The Strange Recollections of Martha Klemm: Sara was Judith by Julian Hawthorne
Author:Julian Hawthorne [Hawthorne, Julian]
Language: eng
Format: azw
Publisher: Cirsova Publishing
Published: 2022-03-03T00:00:00+00:00
CHAPTER XVI
IN THE STAGE-BOX
T
HE allusion to Topham reminds me to say that I had heard from another source that he was taking a vacation. He had joined a biological commission to seek the beginnings of the human race in Mesopotamia. The preadamite skulls and bones in Europe seeming to postulate a source farther east. Topham would not be in London this season, evidently.
My thoughts dwelt on Judith. Was she, after all, all that she seemed? I had, to be sure, had an enviable opportunity of determining the point. But had I allowed for the intoxicating influence of tone and mannerâof the spiritual shining through the physical and transfiguring it? Had I been affected by her own belief in herself? Had Sara been obliterated as completely as seemed to be the case? I might be more suggestible (as the jargon is) than I supposed.
âSoul is form,â as Spenser says, âand doth the body make.â And that might imply that the new spirit in Saraâs body might effect a corresponding change in its material habitation. Then, Judithâs own account of her predicament was plausible enough. But I was not wholly convinced. She was adorable, at any rate.
âGlamour!â I was not unfamiliar with the principle of the thing, and the radius of its power might be greater than I had imagined. Was there an illusive something playing over Judithâs face and form, behind which, could I penetrate it, the mournful lineaments of my old schoolmate was lurking? Was Sara âpossessedâ (in the Biblical sense) by some spectral thing able to lead mortals astray? A demon of mischief masquerading in the corpse of a suicide? I knew not what to think:
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