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So he becomes the best critic, almost the discoverer, of Webster, a dramatist of genius so sombre, so heavily coloured, so macabre. Rosamund Grey, written in his twenty-third year, a story with something bitter and exaggerated, an almost insane fixedness of gloom perceptible in it, strikes clearly this note in his work.
"The Danse Macabre," said Cicely to her companion; "one of Saint-Saens' best known pieces." "Is it?" said Larry indifferently; "I'll take your word for it. 'Fraid I don't know much about music." "You dear boy, that's just what I like in you," said Cicely; "you're such a delicious young barbarian." "Am I?" said Larry. "I dare say. I suppose you know."
From his vantage point he saw the pale-blue chauffeur hold open the door of the pale-blue limousine. A few loiterers gaped. By an ironical chance a barrel-organ in the next street began to grind out the riotous, familiar gallop. It sounded far-off like a jeering echo: "I'm Gyp Labelle; If you dance with me You dance to my tune. . ." A danse macabre.
Those two men were much of the same build, though of course d'Alcacer, quietly alive and spiritually watchful, did not resemble Jorgenson, who, without being exactly macabre, behaved more like an indifferent but restless corpse. Those two could not be said to have ever conversed together. Conversation with Jorgenson was an impossible thing. Even Lingard never attempted the feat.
Later still: "I'm here to see life," he told a woman with a chalky countenance, a countenance without any expression of the consciousness of the sound of his voice, a vague form lost in loose draperies. "Life," he emphasized above the continuous, macabre rattle of a piano. In a breathless, hot dawn pouring redly into the grey city street, he swayed like a pendulum on the steaming pavement.
St. Macarius is frequently introduced in the pictures of this subject; and some antiquaries suppose that hence the Dance of Death derived the name, Dance Macabre, by which it used to be generally known. Others derive it from the Arabic mac-bourah, a cemetery. Neither derivation is improbable; but it is of little consequence to us which is correct.
Fantastic shadows danced macabre in the light of the candles; they were the only furniture of that part of the rough dwelling that the owner shuffled through as quickly as he could to save his guest from spying too closely the barrenness of the land. He went first to the outer door with the candle before he said good night, drew back great bars, and opened the oak.
All my dead leaves, they hang to me and and go through a kind of danse macabre 'But you bud underneath like beech, he said quickly. 'Really, my friend, she said coldly, 'I am too tired to bud. 'No, he pleaded, 'no! With his thick brows knitted, he surveyed her anxiously. She had received a great blow in August, and she still was stunned.
Almost opposite the northern porch of the church, we find the entrance to what was formerly the burying ground of Saint-Maclou, which answered the same purpose in Rouen, as that of the SAINT-INNOCENTS, in Paris. M.E.-H. Langlois has discovered, on the columns of the buildings which surrounded this ancient churchyard, the fragments, unfortunately almost shapeless, of a macabre dance.
"Long ago," says Dutch, and his sigh evokes a procession of marvelous ghosts tattooed from head to toe and capering like a company of debonair totem poles over the cobblestones of another South State Street. But the macabre days are gone. The Barnum bacchanal of the nineties lies in its grave with a fading lithograph for a tombstone.
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