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Updated: June 4, 2025
In all literature there has been no finer passage written on the wounds caused by broken friendship than the lines in Christabel relating to the estrangement of Roland and Sir Leoline. After reading this poem and Kubla Khan, an unfinished dream fragment of fifty-four lines, we feel that the closing lines of Kubla Khan are peculiarly applicable to Coleridge:
At this new disclosure, Sir Norman stood perfectly petrified; and La Masque, looking down at the dreadful place at her feet, went rapidly on: "Alas and alas! that it should be so; but it is the direful truth. We bear the same name, we had the same father; and yet I have been the curse and bane of their lives." "And Leoline knows this?"
I confess I am somewhat curious myself; but I stand no chance of having it gratified before to-morrow, I suppose." "How those fires blaze! It is much brighter than at noon-day. Show me the house in which Leoline lies?". Ormiston easily pointed it out, and showed the earl the light still burning in her window. "It was in that room we found her first, dead of the plague!"
English officer brought Jemmy back too left him at Woolya that his own country lie out that way;" and he points eastward along the arm. Observing his reticence on the subject of Orundelico, the questioners forbear asking further, while other matters of more importance claim their attention. Meanwhile, Ocushlu is engaged in conversation with Mrs Gancy and Leoline.
"But I should, though!" said Leoline, with spirit "and most decidedly, too! "Every one to her fancy!" said Hubert, with a French shrug, "and my pretty sister shall have hers in spite of earth, air, fire, and water! And now, fair Leoline, for a brief time, adieu, and au revoir!" "You will not fail me!" exclaimed Leoline, earnestly, clasping her hands.
But he had been so shocked and subdued by his recent discovery, that the impulse which, half an hour before, would have been unhesitatingly obeyed, went for nothing, now; and there was more of reproach, even, than anger in his voice, as he went over and laid his hand on the shoulder of one of them. "Stay!" he said. "One word with you, Count L'Estrange. What have you done with Leoline!" "Ah!
"By what right does Count L'Estrange commit this outrage!" began Leoline, almost as imperiously as Miranda herself, and making use of her tongue, like a true woman, the very first moment it was at her disposal. "How dare he carry me off in this atrocious way? Whoever you are, sir, if you have the spirit of a man, you will bring me directly back to my own house."
Alick and Rachel could not but exchange a glance, and at the same moment, emerging through the screen of shrubs on the lawn, Bessie Keith, Conrade, Francis, and Leoline, were seen each with a mallet in hand and a gay ball in readiness to be impelled through the hoops that beset the lawn. "And you really are learning croquet!" exclaimed innocent Grace; "well, it makes a beautiful ground."
Sir Norman, a little portlier, a little graver, in the serious dignity of pater familias; and Leoline, with the dark, beautiful eyes, the falling, shining hair, the sweet smiling lips, and lovely, placid face of old.
Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain. And thus it chanced, as I divine, With Roland and Sir Leoline. Each spake words of high disdain And insult to his heart's best brother They parted ne'er to meet again!
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