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If any daughter of his conceived the possibility of transferring her prime love and loyalty from himself to another, she was even as Aholah and Aholibah who doted upon the Assyrians, captains, and rulers clothed most gorgeously, all of them desirable young men.
These attacks of envy were short-lived he could not ascribe them to the reading of the little hornet-like anarchist sheet, Père Peinard, which the other waiters lent him; rather was it an excess of bile provoked by the coveted beauty of Aholibah. She usurped his day dreams, his night reveries. He never took a step without keeping her memory in the foreground.
He was rewarded for his fidelity with many valuable tips and latterly with gifts for on being questioned he was forced to admit that gratuities had to be shared with the other waiters. He was so amiable, his smile so winning, his admiration so virginal, that Aholibah kept him near her. Her Prince drank, sulked, or grumbled as much as ever.
He walked slowly home to his little chamber on the Rue Puteaux, just off the Batignolles. But he could not sleep until the street-cleaners began the work of another day.... The Woman from Morocco was the scarlet colour of his troubled dreams.... August had almost spent itself, and Aholibah remained in the arid and flavourless town.
She dressed winter and summer in scarlet, and her stage name was Aholibah bestowed upon her by some fantastic poet who had not read Ezekiel, but Swinburne. It was rumoured by her intimates that her real name was Clotilde Durval, that her mother had been a seamstress.... With a sinking at the heart Ambroise saw her enter in the company of the same gentleman she had brought the previous evening.
"When the vestry came to me about the case, I reminded them that Aholah and Aholibah were damned for doting upon paintings on the wall, painted in vermilion, which in plain English is Scarlett!" A covenanting gleam shot into his frosty eyes, and the old fighting Scotch blood showed for a second in his lank cheek.
Thus were their names; Samaria is Aholah, and Jerusalem Aholibah. And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbours, Which were clothed with blue, captains and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding upon horses.
Din glamour stink incessant movement interblended poverty and riches rubbing shoulders noisy self-interest side by side with introspective revery, where stray priests nodded in among the traders, many-peopled India surged in miniature between the four hot walls and through the passage to the overflowing street; changeable and unexplainable, in ever-moving flux, but more conservative in spite of it than the very rocks she rests on India who is sister to Aholibah and mother of all fascination.
Contents: A Master of Cobwebs The Eighth Deadly Sin The Purse of Aholibah Rebels of the Moon The Spiral Road A Mock Sun Antichrist The Eternal Duel The Enchanted Yodler The Third Kingdom The Haunted Harpsichord The Tragic Wall A Sentimental Rebellion Hall of the Missing Footsteps The Cursory Light An Iron Fan The Woman Who Loved Chopin The Tune of Time Nada Pan.
The starlight could not penetrate to the Boulevard through the harsh electric glare; and the whirring of wheels and laughter of the café's guests entered the soul of Ambroise like steel nails. She opened her eyes. "I am that Aholibah ... a witness through waste Asia ... that the strong men and the Captains knew ..." This line of Swinburne's was pronounced in the purest English.
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