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I have so much to think of. THE TEMPLE YOUTH. I say, Chloe. Is there any sign of the Ancient yet? The hour of birth is overdue. The baby is kicking like mad. She will break her shell prematurely. The Maiden turns away through the grove and is lost to sight among the trees. Has Chloe been unkind? STREPHON. She has grown up in spite of all her promises. She deceived us about her age. She is four.
"A good conception," Royston said; "well, perhaps it would not be a pleasant song to sing, but better, I should think, than some of those dreadful sentimental ones. They are not much worse than the Strephon and the Chloe class, in which our ancestors delighted; still, they are indefensible.
MARTELLUS. She has bitten a piece out of his hand nearly as large as a finger nail: enough to kill ten men. There is no pulse, no breath. ECRASIA. But his thumb is clinched. MARTELLUS. No: it has just straightened out. See! He has gone. Poor Pygmalion! STREPHON. Hush, dear: thats childish. What a loss to Science! ARJILLAX. Who cares about Science? Serve him right for making that pair of horrors!
But there was nothing wrong in it, any more than in Amaryllis clinging to the embrace of Strephon in the whirling of a waltz. Custom reconciles to everything. On stepping into the small boat I had my first difficulty with Albert. I trod on his tail. The dog looked reproachfully, but did not moan. His mistress scowled, and warned me to take care what I was about for an awkward fool.
And so far from Strephon spending his time in sitting by a purling stream playing "roundelays" upon a pipe, poor fellow! he can scarcely afford to smoke one, his hours of labour are so long, and his wages are so small. As for Daphnis, he is a lout, and can neither read nor write; nor is his Chloe any better. Where, oh where, has this gentle shepherd gone? Have spinning-jennies swallowed him up?
STREPHON. But you don't know what this means to me. It means that you are dying to me: yes, just dying. We can talk quite as well without touching one another. Oh, this is the worst symptom of all! The ancients never touch one another. THE MAIDEN. Why should they? STREPHON. Oh, I don't know. But don't you want to touch me? You used to. THE MAIDEN. Yes: that is true: I used to.
The poor little old man knew some pale and vapid little songs, long out of date, about Chloe, and Phyllis, and Strephon being wounded by the son of Venus; and for Mrs Plornish there was no such music at the Opera as the small internal flutterings and chirpings wherein he would discharge himself of these ditties, like a weak, little, broken barrel-organ, ground by a baby.
Strephon appears by his Letter to be a very cholerick Lover, and irrevocably smitten with one that demurrs out of Self-interest. He tells me with great Passion that she has bubbled him out of his Youth; that she drilled him on to Five and Fifty, and that he verily believes she will drop him in his old Age, if she can find her Account in another.
Our Strephon may be chargeable with shyness. But if for the present it is incumbent on us, in proper consideration for the parties, not to be nominally precise, it is hardly requisite in this household that we should be. He is now for protesting indifference to the state. I fancy we understand that phase of amatory frigidity. Frankly, Mr.
"Oh, do!" begged Tiddy. Tiddy was Strephon, the leading juvenile, "a fairy down to his waist," and was passionately anxious to have the whole thing go through. "If you will I'll go and see what I can yank out of my old prep school. There ought to be enough boys with changed voices and long legs " "Harold Gray, you are inspired!" said Gail, for once shaken out of her indolence.
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