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-dered! "I saw the serpent of my Lady's heart, Lovely and leprous; and a violet sigh Shook the wan, yellowing leaves of threnody, Bruised in the holy chalice of my Art." Fitzgerald. Ah yes! I didn't quite catch the meaning. Vane. Meaning? It is a piece of _mu_-sic, in which I have skilfully e-_lu_-ded ALL _meaning_. Fitzgerald. Oh, I see! (_Resumes his book._) Denham. (_to Vane_) Have a cigarette? (_Denham offers him a cigarette; he takes one absently, then lets it drop back into the box._) Vane. Thanks, no--I never smoke. It has become so vulgar. Denham. Really? What do you do then--_absinthe_? Vane. For the purposes of art it is antiquated. (_He sighs._) I have tried _haschish_. Denham. Well? Vane. Without distinct results--for one's style, that is. Denham. Oh! Vane. One sometimes sees oneself inventing the Narghile. It involves the black slave, of course, and might lead to a true retrogressive progress--even to the _Harim_. One pities the superfluous woman, there are so many about. Denham. Yet Mormonism seems to be a failure. Vane. It was so _dreadfully_ upholstered! Denham. The _Harim_ would be a new field for the collector. How prices would run up! Vane. Ah, Denham, never touch a dream with the vulgarity of real things! (_Crosses to picture._) (_Fitzgerald, who has been reading Gyp, suddenly comes forward with the book in his hand, and breaks in._) Fitzgerald. This Gyp's _awfully_ good. Who is he, eh? Vane. (_with patient scorn_) A woman! Fitzgerald. (_with conviction_) To be sure! That makes it--splendid! (_Chuckles to himself, sits again on sofa, and goes on reading._) Vane. (_looking at picture_) Will you never learn to be an _artist_, Denham? The modern picture should be a painted quatrain, with colours for words--words which say nothing, because everything has been said, but which _suggest_ all that has
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