-
its
known
of the quarter.
To
find
it,
you
Turn
to
walls of dismal
the
right
by the
two
posts,
Pleasant-court.
and
left
through
you come
to
are
21
Vignettes
for
you can go no farther
the far end there is no way out.
there,
at
There
and
six
every
seven
on the one
side,
alike,
sant-court
one
low-w^alled
cottages;
built
of
as
country
blackish
brick,
that
roofs
glimmer wanly on
But winter
is
see Pleasant-court at
drain-sluice
is
mud
to
The
best.
so that pools of
ter loiter
its
and,
"most everyone
and young Hyams in
Christmas-time,
a bit out,"
the Walworth-road
stacks
half
his
and
all
PLEA-
SANT
COURT
22
PLEA-
Vignettes
" her husband, and sending her
tie
SANT
COURT
children
four
about
clatter
to
the
pavement.
In the summer, however, everyone
sultry
the
pushes
its
w^indows
side
On
air.
creeper
jaded
some of the
grass
plots
grovi^ quite
No.
at
flaming
strike
specks
of
vermilion.
March
Last
his wife
over
and
to
No. 5
is
Southwark
in
the
the
work again
is
moved
lodger
;
and
at
now
restored to
Pleasant-court.
The
floor
flap across
Mrs.
to bulge
of white banners
and on the
airless
Vignettes
women,
23
PLEA-
SANT
COURT
evenings, the
elbows
gossip
skirts, lean
And on
rattle of
past
that shuffles
down
pavement,
its
with gross
THESE
lotta,
ta,
are
jets
of gas.
their
names
Car-
Clarissa.
By
the old
little
comely contours
rotund dames.
own
full,
a courtly group of
Heavy
SISTKR
PANS Its
bowling-
pompously
THE FIVE
Carlotta, the
August 19
24
Vignettes
THE FIVE
SISTER
PANSIES
blown, middle-aged,
rich
magenta,
tawdry
gilt
gown
in her
of
embroidered with
all
an empress of
significant Belinda,
sentimental mauve,
all
old,
in-
in silly,
dallying
for
giggling,
phisticated
gullible
Aminta, with
unso-
tresses
of
common
rissa,
stage heroine
and Cla-
milk-white innocence.
OUR
LADY OF
THE
LANE
Sept. 17
the
shops with
colour the
old gold
hanging meat
jumble
small,
of
and
dusky
begrimed
scarlet
of
Vignettes
25
OUR
mature cabbages; the wavering rusLADY OF
the sharp white
THE
LANE
then the
all awry
of
fly-bills,
moment
pasted
to see
her
and touzled
her
down
back, and
her
hanging
shawl
peaked
dingv,
You
come.
is
in
the
front
established
by her
own
littered
the
fitful
hammering of
hollow
the
beneath
all
hoofs.
carries always a
She
breast
bulky
a
any man's;
as
froward
laughs,
gaiety.
it
scowl
is
baby by her
are
forearms
bare
her
as
her eyes
in
and,
when
fails
to
wear
robust
of
is
she
Cockney maternity.
Vignettes
26
ON THE
COAST OF
THE
DOS
Sept. 26
rhythm
lent
CALVA-
along the
all
mo-
sombre, metallic-looking
tionless,
the
lifeless,
thunder-charged
amid a rugged
the sun
went down
smoky
of
flare
before the
distant
again.
still
horizon, a quiet
storm
in
and
flame,
past, fleeing
then,
w hile.
rift
West.
in the
grew
air
across
all
the
broke, revealing
towering
The
lent
cliffs.
rhythm
steamer,
moved
And
pitching
in
the
offing.
came
breeze
fleeing, trailing
an inky
stain
West
of gigantic
The
pillars
parched
of rain.
trees
swayed
their
Vignettes
27
and, of
things in a
all
ON THE
COAST OK
CALVA-
DOS
And
overhead,
growing
flashes
flight
night,
through
on,
tlic
the
jagged
white,
dull
booming of thunder
told of
A MAUVE
sky,
all
subtle; a dis-
modern,
arrangement of trim
trees,
of rectan-
there
prim
church-spire;
farmyard;
and
blouscd
Here and
a
squat
peasants
IN NOR-
MANDY
Sept. 30
28
Vignettes
IN NOR-
MANDY
In
all
of
almost dapper.
