´A Watch in the Night´
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Excerpt from ´A Watch in the Night´: A Drama of Waking and Dream, in Five Acts An old man, and a woman, attractive, but no longer young, stood at the large window of a studio in Chelsea, looking out on the Thames. ´Oh yes,´ she was saying, ´the river is melancholy enough and mysterious enough to mean anything. It is like fate. I often think so, as I sit here and watch the boats and steamers and things glide past and disappear in the mist. But I did suppose, Mr. Charafta, that you would hit upon a more original metaphor than that. I wonder how many people have told me that the river is like life and destiny and all the rest of those hackneyed facts?´ The old man smiled. He had a very sweet smile, with the suggestion of deep thought behind it. ´The world is too old,´ he said. ´There are no new metaphors, and nothing is original which is true.´ ´Here!´ exclaimed she laughingly, striking her chest with the tips of her nervous, pointed fingers, ´allow me to show you a contradiction of that statement. I believe it is commonly declared among my friends and acquaintances that there is only one Dorothea Queste. They are good enough or bad enough to say that I am like nobody else; therefore I suppose I must be an original work of the Creator. But, alas! I am not true.´ About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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