Clarimonde - 9781540825124

Translated By Lafcadio Hearn. Show Excerpt very dress might serve as a pall for your coffin. And I felt life rising within me like a subterranean lake, expanding and overflowing; my blood leaped fiercely through my arteries; my long-restrained youth suddenly burst into active being, like the aloe which blooms but once in a hundred years, and then bursts into blossom with a clap of thunder. What could I do in order to see Clarimonde once more? I had no pretext to offer for desiring to leave the seminary, not knowing any person in the city. I would not even be able to remain there but a short time, and was only waiting my assignment to the curacy which I must thereafter occupy. I tried to remove the bars of the window; but it was at a fearful height from the ground, and I found that as I had no ladder it would be useless to think of escaping thus. And, furthermore, I could descend thence only by night in any event, and afterward how should I be able to find my way through the inextricable labyrinth of streets? All these difficulties, which

• • Author: Théophile Gautier, Lafcadio Hearn
• • Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• • Publication Date: Dec 05, 2016
• • Number of Pages: 50 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 1540825124
• • ISBN-13: 9781540825124