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Updated: June 12, 2025
The burden of Michael Angelo's thought was too tremendous to be borne by virginal or graceful beings. He had to make women no less capable of suffering, no less world-wearied, than his country. Standing before these statues, we do not cry. How beautiful! We murmur, How terrible, how grand! Yet, after long gazing, we find them gifted with beauty beyond grace.
Her first wrong step had been her marriage, and though it had given her a good deal in the beginning, in the end how it had robbed her!... ah! how it had robbed her of those things that could never be won back. And now, by an unlooked-for turn of events, she found herself among the world-wearied ones, asking for the divine freshness of youth.
The young woman would have been fair to look upon, or at least fascinating, to the most world-wearied and listless man of the present day. She stood there, easily and gracefully, her arms and part of her breast, above, and her legs from about the knees, below, showing clearly from beneath her covering of skins.
Six months had been spent in this abode six months of an existence of joy and love, untroubled as it could be to those who were yet dwellers upon earth six months in which the fastidious and world-wearied man learned the secret of true peace in a life devoted to useful and benevolent objects when a most unexpected visitor arrived in the person of Sir Edward Maitland no, not Sir Edward.
She pauses at the threshold. "Will madame ask Georgette to look over the property of madame?" "Certainly. Send her to me!" Marie Berard leaves her world-wearied mistress, forever, and without a word. When the other maid enters, madame finds need for the assistant. "You may remain in my apartment and occupy the maid's couch. I may want you. I am nervous. Stay!"
"Well, and did it sound any different from what it did last year, and the year before, and the year before that?" inquired in measured, world-wearied tones the dampener of ardors. No, my poor friend, it did not.
The deed brings widespread desolation, but to this he is indifferent, for it means the destruction of the prison against which his desires have always beaten their wings, the destruction of a material and social universe from which he has always longed to be free. "O, here Will I set up my everlasting rest, And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars From this world-wearied flesh."
Ah, how I expected them, awaited them, devoured them! from the first tender response that came in answer to mine, to the last little darling oblong-enveloped, dainty hand-written missive I received ere I shook off the dust of the "Empire City" from my New- World-wearied feet, and left Sandy Hook behind me!
There were Moro chiefs, looking world-wearied and indifferent, followed by their attendant slaves; there were thrifty Moros willing to sell one anything from a kris or a barong to the very clothes on their backs; there were handsome young Moro blades, who stared shyly at the strange white faces and chatted volubly the while in their soft Malay tongue; there were Philippine market women in camisa and panuela, some of them carrying large, flat baskets of vegetables or fruits on their heads, the green of ripe oranges and bananas making an effective splash of colour above their dusky hair; there were a few, a very few, Moro women, as I have said before, and they wrapped themselves more closely in their sarongs as we approached, smiling at us broadly with the utmost friendliness, their blackened teeth behind red, betel-stained lips reminding one irresistibly of watermelon seeds in the fruit.
Larcher sat silently wondering what other dramas were comprised in the history of his singular companion, besides that wherein Bagley was concerned, and that in which the fickle woman had borne a part. He found himself interested, on his own account, in this haggard-eyed, world-wearied, yet not unattractive man, as well as for Miss Hill.
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