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Updated: May 22, 2025
With a master-touch, Sophocles has made the end of "Antigone" the dead after-calm of evil action a desolate despair. Slowly the group upon the stage melted away. Creon, with his hopeless cry upon his lips, "Death! Death! Only death!" moved with a weary languor toward the palace and slowly disappeared in the darkness beyond the ruined portal.
She prayed to Christ, but looked at Richard. He dared speak for Christ. 'What sacrifice, my child? 'I give Thee the hero who has lain upon my breast; I give Thee the marriage-bed, the cap of the Count. I give Thee the kisses, the clinging together, the vows, the long bliss where none may speak. I give Thee the language of love, the strife, the after-calm, the assurance, the hope and the promise.
What did a woman want? A love storm, and then an endless after-calm. And it had taken him twenty-odd years to make this discovery. Fact. He had never been shy of women. He had somehow preferred to play comrade instead of gallant; and all the women had taken advantage of that, used him callously to pair with old maids, faded wives, and homely debutantes.
It was only when they sat again in the blissful after-calm of their understanding, that he felt the pricking of an unappeased distrust. "Did Madame de Treymes give you any reason for this change of front?" he risked asking, when he found the distrust was not otherwise to be quelled. "Oh, yes: just what I've said. It was really her admiration of you of your attitude your delicacy.
I know summat as what Hagar felt when hoo said, "Let me not see th' deeath o' th' child" I do so. The younger woman wept, and the tears brought relief to her pent-up heart. She had found a mother's ear for her mother's sorrow; and the after-calm of a great grief was now falling over her.
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