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The Tragic Comedians

CHAPTER IV
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No raisin-juice for us! None of their too-long-on-the-stem clusters! We are for the blood of the grape in her youth, her heaven-kissing ardour.

I have a cellar charged with the bravest of the Rhine.

We--will we not assail it, bleed it in the gallant days to come?
we two!' The picture of his bride and him drinking the sun down after a day of savage toil was in the shout--a burst unnoticed in the incessantly verbalizing buzz of a continental supper-table.

Clotilde acquiesced: she chimed to it like a fair boonfellow of the rollicking faun.

She was realizing fairyland.
They retired to the divan-corner where it was you-and-I between them as with rivulets meeting and branching, running parallel, uniting and branching again, divided by the theme, but unending in the flow of the harmony.


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