PARIS IN
OCTOBER
PARIS
in
a-glitter
October 4
ling sky,
vards
leaves;
and
and the
trembling
their
russet
frail,
com-
busied with
tiresome,
parochial
her
own
obvious
blue;
ever
publicity, her
vice,
and
her
modernity coquetting
with cosmopolitanism.
Vignettes
O TRIPS
Vs3
29
of ruddy earth:
with
flecked
autumn
yards with
la cOte
poplars
gold,
and vine
red;
FROM
THE
TRAIN
October 6
the
The
sun
trailing
sets,
watery gold
pale,
sombre shadows
the acacia-groves
pounds the
wash of
fill
train, untiring,
rhythmically throbbing.
FTEN
great
lake,
his
est
un dial d\ime."
life
on
have
tlie
brooded
moods.
Deep-blue, she
in silent
meditation
opal-tinted
mists
of
lived
lausan-
shores of this
over
lies
her
plunged
wrapped
in
evening,
the
she
^tocr:
Vignettes
30
LAUSAN- dreams the
NE
fancy
vague,
now
even, as
dreams of
glad
little
by
blue
sleeping
humour
is
woman
at times her
bewilderingly capricious
or, ink-
OLD MAR
SEILLES
UP
AT
MIDDAY
tall,
every staircase-street
pinched
crevasses,
peeling
cliffs
dark
between
life
Vignettes
the
31
hum
of OLD MARSEILLES
a thousand tongues and the clatter of
AT
Greeks
Italians,
all
bathed
lies
may
At midday, MIDDAY
...
straining mules.
when
angry
feel
you
sunshine,
lusty
in
quicken to
fever-heat
throbbing.
Across the
turbulent
its
of
golden highway
of masts
stiffens,
the
frail forest
lie
the herds
houette of
Notrc-Dame
de
Oh
for
la
Garde
gilt.
Marseilles at midday
Vignettes
32
MONTE
CARLO
October 15
HIGH,
dome
great
moon hangs
twinkling
Monaco
of
lights
are
no breath of breeze
solemn
phrase
to
sway the
only the
full,
of
grave
still,
air
of the night.
The moonbeams
in
.
Chance
back
its
and stately
portals to
swing
officials
meet the
silent tide
and
of marble
steps.
rings
where the
shuffle
of feet
goddess,
yellow
to
await, with
faces, the
tense,
unflagging tide
Vignettes
SAT
33
AT THE
CERTOSA
DI VAL
D'EMA
sunshine was
of the rain-clouds.
The
the
it
coming
witty
city's
sparkle;
warm and
moist
and Florence,
all
Below, knee-deep
the
in
yellow,
his
framework
and while
of a sudden, a
the supple
watched him,
longing to see
tJic
sec
fitful
that
me
to
last year,
on
all
it,
just as
it
had been
all
fragrant
And
soon, as
a sombre, swelling
herd
gathered
seemed
roll,
to hear
and
to
the
organ's
perceive,
stately
through
the
October 20
Vignettes
34
and
life
little
those
their
gardens,
tall,
envying them
white-robed fathers
and their
solitary
pacings
cloisters.
to
go there, rattling
So
I started
some
bygone y?/^.
But, before
hill,
the rain
we had climbed
came
the
a deliberate pre;
and a
veil,
;;;
Vignettes
35
at the
CERTOSA
dim, spiky DI VAL
D'EMA
to
me, so
I fancied,
youths and
raffish,
Florentine cabmen,
who encumbered
the
corridor,
his
Over the
of the cloister-
tiled floor
tJie
rain
wore a
forlorn,
decrepit
as of
air
approaching
Americans joined
us, listening
com-
the
the exquisite
stained-glass
tomb
of
tlie
windows,
monastery's
founder.
And
all
changed
Vignettes
36
common,
MORNING AT
CASTELLO
October 30
role
of a
obsequious guide.
