The London Mercury, Vol. I, Nos. 1-6, November 1919 to April 1920Various
General
The London Mercury, Vol. I, Nos. 1-6, November 1919 to April 1920
Various
English literature -- Periodicals; London (England) -- Periodicals
My wife and I like best to remember him riding to meet us at the
gate of the Park at Brede. Born master of his sincere impressions he
was also a born horseman. He never appeared so happy or so much to
advantage as on the back of a horse. He had formed the project of
teaching my eldest boy to ride and meantime, when the child was about
two years old, presented him with his first dog.
I saw Stephen Crane a few days after his first arrival in London. I saw
him for the last time on his last day in England. It was in Dover, in
a big hotel, in a bedroom with a large window looking on to the sea.
He had been very ill and Mrs. Crane was taking him to some place in
Germany, but one glance at that wasted face was enough to tell me that
it was the most forlorn of all hopes. The last words he breathed out
to me were: "I am tired. Give my love to your wife and child." When
I stopped at the door for another look I saw that he had turned his
head on the pillow and was staring wistfully out of the window at the
sails of a cutter yacht that glided slowly across the frame, like a dim
shadow against a grey sky.
Those who have read his little tale, _Horses_, and the story, _The Open
Boat_, in the volume of that name, know with what fine understanding he
loved horses and the sea. And his passage on this earth was like that
of a horseman riding swiftly in the dawn of a day fated to be short and
without sunshine.
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES AND NEWS
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answer all queries addressed to him._
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