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“I think of him, in those days, as a remote
figure — a square-shouldered silhouette posed motionless on the bridge against a background of burning blue sky.”
― Cage Bird, And Other Stories
figure — a square-shouldered silhouette posed motionless on the bridge against a background of burning blue sky.”
― Cage Bird, And Other Stories
“It was rather fun, as a matter of fact, to adventure into this world of make-believe; it gave her a feeling of rich, unexerted power; kept open a safe line of retreat with her boats unburned. His little, high-brow superiority was really comical — almost pathetic.”
― Cage Bird, And Other Stories
― Cage Bird, And Other Stories
“I want you to be my mistress.”
Of course she had known what was coming; yet, when it came, some radical prudishness within her was offended by the word. She stifled its promptings vigorously. They were unworthy of her — unworthy of her fine, free, emancipated, passionate modernity. What
would become of their frank and glorious equality, their high-flown theories, if she refused him? And yet...”
― Cage Bird, And Other Stories
Of course she had known what was coming; yet, when it came, some radical prudishness within her was offended by the word. She stifled its promptings vigorously. They were unworthy of her — unworthy of her fine, free, emancipated, passionate modernity. What
would become of their frank and glorious equality, their high-flown theories, if she refused him? And yet...”
― Cage Bird, And Other Stories
“Through all that period my mind was absorbed, excited and entranced by a series of visions that remain with me to this day. Gibraltar, grey and monstrous against the
dawn; the snows of Crete, flamingo-hued in the fire of sunset; Port Said, where first the smell of the East begins; pink mountains of Sinai in their lunar desolation; Colombo, sweltering under a vertical sun.”
― Cage Bird, And Other Stories
dawn; the snows of Crete, flamingo-hued in the fire of sunset; Port Said, where first the smell of the East begins; pink mountains of Sinai in their lunar desolation; Colombo, sweltering under a vertical sun.”
― Cage Bird, And Other Stories
“All the' expensive artificialities of life at Cannes, where one saw exactly the same people as at home in slightly thinner clothes, bored her equally. Their transplanted conventions made her feel a traitor to her kind. Her only relief from that hothouse atmosphere was to be found in the flowery foothills of the Maritime Alps, where she went for long, lonely walks, always thinking
of Cyril, in a pagan setting that called for his faun-like presence.”
― Cage Bird, And Other Stories
of Cyril, in a pagan setting that called for his faun-like presence.”
― Cage Bird, And Other Stories
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