CONTENTS PAGE CHAPTER XI. A DINNER AND A DUEL 1 CHAPTER XII. LITTLE LOUISE GROWS UP 47 CHAPTER XIII. ROSANETTE AS A LOVELY TURK 62 CHAPTER XIV. THE BARRICADE 110 CHAPTER XV. "HOW HAPPY COULD I BE WITH EITHER" 193 CHAPTER XVI. UNPLEASANT NEWS FROM ROSANETTE 214 CHAPTER XVII. A STRANGE BETROTHAL 242 CHAPTER XVIII. AN AUCTION 292 CHAPTER XIX. A BITTER-SWEET REUNION 315 CHAPTER XX. "WAIT TILL YOU COME TO FORTY YEAR" 323 ILLUSTRATIONS FACING PAGE "AH! THANKS! YOU ARE GOING TO SAVE ME!" (See page 107) Frontispiece "CAN I LIVE WITHOUT YOU?" 58 WHEN A WOMAN SUDDENLY CAME IN 315 THE TEMPTATION OF ST. ANTONY OR, A REVELATION OF THE SOUL By Gustave Flaubert CONTENTS CHAPTER I. PAGE A HOLY SAINT 1 CHAPTER II. THE TEMPTATION OF LOVE AND POWER 16 CHAPTER III. THE DISCIPLE, HILARION 40 CHAPTER IV. THE FIERY TRIAL 48 CHAPTER V. ALL GODS, ALL RELIGIONS 99 CHAPTER VI. THE MYSTERY OF SPACE 143 CHAPTER VII. THE CHIMERA AND THE SPHINX 151 ILLUSTRATIONS "DO NOT RESIST, I AM OMNIPOTENT!" (See page 157) Frontispiece HE LETS GO THE TORCH IN ORDER TO EMBRACE THE HEAP 26 THE TEMPTATION OF ST. ANTHONY By Gustave Flaubert Translated By Lafcadio Hearn Illustrations By Odilon Redon CONTENTS INTRODUCTION ARGUMENT THE TEMPTATION OF ST. ANTHONY I II III IV V VI VII NOTE ADDENDA ILLUSTRATIONS ... through the long hair half hiding her face, I thought that I could recognize Ammonaria ... 6 Saint Anthony: Help me, O my God! 16 And there are columns of basalt everywhere,... The light falls from the vaults above 38 there is a sweetness in my kisses as of a fruit dissolving within thy heart ... 58 ... a long blood-colored chrysalis 100 ... the flowers fall and the head of a python appears 105 ... and in the darkness beside him people are praying... 107 ... and he beholds an arid plain, mamillated with knolls 113 She drags a black sponge from her bosom, covers it with kisses ... 115 I have buried myself in solitude, like the rhinoceros. I dwelt in the tree behind me 119 Helena - Ennoia 125 ... instantly arise three goddesses 157 Intelligence became mine! I became the Buddha. 165 ... and eyes without heads were floating like mollusks 167 I, the first consciousness of Chaos, arose from the abyss that I might harden matter, and give a law unto forms 168 Here is the Good Goddess, the Idæan of the mountains 178 I am still the Great Isis!—none has yet lifted my veil! My fruit is the Sun! 188 ... he falls head foremost into the abyss 206 Anthony: What is the purpose of all that? The Devil: There is no purpose. 224 The Old Woman: Of what art thou afraid?—a wide, black hole! Perhaps it is a void! 235 Death: Mine irony depasseth all others! 240 Death: It is I that make thee awful! Let us intertwine! 241 Anthony: Somewhere there must be primordial figures, whose bodily forms are only symbols 242 I myself have sometime beheld in the sky, as it were, forms of spirits 242 The Sphinx: ...