![]() ![]() For the two families had more to resent than the widower's seemingly whimsical acceptance of his wife's death. ![]() She saw her duty in any opportunity at true Christian umbrage. Aunt May was his father's sister, a barren steadfast woman, Calvinistically faithful to the man who had been Reverend Gwyon before him. Buried over there with a lot of dead Catholics, was Aunt May's imprecation. He had had a fondness for traveling, earlier in his life and it was this impulse to extend his boundaries which had finally given chance the field necessary to its operation (in this case, a boat bound out for Spain), and cost the life of the woman he had married six years before. ![]() The Spanish affair was the way Reverend Gwyon referred -to it afterwards: not casually, but with an air of reserved preoccupation. But the procession up the foreign hill, bounded by cypress trees, impelled by the monotone chanting of the priest and retarded by hesitations at the fourteen stations of the Cross (not to speak of the funeral carriage in which she was riding, a white horse-drawn vehicle which resembled a baroque confectionery stand), mighthave ruffled the shy countenance of her soul, if it had been discernible. Goethe, Faust II Even Camilla had enjoyed masquerades, of the safe sort where the mask may be dropped at that critical moment it presumes itself as reality. PART I THE FIRST TURN OF THE SCREW MEPHISTOPHELES (leiser): Was gibt es denn? WAGNER (leiser): Es wird ein Mensch gemacht.
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