The Lover's Baedeker and Guide to Arcady — John Shaqi
The Lover's Baedeker and Guide to ArcadyWells, Carolyn
General
The Lover's Baedeker and Guide to Arcady
Wells, Carolyn
Love
Though difficult to get details in these first hours of confusion and
distress, it is known that the sumptuous air castle built by Claude
Melnotte for the Lady of Lyons is entirely demolished. The devastated
area is widespread, and from the most magnificent dream of marble halls
to the humblest vision of love in a cottage, all of the _Chateaux en
Espagne_ have fallen. It is feared that many loves have been lost in the
ruins. Even now the agents of the Love Insurance Company are on the spot
estimating the casualties. Many of the survivors declare they will
rebuild at the earliest possible moment. Indeed, it may safely be
predicted that new and more elaborate and beautiful castles in the air
will soon take the place of the old ones. Among the débris of ruined
hopes and shattered ideals, pathetic sights may be seen. Here a broken
resolution sticks up through the mass of fragments, there a broken
promise; and everywhere are fallen idols and upset plans. The explorer
is menaced by pits of boiling imagination and fine frenzies rolling. But
relief supplies are already being received. A ship, with Youth at the
helm and Pleasure at the prow, has just come into the harbor, bringing a
cargo of fresh hopes and such stuff as dreams are made of.
Owing to the prevalence of mirage it is difficult to give definite
statistics; but the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow is still
visible, and the sanguine, light-hearted people have already begun to
rear anew their castles in the air.
_From the Arcadian News_
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