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Lucile
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XII.
When the light Of the dawn grayly flicker’d and glared on the spent Wearied ends of the night, like a hope that is sent To the need of some grief when its need is the sorest, He was sullenly riding across the dark forest Toward Luchon. Thus riding, with eyes of defiance Set against the young day, as disclaiming alliance With aught that the day brings to man, he perceived Faintly, suddenly, fleetingly, through the damp-leaved Autumn branches that put forth gaunt arms on his way, The face of a man pale and wistful, and gray With the gray glare of morning. Eugene de Luvois, With the sense of a strange second sight, when he saw That phantom-like face, could at once recognize, By the sole instinct now left to guide him, the eyes Of his rival, though fleeting the vision and dim, With a stern sad inquiry fix’d keenly on him, And, to meet it, a lie leap’d at once to his own; A lie born of that lying darkness now grown Over all in his nature! He answer’d that gaze With a look which, if ever a man’s look conveys More intensely than words what a man means convey’d Beyond doubt in its smile an announcement which said, "I have triumph’d. The question your eyes would imply Comes too late, Alfred Vargrave!" And so he rode by, And rode on, and rode gayly, and rode out of sight, Leaving that look behind him to rankle and bite.
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Chicago:
Owen Meredith, "12," Lucile, ed. Sutherland, Alexander, 1853-1902 and trans. Seaton, R. C. in Lucile (New York: George E. Wood, ""Death-bed"" edition, 1892), Original Sources, accessed July 6, 2025, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=D13VSNGNV8MCZ52.
MLA:
Meredith, Owen. "12." Lucile, edited by Sutherland, Alexander, 1853-1902, and translated by Seaton, R. C., in Lucile, New York, George E. Wood, ""Death-bed"" edition, 1892, Original Sources. 6 Jul. 2025. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=D13VSNGNV8MCZ52.
Harvard:
Meredith, O, '12' in Lucile, ed. and trans. . cited in ""Death-bed"" edition, 1892, Lucile, George E. Wood, New York. Original Sources, retrieved 6 July 2025, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=D13VSNGNV8MCZ52.
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