John Galsworthy

Name: From The Four Winds — The Demi-Gods
Author: John Galsworthy

From The Four Winds — The Demi-Gods (1897)

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“From The Four Winds — The Demi-Gods”, published in 1897, is a work by John Galsworthy. It explores elements such as Pietro, Nicolas and San Felice.

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John Galsworthy, From The Four Winds — The Demi-Gods (1897)

“ Pighead, what good to shake thy bell! It is not good sitting here, for I have only money for one—two—three—yes, for four drinkings, in my pouch, and the last a little one, and the day is hot. Eleven of the clock, for there begins the morning tolling from San Felice. Where be these fools of strangers? There be many things to see, also my chariot is very strong, and beautiful exceedingly, and my good grey Nicolas, is he not a most willing puller, being still young and lusty? ”

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John Galsworthy, From The Four Winds — The Demi-Gods (1897)

“ The carriage rolled slowly along the white and dusty road by the lake-side, the tired horse picking his own way, the pleasantly drunken Pietro heavily asleep on his box.
In the fast gathering dusk they came to the iron railway bridge that carved the lake into two halves. The carriage road and railway track lay parallel across the bridge, divided only by a high partition of iron-work running its entire length. The gates of each lay open, and a level crossing tempted the unguided horse past the gate of the road on to the lines of the railway. ”

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John Galsworthy, From The Four Winds — The Demi-Gods (1897)

“ The chime floated faintly past them with a note of invitation.
'The bells have got into my head, darling. I'm mad, I think,—I can't feel anything—Child of mine, come for a drive, and find the bells; we'll get drunk on sun, and air, and sky, and mountains, and—kisses, and forget there is a to-morrow and an ending.'
He stood up straight and strong, and drew her to him. ”

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John Galsworthy, From The Four Winds — The Demi-Gods (1897)

“ The lucky shoulder! and before she has looked, Nicolas gives a big pull so that both sit down on a sudden, upon their ends, and laugh greatly.
'They laugh always, these—when they do not sigh, and when they sigh sometimes there comes also to my ears another sound, very gentle, like the end of a good drinking. Can they already, then, be thirsty? Why, even I, Pietro, am not yet thirsty, but soon shall be. ”

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John Galsworthy, From The Four Winds — The Demi-Gods (1897)

“ Chickenheads! it is now of a surety they are mad—I, Pietro, who am a celebration! I too laugh, and so we laugh all three, until we come to where there is good drinking.
' "Goutez un petit peu," I speak to them in that fool's tongue—this much knowing, and that quite enough.
' "Si, si," they say, and nod their tops, yet do not descend. Certainly they have drunk upon the voyage, for the day is hot. Well, well, I, Pietro, am thirsty and so inwards; Nicolas also will drink, but not of the Asti that bubbles sweet and yellow. Ai! Good! Very good drinking; is it not so, my pighead? ”

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John Galsworthy, From The Four Winds — The Demi-Gods (1897)

“ I have seen one or two fairer amongst my own race; but never amongst these strangers, wearing nets on their faces, with blue looking-glasses for their eyes, and very thick garments of a sad colour.
'And so on and on past the great Mother, Nicolas drawing with a good stomach to where rises the long hill to San Felice, and ever comes clearer the great chime, it being now the second pulling of it. ”

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John Galsworthy, From The Four Winds — The Demi-Gods (1897)

“ Also have I seen in shops figures of porcelain of a delicate transparence, so that a man can look at things through them, that are greatly like her; so it seems also the he finds her, for whenever she points and bids him to be looking at the things around, he regards straightly and without winking at her eyeballs, or—so often as I am observing at her eyelashes, which she then, it seems, wears long upon her cheeks. ”

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John Galsworthy, From The Four Winds — The Demi-Gods (1897)

“ These are no doubt mad, they have a very queer look, their eyes are all shiny, and they sit very close together, though even I, Pietro, am hot, sitting up here alone on the head of my chariot.
'Ting-a-ling, ting- a-ling, sighs my old friend the bell, as Nicolas shakes his ears at the road; si, si, amico, it is long, and it is white, and—pouff—dusty, and in places even steep.
'Yes, now I know for a certainty they are mad; it is not for them the road either too long or too steep or too dusty ”

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