A Fish Dinner in Memison

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James Francis Stephens. A Fish Dinner in Memison

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Dedication

INTRODUCTION. BY JAMES STEPHENS

A LETTER OF INTRODUCTION. TO GEORGE ROSTREVOR HAMILTON

PRINCIPAL PERSONS

I. APHRODITE IN VERONA

II. MEMISON: KING MEZENTIUS

III. A MATCH AND SOME LOOKERS ON

IV. LADY MARY SCARNSIDE

V. QUEEN OF HEARTS AND QUEEN OF SPADES

VI. CASTANETS BETWIXT THE WORLDS

VII. SEVEN AGAINST THE KING

VIII. LADY MARY LESSINGHAM

IX. NINFEA DI NEREZZA

X. THE LIEUTENANT OF REISMA

XI. NIGHT-PIECE: APPASSIONATO

XII. SALUTE TO MORNING

XIII. SHORT CIRCUIT

XIV. THE FISH DINNER: PRAELUDIUM

XV. THE FISH DINNER: SYMPOSIUM

XVI. THE FISH DINNER: CAVIAR

XVII. IN WHAT A SHADOW

XVIII. DEEP PIT OF DARKNESS

XIX. TEN YEARS: TEN MILLION YEARS: TEN MINUTES

NOTE

DRAMATIS PERSONAE

Also by E. R. Eddison

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To my son-in-law

Flying Officer KENNETH HESKETH HIGSON

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‘Serene highness, I am a man of law, and should meddle no further than my commission. Yet is it the platform and understanding of all law that the King, just cause arising, may lawfully act without the law? You are our great pilot, on whom all we cast our eyes and seek our safety. For security of your person, it were good this Vicar were made away. This then is my counsel: assure yourself well of your forces, and, that done, strike: and at unawares.’

The King laughed in his great black beard. ‘You have confirmed my very resolve, and so shall it be. But with two provisoes. First, I’ll not, like an unskilful boor, kill my good hawk ’cause she turns haggard: I’ll tame my Horius Parry, not end him.’

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