E. Nesbit

Name: Daphne in Fitzroy Street — XXVI : BELOVED
Author: E. Nesbit

Daphne in Fitzroy Street — XXVI … (1909)

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“Daphne in Fitzroy Street — XXVI : BELOVED”, published in 1909, is a work by E. Nesbit. It explores elements such as Fitzroy Street, Daphne and pattern.

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

“ It was in this garden that Henry, sitting dejected on a stone seat that had been part of a Roman pillar, saw suddenly, beneath dazzling green and gold of moving leaves, Daphne of Fitzroy Street, moving toward him with sunshine in her hair as it had always been, and in her eyes, as always, the light of life.
So the time had come. He had known that it must come. One would have to learn to meet her as one meets people who have not the light of life in their eyes. ”

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

“ NEWS travels by odd channels—Things “get round,” as we say. And by one channel or another came to Henry the news of Daphne’s marriage to Stephen St. Hilary. It must have come from some acquaintance, if one comes to think of it, because it came to him in the street. He was on his way to a picture gallery, where there was a show by a new man, a genius. The tidings did not turn him aside from his purpose. He heard it, dropped a few banal flowers of speech on the bride’s path, and went on to his picture gallery. ”

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

“ It hurt me to hurt them and that made it seem noble, a sort of martyrdom, you know, for the sake of that damned art-fetish, as if art that was worth its salt couldn’t take care of itself without being kept in cotton wool. As if you could divorce art from life without ruining both. As if art wasn’t strong enough to live out of doors. ”

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

“ Do you believe in sudden conversions? I mean in a sort of kaleidoscope shifting of everything in life, when the pattern and the proportions and the colours all change suddenly, and can never be the same any more?”
“Of course I do,” she answered, and against her will remembered how the kaleidoscope had changed when Henry had kissed her—that first time, in the attic where the cisterns uttered their ceaseless cynical comment on life and love and destiny. ”

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

“ I see.”
“And being friends with other men, and letting all sorts of things that weren’t work get into your life—that seemed to me so fatal. And praise—I was afraid of that. I wanted to stand alone and be great—all to myself—I! It is amusing when you come to think of it, isn’t it?”
“Is it?” she said.
“And there were girls,” he went on, slowly.
“Yes,” said Daphne with the air of one who had never been a girl, “there always are.”
“It would,” he broke off to say reproachfully, “have been easier to say all this to Daphne of Fitzroy Street.” ”

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

“ Things do happen to people. That is what makes life so interesting. Things do so definitely and without doubt happen. I cannot explain what it was that happened now. All I know is—and this I only know because Henry afterwards said so—that something happened to him then and there, in the picture gallery, something that changed him, so that never any more could he be as he had been. ”

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

“ They do happen. One is converted from black to white, from white to black, by a sudden, convincing magic-lantern revelation, and, thereafter, life is never again at all the same. Religious people understand this; to mystics it is the A B C of their mysticism. To us, the common people, it is the great miracle. Whatever it is, it befell Henry. ”

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