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The sort of Promethean defiance you're talking about would be inconceivable to a child like that." "I suppose it would, to most of them," she admitted, "but this one's going to be different. After all, it's the exceptional ones that usually have operas written about them. I don't believe all the dancers in Alexandria were like Thais, nor all the gipsy cigar-makers in Seville like Carmen.
The holy man watched this incident, and as, by virtue of his holiness, he easily comprehended the mystic sense of all occurrences, he knew that the captive bird was no other than Thais, caught in the snares of sin, and that like the plover that had cut the hempen threads with its beak he could, by pronouncing the word of power, break the invisible bonds by which Thais was held in sin.
It is so long since kisses were first exchanged that it would be very extraordinary if there still remained secrets in love. On this subject lovers know more than philosophers." "Do not jest, Thais. I bring thee the unknown love." "Friend, you come too late. I know every kind of love." "The love that I bring thee abounds with glory, whilst the loves that thou knowest breed only shame."
Is it not true, Jesus, that Thou art here present, and that Thou showest me in reality Thy precious body? Is not Thy face here, and that tear which flows down Thy cheek a real tear? Yes, the angel of eternal justice shall receive it, and it shall be the ransom of the soul of Thais. Art Thou not here, Jesus? Jesus, Thy loving lips open. Thou canst speak; speak, I hear Thee!
The above mentioned two volumes of poetry were followed by many works in prose, which we shall notice. He combines in his style traces of Racine, Voltaire, Flaubert, and Renan, and, indeed, some of his novels, especially 'Thais' , 'Jerome Coignard' , and Lys Rouge , which was crowned by the Academy, are romances of the first rank.
'Le Portrait de Manon, a delicate little sketch in one act, and 'Thaïs, a clever setting of Anatole France's beautiful romance, both produced in 1894, will not be likely to add much to Massenet's reputation. 'La Navarraise, produced during the same year in London, was apparently an attempt to imitate the melodramatic extravagance of Mascagni.
I see the angels, the prophets, and the saints. . . . The good Theodore is amongst them, his hands filled with flowers; he smiles on me and calls me. . . . Two angels come to me. They draw near. . . . How beautiful they are! I see God!" She uttered a joyful sigh, and her head fell back motionless on the pillow. Thais was dead.
I felt as though I must have lived before, as though I must have known this woman. "And Villon's lines came to my mind like a sob: Tell me where, and in what place Is Flora, the beautiful Roman, Hipparchia and Thais Who was her cousin-german? Echo answers in the breeze O'er river and lake that blows, Their beauty was above all praise, But where are last year's snows?
Some of the silver ornaments might have assembled in the garish boudoir of a Parisian fille de joie, as the carved woman might have been the couch to which Thais tempted Paphnuce, and the Indian boys the lifeless slaves of Aphrodite.
Long colonnades stretched on both sides of the deserted street, and at the end shone the dome of Alexander's tomb. Here and there on the pavement lay broken wreaths and extinguished torches. Fresh wafts of the sea could be felt in the air. Paphnutius, with a look of disgust, tore off his rich robe and trampled the fragments under his feet. "Thou hast heard them, my Thais!" he cried.
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