The Honeysuckle Author:Gabriele D'Annunzio Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: nize the living image of one of those Rhine Maidens that float through his music, Helissent. Woglinde ? Flosshilde ? IVAIN. All three. AUDE. And t... more »he Gold, too. Helissent. Good-bye, Aude, until later. In a new life. Ivain. You are going, Helissent? Stay a little longer. Do you not feel how harmonious this room is ? It is so pleasing to me. One hardly knows whether it has walls or branches, curtains or leaves. Helissent. Child, child! this is not the time to linger. Life is rushing onwards. Ivain. Come into the chapel, towards seven, Helissent. I will play the " vesperal" on the organ. But I should so much like to see you before then. Where are you going ? Helissent. I do not know. [His eyes follow her whilst she goes out with her swaying gait. His sister takes him by the hand. Aude. How you love her! Ivain. Ah, I can hardly tell whether my love gives me joy or pain ! Do you understand ? Why should that swing of her body on her supple limbs be able to hurt me so sometimes ? When I look at her I feel her beauty as a shadow over me ; yet it is a shadow that gives me no repose. It works on me and stimulatesme until I feel, if I do not want to lose it, I must complete it, and I do not know how to do it. Aude. You love her so much ? [She lets herself drop on the cushions, still holding the hand of her brother, who sits at her feet. She questions him with an ill-concealed anxiety. Tell me. Ivain. I love her, little sister; but I love you, too, very much. Aude. You could not live without her ? Tell me. Ivain. You are jealous. Aude. You could not imagine your life changing, becoming single again, steeped in music and melancholy ? IVAIN. But why ? AUDB. Suppose she were to go away, to leave ? Ivain....« less