THEandmorning's The
clean.
seem yet
asleep, tranquil
distant hills
and dark
Above
plain
floats
and the
a lingering,
pearly
air
life
On
train
its
way
swings by
hordes of brown-
lean idly
watching the
the
men
ceaseless tale
Vignettes
37
MORN-
and before
chairs,
to
LO
their straw-
at
sit
ING AT
CASTEL-
but
it
rather the
is
accumulation of friendly,
charm of
suburban
this
....
street
sky
and darkening,
sea towards the
and
iiigh
trivial
incident, that
hangs amid a
the
rolls like
laud,
IN THE
CAMI'O
empty SANTO
AT
a billowing PERUGIA
behind us the
tall
Down
hill lifts
came
November
Vignettes
38
IN
THE
j
tod-
in
in
rows on
either
the
side,
crippled
whine
in
charity
for
the
Virgin's
name.
Before the red gate of the
is
the dead
.
tiny
Campo
within, every
is
the
all
The
lamps
town
is
To
visit
come.
glow of garlands
the
snow-
graves
the
glitter
of
the
glad
flowers.
scent
of
every
;
and
freshly-scattered
Vignettes
Death
loses
its
39
demure,
becomes something
sociable, almost gay.
UP
and
squalor;
THE
CAMPO
SANTO AT
IN
PERUGIA
.
NAPLES
VEMBER
IN NO-
home from
Late
...
after-
noon in the
stradadd
Chiaja
side
^*'"
"'
pavement.
HEAPED beneath us
all
Naples,
midday sun
still
the
cir-
hills;
Froin
Fosilipo
in
on the hori-
Nov.
12
40
Vignettes
Froi
Posilipo
silhouette
la
bonne
et
In the
Strada del
Porto
flicker
Nov.
the
wan
uproar
of a
hawkers of
fruit,
ous
crowd
reeking
of
fish,
of assorted
By-and-bye, through
rity,
piled
the glossy
peers
obscu-
vermilion
of
of bleeding
hard
the
pomegranates, and
flashing
sardines.
of
scattered,
Here and
there,
the
silvery
behind
Vignettes
41
In the
Strada del
a^ed crone
or
some
Porto
at a lean-shafted,
Bands of
way down
the alley,
of slatternly
airless
and
women
stifling,
sky overhead
and the
almost epic
tensity.
THE
long
in
.
line
street
comes
fascination,
to possess a satanic
its
.
in-
of lamps
countless, trembling
casts
pillars
Moonlight
of
Nov. a9
of
stifled light
pale,
is
quivering
Vignettes
42
Moonlight
suffusion
of mysterious
Castello d'Oro
like
empty sky
lies
hulk
sleeping
rhythm of the
dancing
is
boy and a
girl
and
waves
sleek, rolling
the
across
the
black as ink,
floats,
shapeless
The
blue.
falls.
lean together,
twanging
then
the dis-
all is
quiet
pulsing,
breaks
in
upon
At
HAVE
the
Theatre
Manzotii
many
first-nights
childish
Nov. 26
been to
charm
in
tiers
pit,
of
faces,
and the
in-
Vignettes
row of callow
evitable
43
sucking
critics,
Ai
the
Thfatre
tight-jammed behind
with
his hat
his head.
of
arsenic-green
mercy
implored
satin,
passionately
of
curly-pated
in a shirt
of maroon-coloured
knight
him.
little
ing to us
little
her
all
But the
wooden gaze
to help her.
knight kept
his
till,
ex-
legged couch.
little
stood a
trifle
slightly
from stage-fright.
pit
sat
stiffly,
as
if
in
ktiight
suffering
Hut the
breathless
Manzoni
Vignettes
44
At
Uic
silence,
critics
Theatre
Manzoni
newed
vigour, and
jammed
some
he
was so
maroon-coloured
in
the
curly-pated knight
little
in his shirt of
vet
For
way
inexplicable
curious,
brutal,
their hats
heads.
vellittle
Once
before,
in
my
childhood,
I saw a
same tense frahad flaxen hair, and
gility.
She, too,
his
durately.
And
each scene, as
to
now
contain a
unreality.
Vignettes
45
was an old
There
ITwhite
columns of peeling
mill.
were POMPEII
plaster
Part of
grass
rafters
of the
of battered
roof;
frescoes,
tall,
rank
rottening
and
remnants
And
sun and
to
wind and
rain.
were
of blossoming wild-flowers.
full
the meal-troughs
Moorish
house,
roofed
with
lava,
was
well,
soil
daughters,
and beyond
the
the father,
four
great
walls
the mother,
sons,
them
stretched
dead-grey expanse
the
two
sun-dried
of roofless
corpse
of the
Nov. 28
Vignettes
46
twilight
of yellow
was
turning
trickling
defaced by
German
formed guides
tourists
country supplied a
shortness of
life,
IN
THE
TO
the impassive
...
of the
Nov. 30
of the
bitter sense of
sloth of time.
