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I had once more the notion about the gigantic genii I fancied that enormous Egyptian faces, of the dead reds and yellows of Egypt, were staring in at each window of our little lamp-lit room as at a lighted stage of marionettes. My companion went on playing with the pistol in front of him, and talking with the same rather creepy confidentialness.
We should ask ourselves whether in spite of all its confidentialness Trilby makes an intimate revelation. The rare quality of intimacy, that is the greatest thing in the very greatest novels. The "boom" of Trilby, we are told, surprised du Maurier immensely, for he had not taken himself au sérieux as a novelist. Indeed it rather distressed him when he reflected that Thackeray never had a "boom."
"How deliciously unselfish!" she exclaimed. "You will next be resigning the Princess to His Grace of Lotzen." "Quite between ourselves, I'll be doing nothing of the sort," I said, with mock confidentialness. "Nevertheless, I think I'll tell the Duke he has only to wait," said she. "And I'll confide to Courtney he has only to ask to be taken," I returned. She laughed.
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