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Updated: May 19, 2025
He shuddered at the unforgotten delights of the hour when they had met in her seraglio bower of shaded luxury, and "the fairest of Laocoons" had answered his passionate whisper, "Stoop down and seem to kiss me ere I die," with the faltered words: "Alan, you are all the world to me!" Fondly blind, he had drifted along in a Fool's Paradise, at her bidding, until the crash came!
It extended a long way back from the house, first as lawn and flower-beds, then as fruit-garden, where the long-tied espaliers, as old as the old house itself, had grown so stout, and cramped, and gnarled that they had pulled their stakes out of the ground and stood distorted and writhing in vegetable agony, like leafy Laocoons.
"Immensely," said Mr. Raleigh with a smile; "but, fortunately, for no great time." "We shall be soon at home? Then I must have slept." "Very like. What did you dream?" "Oh, one must not tell dreams before breakfast, or they come to pass, you know." "No, I am uninitiated in dream-craft. Mr. Heath" "Monsieur," she cried, with sudden heat, "il me semble que je comprends les Laocoons!
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