HAY OF
SALERNO
and uni-
corner
this
night
to
hear
the restless
through
the
thousand
little so,
feet
beneath
to
the
rocks a
love
Vignettes
and
And
life
amid a
so,
dreamy
ponder on strange
to
listlessly
meanings of
sadness,
to
all
desire,
fills
and
full
IN
THE
BAY OF
SALERNO
serenity of
still
forget
to
turmoil of passion, to
heart
47
grow
the
mad
indifferent
under-
stand
and
to
when
the days
in
shall
THE
oil-lamj->s
sigliing
the end
have come.
entertainment draws to
close, for
morning.
thing,
illusion,
it
is
past four in
its
eyed weariness.
score of unshaven
lowering
SEVILLE
IJANCING
the
GIRLS
sombreros^
in
sprawl
capas and
in
limp
IJcccmbcrio
Vignettes
48
DANCING
GIRLS
women
sit listless,
that
pasty-faced,
fill
som-
nolent.
And
The
frenzy passes.
sudden,
women
bitter
twanging,
and
the
of hands.
Amid
volleys
plaudits la
her
of
soft, girlish
exasperated restraint
pent
frenzied
harsh,
coyly, subtly
lascivious
lan-
white arms.
Out
I
in
hasten
the
cold
night
home through
air,
as
the narrow,
sways before
to the bitter
my
eyes,
twanging
of guitars.
Vignettes
TO
through
long
the
of the night
hours
49
indefinite
climb
to
slumbering mountain-hulks
the
roar
dull
of the
the
to hear
river,
toiling
low
gloomy
distant village-streets,
stillness
of
and on through
journey, without
high
flagging,
a desolate,
limitless plain.
To
the past
to unlearn
as
To
elude
to
the
to disdain
desire;
of hate;
tlirill
long
the
forget
commune,
in
And
awav
across
towards
the
the
to
hills,
sunrise;
to
push
on
watch the
across
SUNRISE
Vignettes
50
SUNRISE the
and
East,
at
Great God's
meet the
to
last
dazzling
glory,
empty
the
OFF CAPE
TRAFAL-
GAR
December
i8
WE
land.
be done.
The
till
watch should
his
now and
again
we
could
feel
her
from
He was
telling
me
tales
of the
crowd of
the
vessels
lying
in
of
the
pital
there,
in
the hos-
from behind a
railed
gangway.
;;
Vignettes
And, while he
still
51
talked,
dawn, revealing
of the
first flicker
GAR
flocks of ruddy-sailed
throng of black
the
slowly,
the
from
sky,
behind
the
The mirage
red stain.
low
till
rose, lifting
it
set a carpet
hung, stretched
awning
DREAMED
I
strangely
grown REVERIE
of an age
pidturesque
of
the
December 35
rich enfeebled
of
shivering
the
nightly
informed
:
poor
justice;
for
democracy,
rational
by monotoiums ease
vast
clamouring
of
revolt
of
helpless
the
of priests striving
of
sentimental
to
ill-
be
moralists
Vignettes
52
of middle-class
of sybaritic saints
pompous
placent and
com-
of
politicians
of
the race
bilities
befooling
critics
of
artists discarding
limitations;
for
pretentious
public
of
refining
methods
possi-
of pressmen
of inhabitants of Camber-
all
IN RICH-
MOND
PARK
deserted
sluggishly drowsing, so
seemed, with
its
muffled in greyness
lous, blurred.
One
spacious distances
;
colourless, fabu-
by one, through
Vignettes
the damp, misty
air,
53
loomed the
tall,
Overhead there
IN RICH-
MOND
PARK
And, amid
way
life
seemed hushed
ing saddle.
The
ghostly
The rumour
noiselessly.
the vague,
listless
.
mare picked
little
her
daylight faded
a shroud of
enveloped
mist
of
the
earth,
dis-
T was New
Year's eve.
old scene.
