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and what the Hopes are, and where the Spot the two lie, in that Rot you call
your Lives. Time goes with the Beast also, the Centuries fold him down, the Cry
of his Young comes upward about him, the sigh of his Elders is as high as his
Horns, yet above his Horns is also a Voice crying "Too hoo! I would," she added,
"that the Mind's Eye had not been so bent upon the Heart."
"It's a good Place," said Dame Musset in a Tone advertising her a Person well
pleased a long time.
" A good place indeed," returned Masie Tuck-and-Frill, "but a better when seen
Indirectly."
"I", said Lady Buck-and-BalkЧfor Spirits had made her a little Callous to
Nuance, "would that we could do away with Man altogether!"
"It cannot be," sighed Tilly Tweed-in-Blood, "we need them for carrying of
Coals, lifting of Beams, and things of one kind or another."
"Ah the dears!" said Patience Scalpel, that moment bounding in upon them,
divesting herself of her furs, "and is there one hereabouts?"
"Most certainly not!" cried Lady Buck-and-Balk in one Breath with Tilly
Tweed-in-Blood, as if a large Mouse had run over their Shins, "What a thing to
say!"
"Oh Fie, and why not!" said Patience sipping a cognac. "Were it not for them,
you would not be half so pleased with things as they are. Delight is always a
little running of the Blood in Channels astray!"
"When I wish to contemplate the highest Pitch to which Irony has climbed, and
when I really desire to wallow in impersonal Tragedy", said Dame Musset, "I
think of that day, forty years ago, when I, a Child of ten, was deflowered by
the Hand of a Surgeon! I, even I, came to it as other Women, and I never a Woman
before nor since!"
"Oh my Darling!" wailed Tilly, in an Anguish on the second. My poor, dear
betrayed mishandled Soul! To think of it! Why I don't know whom to strike first!
But someone shall suffer for it I tell you. These Eyes shall know no Sleep until
you are revenged!"
"Peace!" said Dame Musset, putting a Hand upon her Wrist, "I am my Revenge!"
"I had not thought of that," said Tilly happily, "You have, verily, hanged, cut
down, and re-hung Judas a thousand times!"
"And shall again, please God!" said Dame Musset.
"That Man's Hand," said Patience Scalpel, "must drip more Agony and Regret than
the Hand of Lady Macbeth, and must burn hotter than a Serpent's Tongue!"
"He mutters in his Sleep," said Tuck-and-Frill," and turns from Side to Side,
and finds no Comfort!"
"He be one Man,"said
Dame Musset peacefully,
"who does not
brag."
ZODIAC
THIS is the part about Heaven that has never been told. After the Fall of Satan
(and as he fell, Lucifer uttered a loud Cry, heard from one End of
Forever-and-no-end to the other), all the Angels, Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer,
Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricornus, Aquarius, Pisces, all, all
gathered together, so close that they were not recognizable, one from the other.
And not nine Months later, there was heard under the Dome of Heaven a great
Crowing, and from the Midst, an Egg, as incredible as a thing forgotten, fell to