nisered coat.
urned to its usual urned to scerprises fell to pieces. ts coffers and its books on a sensible loss, t o desuetude.
ried to build a break-er of order and elegance against tide of life o dam up, by rules of conduct and active interest and neions, tides as from ers ides began once more to jostle fiercely above the crumbled mole.
oo ile isolation. gone one step nearer t to approacless s er. t stood to tical kinserage, fostercerbrother.
urned to appease t before al sin, t o be a tissue of subterfuge and falseo realize ties s in o defile ience racted orted images of ter o came toransfigured by a lec iss dim memory of dark orgiastic riot, its keen and ing sense of transgression.
urned to umnal evenings led reet to street as t avenues of Blackrock. But no vision of trim front gardens or of kindly ligender influence upon times, in t ing o a softer languor, traversed te led to tains and ure of refusal anding garden after years of estrangement and adventure. At ts t speecte rose to . A tender premonition toucryst o and, in spite of ty y and inexperience o fall from him.
Sucs passed and ting fires of lust sprang up again. ticulate cries and tal s peering into tening eagerly for any sound. o . ed to sin o force anoto sin o exult some dark presence moving irresistibly upon le and murmurous as a flood filling self. Its murmur besieged itude in sleep; its subtle streams penetrated eet togets penetration. retc reet to t eluded ed rangled for so long in issued from broke from reaty, a cry for an iniquitous abandonment, a cry he oozing wall of a urinal.
o a maze of narroy streets. From ts of and rayed into ter of traversed treet from o rembling seized roubled vision against tar. Before ted e. uries.
ood still in t clamouring against umult. A young ain o his face. She said gaily:
-- Good night, illie dear!
some. A in tried to bid ongue speak t seem at ease, cing ts of her perfumed