The
old,
London night;
NEW
YKARS
EVE
ket-place of sin
asilent
crowd of black
pavement.
54
Vignettes
NKW
YEAR'S
EVE
ed
a strident,
level
swept through
all
laugh
and there
The women
feverish tremor.
ran one
And
they ran.
cabmen touted
the
on a chair
..." Repent
repent
broke
and one
young
laughter.
And
mused wonderingly on
Vignettes
A SULLEN
head
threading
55
their
rumour of
waits on
lights
like
tion,
of
feverish
The
blaze
night
still,
January 15
London
air.
the
PARK
shadowy groupings
IN ST.
JAMES'S
all
hangs draped
the air
in
of a
murky London
night.
THE
city disgorges.
IN
gaudy
craft, drift
jamming
I' I
IK
down STRAND
their
January 27
Vignettes
56
of dingy figures
edge
troops
line the
pavement-
newsboys
of frenzied
and
woman
Somewhere, behind
heeded the sun has
Pall Mall,
set:
gleam
un-
the sky
blazing
out,
windows of burnished
is
one by
glass; the
of hurrying feet
and over
all
SUNDAY
AFTER-
NOON
was a
shabbily symIT metrical
a double row of
February 20 nificant,
little street,
insig-
dingy-brick houses.
Muffled
Vignettes
in the
noon,
less
seemed sunk
it
was
Sunday
in squalid, list-
SUNDAY
AFTER-
NOON
slumber.
bell
57
tolling
its
joyless mechanical
tale.
man
He
sluttish
he
you could
air
when he had
was very
dull
And
remained gazing up
lifeless
the
bitter.
at
the rows of
in his
blood-
THE
effluent, a
well-upholstcred
massy profusion of
April IS
undulations
Nor-
Vignettes
58
REVERIE mandy,
in
almost
dapper,
rusticity, its
finnikin
coquettish,
discreet
its
spruceness,
of detail
its
distinguished reticence
the plains of
Lombardy
in
midsummer,
all
vegetation
in
cheap sentimentality,
in a catch-
Andalucia,
its bitter,
.
exaspe-
lived,
of the
women one
with
it
With
the
fiu6luations
Musset seems
of
mood,
puerile or passionate
passively statuesque
or
infinitely
Pater, tortuous
dexterous;
Meredith,
There
are
Vignettes
fail
to
cer- REVERIE
who would
59
move
us to-day
books
which we
we
places
hesitate
to
open again
from sur-
and
veying.
And
tree,
less
roam
flies
like
home from
the pastures,
have come
whole way-
ward grace of
this country-side
melancholy of
its
to
wide
plains,
the
burnt
the
desolate
silence
of those
lie
beyond;
contours of
wooded
the
hesitating
dark,
the daz-
Vignettes
6o
REVERIE their
tall,
the tumble-down,
awry,
all
loose-fitting,
like
with
strewn
the
tiles;
dingy ox-
new
earthenware
tomed
leaves
seems,
rickety, rush-bot-
their
rustling
still
ing
pots,
it
broken
brown,
winter
the
land
the
peasants,
men,
line
the
the jangling
courier
bristling
of curved
horns,
the
backs
Vignettes
of the town
6i
under
rocks,
bridge.
sun
Norman
old
The
the
slips
behind a bank of
green
stain,
charm of
and the
this
tiny
pale-
its
old, penetrating
corner
of
the
bind myself to
to
my
to have
it,
place
come.
The oxen
along the road
shadows
gone
have
;
way
their
garden
from
hill
near
hand a tree-frog
shrill, clear
their
quite
starts
piping
tlie
at
his
tiien,
of a
fallen.
Vignettes
62
REVERIE wrapping
all
and sky
earth
mysterious,
her
in
impenetrable
blackness.
ENFANTILLAGE
April 23
AVE
cloudland
derful
where,
white
summer
swelling
the
monstrous
sea,
cattle,
close-huddled
and
beyond
like droves of
the comely,
lie
milk-
the
quick-scudding
across
the
sky
the
mighty
and
all
from the
the South
Sometimes,
sea
lies
calm
at even-fall,
in
her opal
when
tints,
the
you
Vignettes
may
63
strange, fantastic
we may
away towards
the lands
FINIS
linger
silently sail
we have
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