Shall I make a neat hole at the
proper point in my skull; or, better yet, put half a grain of a drug
that will occur to you on my tongue and close my mouth on further
indiscretions? That has its aspects. But not so strongly after one of
Juan's drinks; they are distilled illusions, vain dreams still of hope.
They have all the brave ring of accomplishment without its effort. But
I can see the end even of them--atrophy. Soon Cytherea will go into the
attic, have her nose broken, and the rats will eat the clothes from her
indifferent body. Cytherea on a pearl shell in the Ionic Sea... I was
one of her train, Daniel." He leaned sharply forward--
Daniel Randon was asleep.
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