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Collected Twilight Stories - World Cultural Heritage Library
Author: Marjorie Bowen

CONTENTS: — SCOURED SILK — THE BREAKDOWN — ONE REMAINED BEHIND ? A ROMANCE A LA MODE GOTHIQUE THE HOUSE BY THE POPPY FIELD — HALF-PAST TWO — ELSIE?S LONELY AFTERNOON — THE EXTRAORDINARY ADVENTURE OF MR JOHN PROUDIE ANN MELLOR?S LOVER — Excerpt: — SCOURED SILK — This is a tale that might be told in many ways and from various points of view; it has to be g... more »athered from here and there--a letter, a report, a diary, a casual reference; in its day the thing was more than a passing wonder, and it left a mark of abiding horror on the neighborhood.

The house in which Mr. Orford lived has finally been destroyed, the mural tablet in St. Paul?s, Covent Garden, may be sought for in vain by the curious, but little remains of the old piazza where the quiet scholar passed on his daily walks, the very records of what was once so real have become blurred, almost incoherent in their pleadings with things forgotten; but this thing happened to real people, in a real London, not so long ago that the generation had not spoken with those who remembered some of the actors in this terrible drama.

It is round the person of Humphrey Orford that this tale turns, as, at the time, all the mystery and horror centered; yet until his personality was brought thus tragically into fame, he had not been an object of much interest to many; he had, perhaps, a mild reputation for eccentricity, but this was founded merely on the fact that he refused to partake of the amusements of his neighbors, and showed a dislike for much company.

But this was excused on the ground of his scholarly predilections; he was known to be translating, in a leisurely fashion, as became a gentleman, Ariosto?s great romance into English couplets, and to be writing essays on recondite subjects connected with grammar and language, which were not the less esteemed because they had never been published.

His most authentic portrait, taken in 1733 and intended for a frontispiece for the Ariosto when this should come to print, shows a slender man with reddish hair, rather severely clubbed, a brown coat, and a muslin cravat; he looks straight out of the picture, and the face is long, finely shaped, and refined, with eyebrows rather heavier than one would expect from such delicacy of feature.

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(The Original) The Last Bouquet Some Twilight Tales

ISBN-13: 9781438788012
ISBN-10: 1438788010
Publication Date: 9/9/2009
Pages: 150
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Publisher: Intl Business Pubns USA
Book Type: Paperback
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