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SERAPHITA
AND
OTHER
STORIES
(«)
studious,
if
irregularly
stu-
dious,
schoolboy.
Jt
is,
indeed,
yer^
much
of
the
kind
to
hand,
it
added
Biographique
sur
indebtedness
to
Hoflt-
Revue
de
Paris,
October
1830.
Puus,
Auguit
2S,
1886.
a)
differently
riven,
and
their
contorted
precipices
defy
the
terms
of
geometry:
here
the
crest
is
'toothed
like
a
saw;
there
its
sides
con-
the
Jarvis
hills
is
the
village,
consisting
of
heat
of
the
sun,
showing
true
Norwegian
ingenuity
in
the sea
from
Sweden
thirty
years
before
this
story
opens
and
Jarvis,
trying
to
improve
under
the
snow
the
narrow
carefully
closed,
with
a
store
of
biscuit,
run
butter,
dried
fish,
and
pro-
of
head,
tossing
back
deep.
breath
of
angels.
Minna
her
at
a
glance,
so
much
was
she
struck
the
only
expression
that
can
do
justice
to
the
eeger-
physical
habit.
Minna's
imagination
seconded
this
constant
hallucination;
it
would
have
affected
any
beholder,
for
it
gave
to
Seraphitus
the
appearance
of
one
of
the
beings
we
see
in
our
happiest
dreams.
No
familiar
type
can
give
any
idea
of
this
face,
to
And
how?
Tell
me.
I
do
of
scorn.
The
transient
joys
of
earthly
love
other
more
perfect
hap-
piness,
as
the
earth,
a
mere
fragment
of
the
universe,
testifies
broken voice.
foot of the oak

lay
before
them,
Seraphitus
seized
Minna,
and
with
a
swift
evening
after
to-morrow?
With
pleasure,
dear/'
by
her.
Wilfrid
sat
down,
folded
his
arms,
and
looked
gloomily
at
Seraphita.
We
are
always
to
reclined
under
his
eyes,
softly
pillowed,
match it?
different tone.
Do
you
see
those
who
antique
statue
of
Polyhymnia.
Then
she
extended
her
hand
and
Wilfrid
rose.
like
the
of
fact
appear
as
abstractions
and
the
most
stupendous
works
place
without
the
ebullition,
the
crepitation
and
convulsions,
the
midst
of
the
fairy
splendors
that
tempted
him
to
the
East
int©
butter,
after
the
fashion
of
the
country.
thunder I
the
synthetical
Word,
beings
who
can
combine
with
other
a
.secret
of
which
I
lucinations
that
dwells
in
that
young
thing,
to
you
so
gentle
and
frail,
to
me
the
most
ruthless
magician.
Yes
her
right
hand
an
invisible
in-
days
been
wandering
round
this
abyss
of
with
greater
ardor,
like
a
scien-
tific
inquirer
seeking
for
Nature's
secrets
and
for
ever
baffled;
Do
you
know
anything
of
Swedenborg?
in
space.
works
is
enough
to
carry
coaviction
on
this
point,
his
'You
will
not
need
a
very
large
quantity,'
said
he.
'In
him,
by
it
marvelous
results,
was
no
more
than
he
stopped
after
a
few
words,
and
fell
into
a
reverie
language
of
the
eye;
those
of
Saturp
are
persistently
tpwwted
by
evil
spirits
j
those
of
table-drawer,
found
a
newspaper,
and
handed
it
to
Wilfrid,
who
read
alou^
the
follQwing
letter;
's character.
even
remarkable
for
a
sort
of
repugnance
to
proselytizing;
he
spoke
freely
to
very
few
persons,
and
never
communicated
those
gifts
but
writ-
ings.
true,
few
men
are
capable
of
enduring
this
flaming
language.
forth
the
greatest
marvels
in
perfect
good
faith.
Grod
hath
put
me.
body
and
their
inner
man
by
somnambulism.
In
that
state,
Swe-
denborg
tells
us
in
his
Treatise
on
Angelic
Wisdom,
man
may
be
raised
to
celestial
light,
because,
the
physical
senses
told
you
eartbly
things
and
ye
believe
not,
how
shall
ye
be-
lieve
if
I
tell
you
of
heavenly
things?'
(John
iii.
12.)
gold.
Though
the
statement,
'There
the
birth
of
Seraphita..
of
the
qualities
succeesively
has thrown off
heaven.
garment'
(Isaiah
li.
6).
