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Updated: May 29, 2025
There was a strenuous gayety in the air; everybody was in the best of spirits. At every moment a group of men involved themselves in uproarious horse-play. They passed oblique jokes behind their hands to each other grossly veiled double-meanings meant for the women and bellowed with laughter thereat, stamping on the ground.
'The commonplace injustice of a by-word, Otto cried. 'The partiality of sex. She is a demirep; what then is Gondremark? Were she a man 'It would be all one, retorted Gotthold roughly. 'When I see a man, come to years of wisdom, who speaks in double-meanings and is the braggart of his vices, I spit on the other side. "You, my friend," say I, "are not even a gentleman."
"The commonplace injustice of a by-word," Otto cried. "The partiality of sex. She is a demirep; what then is Gondremark? Were she a man " "It would be all one," retorted Gotthold roughly. "When I see a man, come to years of wisdom, who speaks in double-meanings and is the braggart of his vices, I spit on the other side.
She refuses to move until Tristan has come in to ask her pardon "for trespass black and base." Here she begins to speak in terrible double-meanings: it is not Tristan's discourtesy on the voyage he must apologise for, but the more tragic occurrences leading up to his bearing her away to Cornwall. She orders Brangaena to prepare the draught, and awaits her victim.
And now he saw meanings in the simple passages, and none at all in the intricate ones; and the double-meanings were monsters that ate one another up till nothing remained of them. In the end, however, he made a wrathful guess and came to a resolution, which brought him to the door of the house next day at noon.
You said it, yes, you said it! but I recollect it clearly. Oh, as for your double-meanings, you said the thing, and you jeered at the incapacity of English families to live together, on account of bad temper; and now you are the first to break up our union! I decidedly do not profess to be a perfect Jew, but I do . . ."
And now he saw meanings in the simple passages, and none at all in the intricate ones; and the double-meanings were monsters that ate one another up till nothing remained of them. In the end, however, he made a wrathful guess and came to a resolution, which brought him to the door of the house next day at noon.
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