The Island of Tranquil Delights, a South Sea Idyl, And Others
The Island of Tranquil Delights, a South Sea Idyl, And Others
Stoddard Charles Warren
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He regretted nothing in the past, looked forward to nothing in the future, formed no attachments; lived only in his art, and was vain of that. He was selfish, cynical, vulgar, but he had the physical beauty of one of Titian's cloud-children and the face of an angel that lived close to death. Mr. Crook entered presently to summon Young Romeo ; the Flying-Men were about to sport in mid-air like veritable winged crea- tures. I was invited to witness the spectacle from a seat my friend had reserved... for me in the amphitheatre. Don't imagine that any accident befell any one; everything went off magically, and a slip seemed out of the range of possibility. The two gymnasts, the **Zin- garelli Brothers,'' whose names were in reality Bill Jones and Sam Hawkins, climbed into the trapeze that swung high up in the peak of the tent, and there they arched their insteps in 237 THE ISLAND OP TRANQUIL DEUGHTS spasmodic ecstasy and rubbed their feet to- gether as flies do^ and, as if it were the most delightful situation in the world, all the while playing with their handkerchiefs in a very becoming and unconscious manner.
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