Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937 / 2008-07-31 00:00:00

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THE GREATER INCLINATION

by EDITH WHARTON


TABLE OF CONTENTS

THE GREATER INCLINATION

I
_The Muse's Tragedy_.
II
_A Journey_.
III
_The Pelican_.
IV
_Souls Belated_.
V
_A Coward_.
VI
_The Twilight of the God_.
VII
_A Cup of Cold Water_.
VIII
_The Portrait_.



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THE MUSE'S TRAGEDY

Danyers afterwards liked to fancy that he had recognized Mrs. Anerton at
once; but that, of course, was absurd, since he had seen no portrait of
her--she affected a strict anonymity, refusing even her photograph to the
most privileged--and from Mrs. Memorall, whom he revered and cultivated
as her friend, he had extracted but the one impressionist phrase: "Oh,
well, she's like one of those old prints where the lines have the value of
color."
He was almost certain, at all events, that he had been thinking of Mrs.
Anerton as he sat over his breakfast in the empty hotel restaurant, and
that, looking up on the approach of the lady who seated herself at the
table near the window, he had said to himself, "_That might be she_."
Ever since his Harvard days--he was still young enough to think of them as
immensely remote--Danyers had dreamed of Mrs. Anerton, the Silvia of
Vincent Rendle's immortal sonnet-cycle, the Mrs.
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