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While Chloris sleeps, Jurgen overlooks the city
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From Chapter 27 - "Vexatious Estate of Queen Helen"
Jurgen takes up with Chloris the Hamadryad in the land of Pseudopolis. He tells her he's the King of Eubonia. They banter about his large staff. Eventually, they will marry, though Jurgen still longs for Helen, whose face he sees in Dorothy la Desirée from his youth.
So they talked nonsense, in utter darkness, while the locusts, and presently a score of locusts, disputed obstinately. Nov/ Chloris and Jurgen were invisible, even to each other, as they talked under her oak-tree : but before them the fields shone mistily under a gold-dusted dome, for this night seemed builded of stars. And the white towers of Pseudopolis also could Jurgen see, as he laughed there and took his pleasure with Chloris. He reflected that very probably Achilles and Helen were laughing thus, and were not dissimilarly occupied, out yonder, in this night of wonder. …
With the dawn Jurgen arose, and left this Hamadryad Chloris still asleep. He stood where he overlooked the city, and the shirt of Nessus glittered in the level sun rays: and Jurgen thought of Queen Helen. Then he sighed, and went back to Chloris, and wakened her with the sort of salutation that appeared her just due.
Topical Subject
Historical fiction; Fantasy fiction; Linoleum block-printing
Personal Name Subject
Cabell, James Branch, 1879-1958; Ogden, Samuel Robinson, Jr. (1896-1985)
Language
eng
Genre
linocuts (prints); books
Local Genre
artwork; text
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Still Image
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image/jpg
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This material is in the public domain in the United States and thus is free of any copyright restriction. Acknowledgement of Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries as a source is requested.
Collection
Twenty-two Plates From Cabell's Jurgen
Source
Ogden S, James Branch Cabell Collection, James Branch Cabell Collection. Twenty-Two Plates from Cabell’s Jurgen. [publisher not identified]; 1929.
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