E. Nesbit

Name: Daphne in Fitzroy Street — XXIII : UNSUBDUED
Author: E. Nesbit

Daphne in Fitzroy Street — XXIII … (1909)

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“Daphne in Fitzroy Street — XXIII : UNSUBDUED”, published in 1909, is a work by E. Nesbit. It explores elements such as Daphne, Henry and Hilary.

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E. Nesbit, Daphne in Fitzroy Street — XXIII … (1909)

“ The intellectual idea of her love for another had not affected his love for her. But when he saw her in another man’s arms—saw the tender, innocent, passionate response of her body to another man’s clasp—he felt in his own body a pang like death’s, and in his heart the image fell headlong from the altar, never to be set up again. Even if time should be kind, and Daphne change and turn to him, still it was all over. ”

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E. Nesbit, Daphne in Fitzroy Street — XXIII … (1909)

“ Two faces that haunt her dreams to this day. Then the men gripped each other again in a struggle. It was like two dogs fighting, she thought—only dogs growl and bark and shriek, and these two were so horribly quiet. They stamped and struggled, and she could hear them breathe thickly. They writhed to and fro—and Henry’s face was thin and white and horrible; St. Hilary’s face was swollen and pink. Now Henry’s hands were on the other man’s throat. Daphne tried to throw her arms round Henry. He shook her off roughly, and she saw his face again—St. Hilary’s, too. ”

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E. Nesbit, Daphne in Fitzroy Street — XXIII … (1909)

“ We know just what we have always known—that you fall in love with people not because they are handsome or clever or good—oh, certainly never because they are good—but because they are lovable. No, not that either, but—because they are the people you fall in love with.
Hear further the wisdom of Mrs. Delarue, the only other actor on the stage where Mr. St. Hilary and his poor fairy princess go through their interminable duologues.
“Love,” says Mrs. Delarue, pensively, dustpan in hand at a drooping angle, “love’s most awful queer when you come to think of it.” ”

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E. Nesbit, Daphne in Fitzroy Street — XXIII … (1909)

“ Go and marry her yourself. Since she lies to you, she probably cares for you. I may be a devil—you’ll know it in another minute—but I’m not devil enough to wish to tie any woman to me. I don’t care for any woman—for more than half an hour. I never have; I never shall. Go, I tell you—go back to your——”
Then there was no more speech, but a sound of feet moving, then some words heavily spoken under the breath. Daphne, outside, became aware that it was a struggle—two men angry to madness. And Henry had said—what horrible thing was it he had said among all the other horrible things? ”

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E. Nesbit, Daphne in Fitzroy Street — XXIII … (1909)

“ He could never raise to the altar where a girl’s image had stood among white flowers, the image of the girl who had been in that man’s arms, beautifully unashamed in the strength of her young nature. It was all over. St. Hilary was his own man again. Cold, bruised, wretched, like one wakened from soft dreams in a warm curtained room, beaten, and turned out into the air of a winter’s night—bewildered, resentful, but—his own man. ”

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E. Nesbit, Daphne in Fitzroy Street — XXIII … (1909)

“ Delarue, and now the dust trickles slowly off the edge of the dustpan, “you may say so, but at any ways they didn’t ’urt no one, only themselves. But when it goes to the temper, I give you my word, miss, I’d rather do for a cage of howling wild beastises than what I would for a gentleman that’s bin crossed in love and gone to ’is temper.”
Hope, fear, shame, doubt, dance in Daphne’s heart that disreputable jig which is known as the “tumult of conflicting emotions.” She does not wish Mrs. Delarue to go on. But she hopes she will. She does. ”

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E. Nesbit, Daphne in Fitzroy Street — XXIII … (1909)

“ The “tumult of conflicting emotions” was tearing at her heart, goading it to mad leapings and flutterings as she crept up the staircase whose darkness a lamp with a blackened chimney only faintly mitigated. ”

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E. Nesbit, Daphne in Fitzroy Street — XXIII … (1909)

“ If you was to ’ang about on the stairs and then when the gentleman comes out you pops in—and there you are—and no thanks to me, I can see.”
“Mrs. Delarue, will you be quiet?” says Daphne, who has heard all she wants to hear. “You’ve no business to read Mr. Henry’s letters.”
“’E shouldn’t throw ’em in the fender then. Oh well, love’s a striving after the enertainible, ain’t it?” says Mrs. Delarue, and goes off with the empty dustpan, leaving Daphne to the angry certainty that she and he—her pursuit, his elusion—have been the subject of exhaustive discussion between Mrs. ”

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