This
mysterious
tie
between
the
smallest
atoms
of
explains
the
correspond-
heaven,'
says
Swedenborg
(Arcana
Celesiia),
later
time,
such
as
this,
'pregnant,'
says
Swedenborg,
'with
many
human
which,
to
the
ignorant,
seem
grotesque.
When
a
man
is
prepared
Swedenborg
himself
saw
them.
is the
enjoy
it
or
angel
from
the
East,
clothed
in
purple,
and
the
sun^
and
His
raiment
was
as
white
as
of
the
Lamb'
(Eev.
vi.
16).
plunges
into
it,
he
is
carried
away
by
an
overwhelming
flood.
Dante
AU-
the
daughter
of
solemnize
his
heavenly
nuptials
in
the
and beautiful t»

child will
realization
of
the
smile
when
I
repeated
them
to
him.
ie
hardly
possible
to
discern
her
features.
the
Swedish
castle,
and
always
blue
over
Seraphita's
head
if
she
a
Spirit
of
Wisdom?
they
were
wrapped.
Midnight
Btruck.
Suddenly
the
outer
door
was
violently
follow.
Do
you
hear
that
cracking?
said
Wilfrid.
six-and-thirty.
Though
neck
was
short.
present
time.
blighting
breath
marvelous
is
the
most beholders
conflict
with
passion,
have
proved
themselves
the
stronger,
and
so
have
nothing
left
to
clutch
in
their
talons;
spirits
which,
the
opportunity
failing
them
lor
putting
them'
what it
of
a
passion
nnder
which
he
was
plunging,
like
thei
of the
exile
from
the
upper
spheres
on
her
homeward
road.
He
did
not
offer
this
Norwegian
lily
the
homage
of
such
ideal-
ization
as
lovers
of
every
land
are
apt
to
gquander;
he
really,
jbelJeved
ia
her
divinity.
.
dinary spectacle
wind,
or
the
stupid
glare
oi
uj-
from the
y?s/'
repliecl
Dayi^,
waking
as
if
ivqm
a
4ream.
perfect
East
passed
asked
Wilfrid.
A
dream
as
real
as
that
you
are
alive,
replied
David.
I
was
there.
The
old
servant's
calm
conviction
struck
Wilfrid,
who
vent
away,
wondering
whether
these
visions
were
at
all
less
*'Nq
one
hag
dwelt
under
her
roof?'*
doubt
that
hears
him
tell
of
them?
of
man
can
bring
into
the
spiritual
world.
On
the
seats
of
that
amphitheatre
the
pastor
beheld
arrayed
the
dark
legions
of
doubt,
his
gloomy
ideas,
his
vicious
place
in
the
north
of
the
pleasures
of
wine-drinking,
reserved
for
southern
lands.
The
and
bridled;
I
know
not
the
power
of
reading
through
your
brows
the
wish
that
has
brought
you
desert,
thinking
man,
as
he
is,
afford
undeniable
proofs
of
both?
Is
he
not
an
within
the
domain
of
matter.
On
this
I
give
no
opinion
Let
us,
I
say,
by
man.
words
and
ideas.
Religions
may
accumulate
to
scepticism.
The
problem
being
thus
stated,
what
signifies
Spirit
or
six
days'
labor
attributed
to
Him?
Eoman
citizen.
And,
in
fact,
the
difficulty
is
just
of
that
Supreme
Intelligence
as
matter
be,
what
becomes
of
must be
this
second
thesis.
If
God
pre-existed
alone,
the
universe
proceeded
from
This
hypothesis
seemed
so
impious
starting-point
?
the
physical
world
seems
inexplicable,
no
stability;
nothing
moves
on,
and
nothing
stands
God,
or
God

that
to
comprehend
God
altogether
is
to
be
God.
I
will
not
tell
why
man
cannot
comprehend
all
he
know
more
about
himself
could ever
infinite
numbers
you
call
whole
numbers?
Men
alone
on
earth
comprehend
number,
that
bers
ought
to
be
absolute,
like
everything
that
is
intrinsically
dissimilarity
in
your
ideas
which
are
derived
from
the
objects
of
the
visible
world,
only
3aprice.
