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...knob alarmed two people who were getting dressed in the shelter of the door to which the knob was affixed. Could it have been Walter? Kitty did not think so. Her companion, an athletic adulterer of 40, left her. Kitty sat down to wait for Bacteriologist Walter Fane who, at this point, had been a cuckold for about a year...
...been Fane, after all, who turned the knob. Kitty asked him to divorce her. She would marry Charlie Townsend, she said, who loved her and would be the next Colonial Governor. At this Fane laughed unpleasantly. He made an offer: if she would bring him written assurance from Townsend that he would marry her, written assurance from Mrs. Townsend that she would divorce Charles, he would do as she asked. Otherwise he would require her to accompany him to Mei-tan-fu, a cholera-stricken town of which he was taking charge...
Throughout the play, an enlarged and presumably expensive orchestra thunders away at Erik Fane's great music. The action aims to tell the story of his life, on which he based his symphony. First he flees Rome with a mistress because his father demands his return to Wall Street. Failing to write his music in Paris, he slides down the scale and is 'next discovered in a Port Said brothel. Ably assisted by quantities of dope, he murders a cockney sailor man. His last lap is in the Marquesas where he comes down with leprosy. In the brief...
...book forms a delightful link with society of the past. The letters of Julian Fane to his sister (Lady Rose) are of great interest and value, especially those written from Russia. The correspondence which passed between H.R.H. the Grand Duchess of Baden and Lady Rose, even during the late War, shows a simple, sincere and human friendliness, which does not fail to awaken a vivid sympathy. The book also gives some idea, superficial it is true, of the German view...
About the Coronation of Alexander II of Russia. (A letter from Julian Fane, on the staff of the British Embassy, to Lady Rose.) "The Emperor and Empress both went through their parts admirably . . . On entering the Church, both fall on their knees and touch the floor with their foreheads, and afterwards move about to different quarters of the Church to bow before the images and kiss the holy relics?a maneuvre which they both executed with great grace. The ceremony of the Coronation itself is very pretty, the Emperor first putting the crown (which is enormous, and I should think...