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He discovered that it was impossible to trace Jules Thessaly's year at Oxford for the same reason that it was impossible to trace anything else in his history. One man knew another man whose brother was at Oriel with Thessaly; a second man had heard of a third man who distinctly remembered him at Magdalen. The vicar's cousin, a stockbroker, said that Thessaly's father had been a Greek adventurer.
Humanity has grown larger since the wolf suckled Romulus, but no wiser, and strong wine is not for weak intellects." He laid his hand upon the typed pages of The Key. "Is our friendship staunch enough to sustain the shock of real candour, Mario?" Paul was deeply and unaccountably moved by something in Thessaly's manner. "I trust so," he replied. "Then forgive me burn The Key.
In the narrow thoroughfare connecting Victoria Street with that in which Thessaly's flat was situated were a number of curious shops devoted to the sale of church ornaments, altar candlesticks, lecterns, silk banners, cassocks and birettas, statuettes of the Virgin, crucifixes and rosaries.
For long after the cab had passed around the corner Paul stood by the archway staring in that direction, but presently he aroused himself and returned to the courtyard. He tried the handle of James's door but learned that the bolt remained fastened, whereupon he determined to proceed to Thessaly's flat. A definite change had taken place in the relations existing between himself and Flamby.
When first he had seen her awaiting him upon the platform his eyes had lighted up in that ardent way which she loved, and he had pressed her hands very hard in greeting. But thereafter he had become absorbed again in his giant dreams, and now as they sped through the London streets homeward, he bent forward, one hand resting upon Thessaly's knee, wrapped up in the companionship of his memories.
Then Fionn mac Uail made a feast and a banquet for the jovial god, and with that the tale is ended of the King of Thessaly's son and the Carl of the Drab Coat. Fionn mac Uail was the most prudent chief of an army in the world, but he was not always prudent on his own account.
Already he floated above the common world, looking down upon its tortured contours and half-defaced frontiers for the true poet is a fakîr who quits his physical body at the beck of inspiration, to return laden with strange secrets. Jules Thessaly's letter explaining his extraordinary breach of good behaviour had been characteristic of the man.
To-night I am going to Thessaly's, and I wish you could join the party. He would welcome you, I know." "Impossible, unfortunately. I am dining with a man who was attached to us for a time." "Don't fill up your entire programme, Don, and leave no room for me. Give me at least one whole day." "To-morrow, then." "Splendid.
From a catechism Jules Thessaly's words had developed into a profession of faith, and Paul, who stood watching the speaker, grew suddenly aware a phenomenon which all have experienced that such a profession had been made to him before, that he had stood thus on some other occasion and had heard the same words spoken. He knew what Jules Thessaly was about to say.
The rain-swept deserted streets made a curious appeal to Paul that night an appeal to something in his mood that was feverish and unquiet, that first had stirred in response to an apparently chance remark of Thessaly's and that had sent him out to seek Flamby in despite of the weather and the late hour.
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