Marigold : $b A story

Name: Marigold : $b A story
Author: Allonby, Edith
Allonby, Edith
Fantasy fiction
BY

                             THE AUTHOR OF
                             “JEWEL SOWERS”


                                 LONDON

                          GREENING & CO., LTD.

                                  1905
                      (_All Rights Reserved_)


              TABLE OF CONTENTS

              AN INTRODUCTION
              AN INTERLUDE
              THE AFTERTHOUGHT
              CHAPTER I
              CHAPTER II
              CHAPTER III
              CHAPTER IV
              CHAPTER V
              CHAPTER VI
              CHAPTER VII
              CHAPTER VIII
              CHAPTER IX
              CHAPTER X
              CHAPTER XI
              CHAPTER XII
              CHAPTER XIII
              CHAPTER XIV
              CHAPTER XV
              CHAPTER XVI
              CHAPTER XVII
              CHAPTER XVIII
              CHAPTER XIX
              CHAPTER XX
              CHAPTER XXI
              CHAPTER XXII
              CHAPTER XXIII
              CHAPTER XXIV
              CHAPTER XXV
              CHAPTER XXVI
              CHAPTER XXVII
              CHAPTER XXVIII
              CHAPTER XXIX
              CHAPTER XXX


                              _SCENE_

 LUCIFRAM:--_A World of Shadows and contrariness, situate
       near to Hell--not meant for an indifferent caricature of another
       sphere_.


                             _PERSONS_

 ST ARMAND:--_The voice of one crying in the Spirits’
       Wilderness. When undisguised, Plucritus, Prince of Lucifram._

 VESTNE:--_His wife_.

 MARIGOLD:--_Princess of Ellel (an estate in Lucifram).
       Subsisting of a “reasonable soul” and flesh to correspond._

 ALICE:--_A lady’s maid who, amongst other things, had learnt
       the art of cooking_.

 TIMOTHY:--_One, not by conversion of the godhead into flesh,
       but by taking of Childhood into God_.

 ALPHONSO:--_High Priest of the Golden Serpent_.

 VESTASIAN:--_The Supreme Disposer of Gifts to those on
       Lucifram_.

 MR BARRINGCOURT:--_One of Vestasian’s household_.




MARIGOLD




AN INTRODUCTION

THE PRINCE OF LUCIFRAM


Nature, expressionless and even, had obeyed the even rule. Never
richest curtain in the hall of richest king fell so softly, in such
luxuriance, as this one of dusky night--glittering with diamonds, in
the dull, blue flights of space. A million times and more the mute deft
slave had drawn the heavy folds, clasped to her ankle-chains, across
the spinning world. Tongueless, soulless, brainless, the machine of
ordered motion--possessing no heart, knowing no pulse--the world’s
great mother--most infinitely small.

There over Lucifram, the night descended. The night-winds sang
because the angel harps once rustled in the breeze--years since, no
doubt. The sound remained, an echo, from which all joyousness had
vanished--unutterably sad--and something sweet.
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Marigold : $b A story

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