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Updated: May 8, 2025
He finally succeeds in making one which seems to be almost endowed with life, but only to be informed that it is no better than a toy, and that he has wasted his time on a thing which has no practical value. The Artist of the Beautiful is Hawthorne himself; and in this exquisite fable he has not only unfolded the secret of all high art, but his own life-secret as well.
When he was gone she heard the rain drenching the walnuts outside, dripping, dripping; the thunder rolled down the valley; the fire crackled and flashed. There, on the table, in the dirty morocco case, lay a Mystery, a tremendous Life-secret, no doubt, of which she, Kitty, held the clue. It was like Pepita when she found the little gold key that unlocked the enchanted rooms. Hugh Guinness living?
For if you come, you must stay!" A thrill ran through her blood. "I must stay!" she echoed "Why?" "Because you have learned the Life-Secret," answered the Voice "And, as you have learned it, so must you live. I will tell you more if you care to hear " An inrush of energy came to her as she listened she felt that the unseen speaker acknowledged the power which she herself knew she possessed.
But for that strange chance of Delafield's appearance in her path a chance no more intelligible to her now, after the pondering of several feverish hours, than it had been at the moment of her first suspicion where and what would she be now? A dishonored woman, perhaps, with a life-secret to keep; cut off, as her mother had been, from the straight-living, law-abiding world.
Besides, one ought to draw the line at one's life-secret. She was entitled, in fact, to maintain silence. That Vaudrey should question her so, caused her horrible suffering. "And you, Marianne," he said, "you torture me much more by not replying to me, to whom the least detail of your life is interesting.
For Serbs and Bulgars have always been hypnotized by Macedonia. Their gaze is fixed on that land as by some magic fascination, which interest and reason are powerless to break. They think of the future development, nay of the very existence of their respective nations, as indissolubly intertwined with it. To lose Macedonia, therefore, is to forfeit the life-secret of nation.
"Not always," I pursued, "or I should not be here, you know. It rests with you to keep or let me go " "To ruin my child's husband! There, now! you have my life-secret," she said, with a desperate gesture; "use it as you will." I understood more than ever the hopelessness of my case from the moment of that impulsive revelation, to which I made no answer.
Despite her bearing of worldly self-assurance, despite the atmosphere of modishness about her, there was in her charm something wild and vivid, vernal and remote, like the arbutus which, alone among flowers, keeps its life-secret virgin and inviolate, resisting all endeavors to make it bloom except in its own way and in its own chosen places.
'But how did your egg get HERE? asked Anthea. 'Ah, that's my life-secret, said the Phoenix. 'I couldn't tell it to any one who wasn't really sympathetic. I've always been a misunderstood bird. You can tell that by what they say about the worm. I might tell YOU, it went on, looking at Robert with eyes that were indeed starry. 'You put me on the fire Robert looked uncomfortable.
Tom retired to bed the night after his mother had confided to him the history of his father's business trials, feeling that she had conferred an honor upon him in thus sharing with him her life-secret, and that he understood his parents as he never did before.
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