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Updated: May 16, 2025
"Oh, not to say their prayers, you may be sure, old misogynist, but this being a gala-night at the Palace, the girls and fiddlers were ordered up by De Pean, and we will see you dance fandangoes with them until morning, Cadet." "No you won't! Damn the women! I wish you had kept them away, that is all. It spoils my fun, Bigot!" "But it helps the Company's! Here they come!"
Rows of colored lamps were set thickly along the shore, and disposed everywhere among the rocks on which the Crossman House stands; lights glistened from all the islands, from a thousand row-boats, and in all the windows. It was very like Venice, seen from the lagoon, when the Italians make a gala-night.
Probably there is not anywhere a more rusty, forlorn town, and this in spite of its magnificent situation. It is a gala-night when we rattle down the rough streets, and have pointed out to us the somber government buildings. The Halifax Club House is a blaze of light, for the Governor-General is being received there, and workmen are still busy decorating the Provincial Building for the great ball.
Probably there is not anywhere a more rusty, forlorn town, and this in spite of its magnificent situation. It is a gala-night when we rattle down the rough streets, and have pointed out to us the somber government buildings. The Halifax Club House is a blaze of light, for the Governor-General is being received there, and workmen are still busy decorating the Provincial Building for the great ball.
Rows of colored lamps were set thickly along the shore, and disposed everywhere among the rocks on which the Crossman House stands; lights glistened from all the islands, from a thousand row-boats, and in all the windows. It was very like Venice, seen from the lagoon, when the Italians make a gala-night.
And if you ask about his "philosophy of life," let the Conqueror Worm make answer: "Lo! Tis a Gala-Night Within the lonesome latter years " Is not that an arresting commencement? The word "Gala-Night" has it not the very malice of the truth of things? Like Heine, it gave this poet pleasure not only to love the Dead, but to love feeling himself dead.
It now only remains for us to return to the familiar human Stage; to the "Gala-Night, within the lonesome latter years," and be gay, and "hard," and "superficial"! That ice-bound Promontory into the Truth of Things has only known one Explorer whose "Eloi, Eloi Lama Sabachthani" was not the death-cry of his Pity. And that Explorer did we only dream of his Return?
Probably there is not anywhere a more rusty, forlorn town, and this in spite of its magnificent situation. It is a gala-night when we rattle down the rough streets, and have pointed out to us the somber government buildings. The Halifax Club House is a blaze of light, for the Governor-General is being received there, and workmen are still busy decorating the Provincial Building for the great ball.
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