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Updated: June 4, 2025
This buoyant, clear-faced, stalwart figure had sprung suddenly out of the dark into the garish light of sovereign place, and the imagination of the people had been touched. He was so genial too, so easy-mannered, this d'Avranche of Jersey, whose genealogy had been posted on a hundred walls and carried by a thousand mouths through the principality.
Disappointed in her ambition, betrayed in her love, humiliated, duped, degraded a social failure. What had she to live for? She felt as if it would have been a good thing, quite the best thing that could happen, if she could turn her face to the wall and die. All that past season, its triumphs, its pleasures, its varieties, was like a garish dream, a horror to look back upon, hateful to remember.
Had the dawn been reaching up above the dark walls that shut the east away from the high tree-tops, the garish street light would have kept it dim.
His kind eyes glistened. "And now on every wall of the old house there is one of my pictures in a beautiful gold frame." He glowed with happy pride. I thought of those cold scenes of his, with their picturesque peasants and cypresses and olive-trees. They must look queer in their garish frames on the walls of the peasant house.
The garish light of day, as it streamed over the dungeon floor, revealed the fact that the shattered frame of the Italian slave had found rest at last. The soldiers looked fagged and dishevelled. Many of them wore bandages about their heads and limbs.
'Cross my heart!" The old good foolish words of the old safe days, here, now, in this hideous and garish present! With that pledge she was visibly able to give herself to a livelier hope. "But of course Yaqui Juan got through to the Grants' hacienda! Can you imagine him failing us, Jimsy?" He shook his head. "He'll make it if any man living could."
It was late in the afternoon when I arrived, and raining; and as I walked in great streets, of the very name of which I was quite ignorant double, treble, and quadruple lines of horse-cars jingling by hundred-fold wires of telegraph and telephone matting heaven above my head huge, staring houses, garish and gloomy, flanking me from either hand the thought of the Rue Racine, ay, and of the cabman's eating-house, brought tears to my eyes.
Shading his eyes in the flood of garish light, he gazed around at the twenty round tables. Six alert barkeepers lurked in front of the superb mirrors behind the rich walnut counters gleaming with crystal and silver. The music of the Orchestrion bore away on its flood of Strauss waltzes the shrill chatter of women's laughter in the inside hell of the private rooms.
His dog-like fidelity surrounded her with unfailing service. The ayah had gone, and he had slipped into her place as naturally as if he had always occupied it. Even now, while Stella stood at her window gazing forth into the garish moonlight, was he softly padding to and fro in the room adjoining hers, hushing the poor little wailing infant to sleep.
He did not know whether his intended reply would alienate the Duke or not, but if it did, then he must bear it. He had come, as he thought, to the crux of this adventure. All in a moment he was recalled again to his real position. The practical facts of his life possessed him. He was standing between a garish dream and commonplace realities. Old feelings came back the old life.
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