Robert Hichens

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La sua et era dibattuta, e cos anche la sua origine. La maggior parte delle persone pensava che avesse "circa quarant'anni"; un'et molto sicura, abbastanza giovane da consentire aspettative quasi illimitate, abbastanza vecchia da rendere i risultati raggiunti non del tutto innaturali, anche se forse sorprendenti. S , deve avere "circa quarant'anni". E la sua origine? "Meyer" ha suggerito la Germania. Quanto a "Isaacson", ha permesso all'ardente immaginazione di giocare liberamente su Israele denazionalizzato. Qualcuno ha detto che "sembrava venire dall'Est", al che un cinico ha risposto: "L'East End". Forse c'era un accenno di entrambi nel Dottore di Cleveland Square. Certo che nel corso di una passeggiata per Brick Lane, o per le strade adiacenti, si incontreranno uomini del suo genere; uomini di statura media, di corporatura snella, con capelli folti e fitti che crescono fortemente arricciati, labbra fortemente arcuate, narici grandi, zigomi prominenti, occhi scuri quasi ferocemente lucenti; uomini che sono sorprendentemente poco inglesi. Il dottor Meyer Isaacson era come questi uomini. Eppure possedeva qualcosa che lo distingueva da loro. Sembrava intensamente vitale - quasi innaturalmente vitale - quando era circondato da inglesi, ma non sembrava feroce e affamato. Si poteva immaginare che facesse qualcosa di bizzarro, ma non si poteva concepire che facesse qualcosa di basso. A volte c'era una luce nei suoi occhi che suggeriva una distinzione morale raramente riscontrabile in coloro che abitano a Brick Lane e nei suoi dintorni. Le sue mani esili e nervose, di colore scuro, ricordavano le mani degli egiziani di alta razza. Come tanti nella sua nazione, era per sua natura un artista. Un amore istintivo per ci che c'era di meglio nelle creazioni dell'uomo gli scorreva nelle vene con il suo sangue. Amava le cose belle e sapeva cosa erano belle e cosa no. Il second'ordine non gli ha mai fatto appello. Il primato trovava in lui un accogliente entusiasta. Non si stancava mai di guardare bei quadri, statue nobili, bronzi, vecchi vetri ingioiellati, intagli delicati, gioielli perfetti. Era sinceramente commosso dalla grande architettura. E alla musica era quasi fanaticamente devoto.

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"We want a new note in English music," said Charmian, in her clear and slightly authoritative voice. "The Hallelujah Chorus era has gone at last to join all the Victorian relics. And the nation is drifting musically. Of course we have a few composers who are being silly in the attempt to be original, and a few others who still believe that all the people can stand in the way of home-grown products is a ballad or a Te Deum. But what we want is an English composer with a soul. I'm getting quite sick of heads. They are bearable in literature. But when it comes to music, one's whole being clamors for more." "I have heard a new note in English music," observed a middle-aged, bald and lively-looking man, who was sitting on the opposite side of the drawing-room in Berkeley Square.

I had arrived at Inley Abbey that afternoon, and was sitting at dinner with Inley and his pretty wife, whom I had not seen for five years, since the day I was his best man, when we all heard faintly the tolling of a church bell. Lady Inley shook her shoulders in a rather exaggerated shudder.

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The great telescope of the Prophet was carefully adjusted upon its lofty, brass-bound stand in the bow window of Number One Thousand Berkeley Square. It pointed towards the remarkably bright stars which twinkled in the December sky over frosty London, those guardian stars which always seemed to the Prophet to watch with peculiar solicitude over the most respectable neighbourhood in which he resided. The polestar had its eye even now upon the mansion of an adjacent ex-premier, the belt of Orion was not oblivious of a belted earl's cosy red-brick home just opposite, and the house of a certain famous actor and actress close by had been taken by the Great Bear under its special protection.

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Robert Hichens was an English novelist, who wrote his first novel "The Coastguard's Secret" when he was seventeen. He is best known as a satirist of the "Naughty Nineties," the period of the 1890s in England.

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The petulant whining of the jackals prevented Renfrew from sleeping. At first he lay still on his camp bed, staring at the orifice of the bell tent, which was only partially covered by the canvas flap let down by Mohammed, after he had bidden his master good-night. Behind the tent the fettered mules stamped on the rough, dry ground, and now and then the heavy rustling of a wild boar could be heard, as it shuffled through the scrub towards the water that lay in the hollow beyond the camp. The wayward songs of the Moorish attendants had died into silence. They slept, huddled together and shrouded in their djelabes. But their wailing rapture of those old triumphant days when on the heights above Granada, beneath the eternal snows, their brethren walked as conquerors, had been succeeded by the cries of the uneasy beasts that throng the mountains between Tangier and Tetuan. And Renfrew said to himself that the jackals kept him from sleeping. He lay still and wondered if Claire were awake in her tent close by. If so, if her dark eyes were unclouded, what journeys must her imagination be making She was so sensitive to sound of any kind. A cry moved her sometimes with a swift violence that alarmed those around her. The message of a note of music shut one door on her soul, opened another, and let her in to strange regions in which she chose to be lonely.

Two years ago I was travelling by diligence in the Sahara Desert on the great caravan route, which starts from Beni-Mora and ends, they say, at Tombouctou. For fourteen hours each day we were on the road, and each evening about nine o'clock we stopped at a Bordj, or Travellers' House, ate a hasty meal, threw ourselves down on our gaudy Arab rugs, and slept heavily till the hour before dawn, drugged by fatigue, and by the strong air of the desert. In the late afternoon of the third day of our journeying we drove into a sandstorm.

" ...] "And through the doorway where the Tur-cos-I like the old name-crowded I saw the sand filtering in from the desert, and against the black leaves of a solitary palm-tree, with leaves like giant Fatma hands, I saw the silver disc of the moon. "'I vote we go, ' said Marnier's light tenor voice in my ear. 'The atmosphere's awful in here.' "'Very well, ' I said. "I got up; but just then a girl, dressed in midnight purple embroidered with silver, came in from the doorway, and began to dance alone. She was very young-fourteen, I found out afterwards-and, in contrast to the other women, extremely ...]."