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Zuleika Dobson; Or, An Oxford Love Story
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Sir Max Beerbohm
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Thus
I
felt
that
there
were
no
indelicacy,
this
time,
in
watching
him.
Just
as
“pluck”
comes
of
breeding,
so
is
endurance
especially
an
attribute
of
the
artist.
Because
he
can
stand
outside
himself,
and
(if
there
be
nothing
ignoble
in
them)
take
a
pleasure
in
his
own
sufferings,
the
artist
has
a
huge
advantage
over
you
and
me.
The
Duke,
so
soon
as
Zuleika’s
spell
was
broken,
had
become
himself
again--a
highly
self-conscious
artist
in
life.
And
now,
standing
pensive
on
the
doorstep,
he
was
almost
enviable
in
his
great
affliction.
Through
the
wreaths
of
smoke
which,
as
they
came
from
his
lips,
hung
in
the
sultry
air
as
they
would
have
hung
in
a
closed
room,
he
gazed
up
at
the
steadfast
thunder-clouds.
How
nobly
they
had
been
massed
for
him!
One
of
them,
a
particularly
large
and
dark
one,
might
with
advantage,
he
thought,
have
been
placed
a
little
further
to
the
left.
He
made
a
gesture
to
that
effect.
Instantly
the
cloud
rolled
into
position.
The
gods
were
painfully
anxious,
now,
to
humour
him
in
trifles.
His
behaviour
in
the
great
emergency
had
so
impressed
them
at
a
distance
that
they
rather
dreaded
meeting
him
anon
at
close
quarters.
They
rather
wished
they
had
not
uncaged,
last
night,
the
two
black
owls.
Too
late.
What
they
had
done
they
had
done.
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