Name: The Line of Love; Dizain des Mariages
Author: James Branch Cabell
ISBN: 978-1374934405

The Line of Love; Dizain des Mariages

By James Branch Cabell 9 May, 2020

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It is a tale which they narrate in Poictesme, telling how the love began between Florian de Puysange and Adelaide de la Forêt. They tell also how young Florian had earlier fancied other women for one reason or another; but that this, he knew, was the great love of his life, and a love which would endure unchanged as long as his life lasted. And the tale tells how the Comte de la Forêt stroked a gray beard, and said, "Well, after all, Puysange is a good fief—" "As if that mattered!" cried his daughter, indignantly. "My father, you are a deplorably sordid person." "My dear," replied the old gentleman, "it does matter. Fiefs last." So he gave his consent to the match, and the two young people were married on Walburga's Eve, on the day that ends April. And they narrate how Florian de Puysange was vexed by a thought that was in his mind. He did not know what this thought was. But something he had overlooked; something there was he had meant to do and had not done: and a troubling consciousness of this lurked at the back of his mind like a small formless cloud. All-day, while bustling about other matters, he had groped toward this unapprehended thought. Less

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