Two
and
two
only
make
four
in
the
sense
of
a
false
md
monstrous
abstraction.
species
of
the
vegetable
kingdom,
a
straight
of
the
infinite.
of
thick-
ness;
lines
are
the
edges
of
solids
having
a
power
light.
are
your
most
precious
convictions.
into
coiifusiop,
Thus
his
laws
were
not
finals
seeking
the
branch
from
which
by
a
star^
or
crash
into
it
by
their
shock,
or
dissolve
it
by
the
in
the
progress
of
worlds
by
the
intersection
of
some
mathematical
line,
whose
curves
are
apparent
to
shroud
of
sand;
fo?
cm
^Q^
must
seek
some
other
way
of
knowing
Him
politig^
qt
dis-
tance
glorifies,
and
which
reach
the
ear
in
waves
that
seem
to
bring
refreshment
and
light.
Cease,
Wilfrid,
said
she,
cease
to
one
you
love
? Submit
to
me,
and
I
will
lead
you
into
a
path
where
you
will
attain
to
all
the
greatness
you
dream
of,
and
where
love
will
be
really
infinite.
?
Q^taclysm.
hardly
an
idea.
By
the
time
these
two
philosophers
had
swallowed
their
fifth
cup
of
tea,
that
mystical
evening
seemed
quite
natural.
prowled
round
the
house,
awaiting
Minna's
return.
on
her
couch,
so
graceful,
fragile,
and
suffering,
is
not
mistake.
cathedral.
From
flord,
spectators.
Beyond
it
all,
the
open
sea
closed
in
this
picture,
traced
by
the
greatest
of
poets
no
woman
you
ever
knew
could
create
for
herself
so
magnificent
a
retreat.
Here
I
experience
a
feeling
that
the
sight
of
great
cities
rarely
the
eider,
aggrieved
This
is
my
secret,**
these
frozen
lands.
I
am
tempted
to
cross
the
Russian
steppes,
to
reach
the
frontiers
of
Asia,
No,
nothing
shall
arrest
the
flash
of
my
abyss
beneath.
I
gathered
them
for
you,
said
Minna,
giving
the
nose-
loving
you
I
their
hands
for
help
after
spending
their
life
in
thankless
toil?
Peace
and
courage
to
them
all,
and
too
late
I
the
flesh,
shone
through
the
veil,
bleaching
it,
as
it
were,
from
day
to
day.
The
progress
made
by
the
spirit
in
undermining
the
last
barrier
which
divided
no
longer
her
own,
but
His
If
she
keeps
anything
within
her
that
makes
mantle,
Angel
I
heaven
is
thine
inheritance
I'*
and
perseverance.
wandering,
passion
to
evil
ways,
alone
remembers
them,
since
matter
has
treasure
over
which
men
has a
as cau
when
prayer
is
the
outcome
of
so
many
trials,
it
is
the
consummation
of
all
truth,
of
all
power,
of
all
emotion.
The
offspring
of
the
and
duration
are
proportions
proper
to
matter;
and
spirit
and
matter
have
nothing
in
common.
destinies,
his
presence,
more
eloquent
in
his
silence
some
glorious
martyrdom
to
Seraphitus
had
turned
to
the
dawn,
and
they
were
inspired
by
his
ecstasy.
light,
and
to
it
darkly,
apprehending
it
according
to
their
weakness.
by
a
mad
whirl-
wind.
It
was
all
in
a
moment.
The
veils
were
rent;
they
and
the
True
Life.
They
saw
the
nakedness
unknown
power
that
laid
a
hand
on
the
carried
them
away,
and
gave
them
oblivion
of
earthly
meanings,
and
the
power
of
understanding
They
heard
the
various
parts
of
the
infinite
forming
a
living
melody;
mysterious
words
of
the
bein^
who
on
earth
had
appeared
to
them
under
seraph's
first
desire
had
placed
of
afiliction,
pearl
without
and
an-
swered
him.
the
depths
of
the
said
she.
The
clouds
fell,
forming
a
dark
canopy.
Suddenly
the
lovers
found
themselves
kneeling
by
a
dead
body,
which
old
1835.
from
Blois.
This
by
phenomena
of
life.
a
savage.
Indeed,
its
hieroglyphic
presentment,
from
hieroglyphics
to
the
alphabet,
from
the
alphabet
to
written
language,
of
which
the
eloquent
beauty
resides
in
a
series
of
images,
classified
by
rhetoric,
and
forming,
in
a
sense,
the
hiero-
glyphics
of
thought?
Was
it
not
the
ancient
mode
of
abstract
treasure
had
been
derived
from
the
plunder
committed
during
the
Kevolution
in
the
neighboring
chateaux
and
abbeys.
As
a
priest
who
had
taken
the
oath,
the
worthy
was
enough
to
from
reading,
and
those
which
had
occurred
of
meditation
or
conversation.
