The Tour
By the same author
- Old People and the Things that Pass
- Small Souls
- The Later Life
- The Twilight of theSouls
- Dr. Adriaan
In Preparation
The Inevitable.
62 St. Martin’s Lane London W.C.2
First published November, 1920
Copyright, U.S.A., 1920.
by Dodd, Mead and Company, Inc.
Translator’s Note
I am greatly indebted to my friend John Sargeaunt fora number of extremely useful comments and suggestions and to my friendStephen McKenna for his version of the Hymn to Aphrodite inChapter VII. and for assistance in the translationgenerally.
A. T. de M.
Crowborough, 10 July,1920. [1]
The Tour
Chapter I
The night that hung over the sea was windless andblissfully silver-pure after the glowing splendour of the day; and thegreat quadrireme glided evenly and softly, as though upon a lake, undera wide firmament of stars. The thin horizon was purely outlined aroundthe oval sea; and on this wide world there was nothing but the starsand the ship.
But the ship resounded with music. There was the constantly