The Poisoner

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158

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240 g

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III ON the following morning Martin woke early. Clear, warm sunshine was on the roofs and in the streets. He always slept with his windows open and his blinds undrawn. And, this morning, the noise of the traffic and the sight of the blue sky quickened his spirit. As he dressed, he reviewed the events of the previous evening, and began to conjecture what the critics would have to say about his work. He had enough experience to know that the verdict of the public was one thing and the verdict of the critics another, and he was much too serious an artist to regard the public's favour as a proof that his music had merit. Stavart cared little for fame. To be talked of and written about was, no doubt, amusing; it was nothing more than that. But he cared a great deal that his work should be good; that it should be recognised by the right people; that it should influence his contemporaries. He craved for a richer and fuller mode of living. It was not enough for him that ihis spirit should live in his own frame and be fed and nourished by his mind and emotions; something of him must live in other people also. By means of his music he could, he imagined, project his spirit throughout the world. His music, saturated with his own personality, must be made to add colour and grandeur to the best minds of Europe. He had a masterful desire to spend himself?to scatter and squander himself upon the world. . . . Before breakfasting he went to the nearest post office and dispatched a telegram to his friends at Barton. He could not bring himself to write more than a laconic message, in which he said that the conecrt "went off all rightor seemed to," and that he would be home for dinner. And then he bought a dozen different newspapers and carried them to his hotel. At the breakfa...

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