Indeed,
he
had
every
form
of
memory
imagination,
stimulated
by
the
;
Swedenborg
was
known.
Madame
de
Stael,
greatly
surprised,
took
the
book
but
little
about
for
this
gentleman's
neglect
of
the
Baroness'
a
nothing
at
all
comparable
in
any
that
I
have
visited
since
I
left
that
establishment.
order,
the
inspection
arrival
of
of
philosophy,
rhetoric,
the
higher
mathematics,
and
chem-
istry.
Each
of
these
divisions
had
its
own
building,
class-
sweetmeats purchased
of
their
parents,
found
themselves
penniless?
tell us all
de
Stael,
a
coming
genius,
said
Father
Haugoult,
was
to
be
one
of
us
a
wizard,
a
youth
capable
of
writing
a
composition
or
a
translation
while
we
were
being
called
in
to
lessons,
and
same
classroom,
on
the
same
I
ought
me.
I
was
always
rhyming,
in
spite
of
good
advice
from
Monsieur
Mareschal,
the
head-
:
college.
exquisitely
chis-
suddenly
van-
violent
exercise
in
vogue
among
his
fellows,
quite
ordinary
scholar.
I
alone
was
allowed
really
to
know
after
coming
to
Ven-
d6me,
Louis
care
of
an
ft-ilft-mfyit^ti
than
genius
it
ilu;
heart
of
a
child?
The
similarity
of
our
i>iir-'v
haiihazard educst.
of a
care
of
an
and
:
finished,
boys
a
defect
in
his
gait,
or
by
fidgeting
dur-
was
a
flngers
wide,
applied
to
our
poor
little
hands
with
all
the
strength
and
all
the
fury
of
the
administrator.
To
endure
this
classical
fon^
weak,
trans-
as
gold
is
comer
of
the
room
equal
talent,
''Why
is
green
a
color
so
largely
diffused
throughout
crea-
notions^
a
look
would
of
his
own
powers
which
bore
him
up
through
his
spiritual
cogitations.
How
de-
lightful
it
In
his
least
logical
arguments
there
were
still
amazing
observations
as
to
the
powers
of
man,
which
gav^
his
words
that
color
of
truth
to
him
his
twofold
existence,
he
must
of
genius
and
other
beings
as
there
those
who
dwell
therein.
Dante,
in
his
Divine
Comedy,
had
perhaps
some
slight
in-
tuition
of
those
spheres
which
begin
in
the
world
of
torment,
and
rise,
circle
on
circle,
to
the
highest
heaven.
Thus
Sweden-
borg's
doctrine
is
the
product
of
a
lucid
spirit
noting
down
the
innumerable
signs
by
which
the
angels
I^othing
mathematical
master,
foregone
conclusion
that
we
were
both
of
us
idiots,
the
master
always
went
through
Lambert
simply
repeated,
looking
at
me
with
inexpressible
affection,
Vir
nohilis
its
distance;
the
smaller
boys
were
very
seldom
in
his
body?
Well,
then,
if
my
spirit
and
my
body
have
hitherto
given
so
little
thought
not
the
marvelous,
a
passion
begotten
mental
powers
we
must
call
them
till
papers.
work
of
fiction,
and
gave
the
name
of
a
woman
who
was
dear
to
him
to
a
girl
charac-
them
with
my
own.
the
those
beings
created
to
represent
womanhood
in
all
the
perfection
of
her
attributes,
but
relegated
by
a
fifteen
and
all
its
mechanism
would
not
correspond
with
the
tran-
imperfection
Eeaction,
A
desire,
he
said,
is
a
fact
completely
accomplished
in
our
will
before
it
is
accomplished
externally.
Hence
which
appear
the
strangest,
and
a
actively
and
argumenta-
many
martyrs
high
degree
of
ecstasy,
or
a
great
perfection
of
vision.
I
know
marvelous
gifts
which
the
Church
of
Eome,
jealous
of
all
mysteries,
pun-
was
over
pro-
jected
by
Gall
and
Lavater;
they
were
its
natural
corollary;
contemplation
of
things
outside
us.
nothing
is
impossible
in
the
marvelous
modifica-
tions
of
human
tissue.
sought
for
proofs
of
his
theories
in
and
for
a
phenomenon
hitherto
nameless,
to it.
fame than
the fact
of the human
too
long;
but
was
it
not
in
trying
to
make
gold
that
the
alchemists
uncoD-
attempts.
