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Of a Trifle Found in Twilight

Thus he walked in twilight, regretful that he must return to his own country, and live another life, and bear another name than that of Horvendile It was droll that in his own country folk should call him Felix, since Felix meant "happy"; and assuredly he was not pre-eminently happy there.

At least he had ended the love-business of Ettarre and Guiron happily, however droll the necessitated makeshifts might have been He had very certainly introduced the god in the car, against Horatian admonition, had wound up affairs with a sort of transformation scene It was, perhaps, at once too hackneyed and too odd an ending to be æsthetically satisfactory, after all Why, beyond doubt it was. He shrugged his impatience.

"Yet—what a true ending it would be!" he