Villa Rubein, and Other Stories

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Galsworthy John. Villa Rubein, and Other Stories

PREFACE

VILLA RUBEIN

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A MAN OF DEVON

I “MOOR, 20th July

II “Tuesday

III “Friday, 29th July

IV “4th August

V “Saturday, 6th August

VI “Tuesday, 9th August

VII “KINGSWEAR, Saturday, 13th August

VIII “TORQUAY, 30th October

A KNIGHT

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SALVATION OF A FORSYTE

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THE SILENCE

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Writing not long ago to my oldest literary friend, I expressed in a moment of heedless sentiment the wish that we might have again one of our talks of long-past days, over the purposes and methods of our art. And my friend, wiser than I, as he has always been, replied with this doubting phrase “Could we recapture the zest of that old time?”

I would not like to believe that our faith in the value of imaginative art has diminished, that we think it less worth while to struggle for glimpses of truth and for the words which may pass them on to other eyes; or that we can no longer discern the star we tried to follow; but I do fear, with him, that half a lifetime of endeavour has dulled the exuberance which kept one up till morning discussing the ways and means of aesthetic achievement. We have discovered, perhaps with a certain finality, that by no talk can a writer add a cubit to his stature, or change the temperament which moulds and colours the vision of life he sets before the few who will pause to look at it. And so – the rest is silence, and what of work we may still do will be done in that dogged muteness which is the lot of advancing years.

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“You are a little cat!” said Christian; “it isn’t true, at all. He hates shams, and can’t bear meanness; and it is mean to cover up dislikes and pretend that you agree with people.”

“Papa says that he thinks too much about himself.”

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