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Updated: June 14, 2025
Alwyn's 'Nourhalma, people really take such slight interest in writers of verse, that it is hardly ever worth while interviewing them!" "Precisely!" agreed Villiers ironically, "The private history of a prize-fighter would naturally be much more thrilling!"
Come, place thyself at ease upon this cushioned couch, and give me thy attention, ... I feel the fervor rising within me, ... I will summon Zabastes, ... " Here he pulled a small silken cord which at once set a clanging bell echoing loudly through the palace, ... "And thou shalt freely hear, and freely judge, the last offspring of my fertile genius, my lyrical romance 'Nourhalma!" Theos started violently, ... he had the greatest difficulty to restrain the anguished cry that arose to his lips.
Truth to tell, he was inwardly overcome with shame to remember how wantonly he had copied the description of this same Nourhalma! ... and plaintively he wondered how he could have unconsciously committed so flagrant a theft! Summoning up all his self-possession, however, he answered bravely.
'Tis an unequal simile, my friend! as well compare a fiery planet with a twinkling dewdrop, as draw a parallel between the heroic ideal maid 'Nourhalma' and my fluttering singing-bird, Niphrata!" Theos sighed involuntarily, but forcing a smile, let the subject drop and held his peace, while Sah-luma, taking up the thread of his poetical narrative, went on reciting.
Why, good Theos, there is none! not the least in the world, for this heroine of mine, Nourhalma, loves in vain, and sacrifices all, even her innocent and radiant life, for love, as thou wilt hear in the second half of the poem, moreover she loves one who is utterly unworthy of her faithful tenderness.
"You're too quick-witted, Alwyn, positively you are!" he remonstrated with a frankly humorous smile.. "But as it happens, you're perfectly right! Not ONE critic, but THREE, three of our most influential men, too thought you WERE dead! and that 'Nourhalma' was a posthumous work of PERISHED GENIUS!"
"Such, my dear fellow," he went on complacently.. "is the history of the success of 'Nourhalma. It certainly began with the belief that you were no longer able to benefit by the eulogy received. but all the same that eulogy has been uttered and cannot be UNuttered.
He looked at Sah-luma, not enviously now but all admiringly, it seemed to him that he had never heard a sweeter, tenderer music than the story of "Nourhalma" as recited by his friend.
By Nagaya's Shrine! what a feast 'twill be for my delectation!" and he rubbed his hands gleefully "With what a weight of withering analysis I can pulverize this idol of 'Nourhalma' into the dust and ashes of a common sense contempt!"
Good heavens! ... "Nourhalma," as I understand it, is a sort of pagan poem but with such incredible ideas and sentiments as are expressed in it, the author might as well go and be a Christian at once! And with that he hobbled off, for it was Sunday afternoon, and he was on his way to St.
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