Still,
incomplete
as
his
work
may
have
been,
was
of
conviction
that
gives
inn,
become
of
me?
said
I.
Is
not
my
posi-
a sketch
rigidly
calm
dur-
ing
the
services.
His
own
prayers
went
up
in
such
poetic
heights
as
when,
hie
own.
to
system
of
government—
for
the
Books
of
Moses
are
a
r^^
enjoyed
by
a
community
settled
the
last
hours
of
my
life
at
Yendome,
Louis
had
ceased
to
feel
the
spur
to
ideas,
he
craved
to
satisfy
the
thirst
of
his
brain,
to
assimilate
every
idea.
Jlence
his
reading
and
from
his
reading,
the
reflections
that
he
yearned
for
yet
other
intellectual
creations.
Quelled
by
the
course
of
his
own
disewe.
Theatre-Frangais,
seated
on
a
bench
in
the
upper
gallery,
near
to
one
of
the
pillars
which,
in
those
days,
divided
off
the
third
TQw
of
boxes,
On
rising
between
the
acts,
he
saw
which
satiety
of
The incident
and the
and
patient
study
of
Society
here
has
brought
me
to
melancholy
conclusions,
in
-which
doubt
Dredominates.
power
of
my
thoughts.
To
make
a
fortune,
I
must
take
up
a
profession
sage
possessed
of
both
heaven
and
earth.
A
man
need
only
never
stoop,
to
remain
lofty
in
poverty.
He
who
practical
result.
Fruitless
attempts
are
mocked
at,
though
they
may
lead
to
the
greatest
discoveries;
the
deep
and
untiring
study
but
the
lack
of
unity
in
scientific
work
almost
nullifies
their
antago-
those
of
the
ancients
;
lasted.
Governments
pass
away,
as
men
do,
without
handing
down
fixity;
it
is
the
spirit
of
the
hour,
the
perpetual
application
of
without
us;
to
rise
above
grapes
in
front
of
my
window
with
a
young
doctor
named
Meyraux.
We
compromise
was
made
by
the
invention
of
the
Soul;
dogmas
has
had
it
forced
upon
?
of creation
tially
material
those
of
Europe,
is
even
more
startling
in
the
world
of
Mind.
Indian
bird.
I
should
need
day,
and
then
in
my
coffin.
of
reasoning,
that
may
be
termed
mathe-
matical.
Any
man
who
plunges
into
those
religious
waters,
of
aspects
of
his
my
eyes
girl's
guardian.
The
old
Jew
was
so
devoted
to
his
ward
that
he
seemed
willing
all,
but
which
in
him
was
raised
to
incalculable
power
by
the
perennial
ardor
grief
that
characterizes
the
aged,
I
indites his
have
been
very
feeling
that
is
wholly
respectful,
and
that
is
too
deeply
graven
on
my
the
terrors
my
be
false,
telling
me
that
here
was
happiness;
but
perceiving
all
the
blessing
of
sunshine,
and
deep
dejection.
Five
years
of
study
in
enough
leap
the
deepest
abyss.
lightest
veil
by
showing
me
its
skeleton,
and
reveals
the
mechanism
of
things
while
hiding
the
beautiful
results.
misery
of
knowing
that
you
were
unhappy
through
me.
But,
perhaps,
the
demon
should
wave
his
pinions
over
my
head
in
these
moments
of
exhaustion,
it
a
crime.
Tell
me
the
truth,
do
not
put
me
ofT
the
moon,
our
only
confidante.
wholly
her
own,
you
will
always
reign
supreme
words
worthy
of
you,
as
they
are
of
God.
He
is
nnnc
e^
temper,
as
»iy
love
is,
that
of
your
eyes
is,
of
express
to
you
the
exquisite
union
by
which
my
life
is
merged
into
yours
whenever
I
think
of
you.
The
motionless
leaves
did
not
quiver
in
the
beautiful
sunset
hues
which
are
both
light
and
shadow.
You
felt
that
m
w?
Tim
are
by
stealth,
at
rare
intervals
I
Ov,y
^;;,i*«
m'-
Qur
\iU
m
w?
RQW
nre
W
itcuHh,
at
rare
iutervnU
1
Ovr
tht
'To-morrow,
then,
our
love
is
to
be
made
known
Oh,
impossible
the
richest
singularities
which
constitute
the
various
degrees
of
eccentricity.
In
the
country
an
eccentric
mm
is
at
once
^et
down
as
half
mad.
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