內容簡介
內容簡介 Book Excerpt: rvey of life had always been marked by thetendency to seek out ultimate relations, to extend her researches to thelimit of her imaginative experience. But hitherto she had been like someyoung captive brought up in a windowless palace whose painted walls shetakes for the actual world. Now the palace had been shaken to its base, andthrough a cleft in the walls she looked out upon life. For the first momentall was indistinguishable blackness; then she began to detect vague shapesand confused gestures in the depths. There were people below there, menlike Denis, girls like herself--for under the unlikeness she felt thestrange affinity--all struggling in that awful coil of moral darkness, withagonized hands reaching up for rescue. Her heart shrank from the horror ofit, and then, in a passion of pity, drew back to the edge of the abyss.Suddenly her eyes turned toward Denis. His face was grave, but lessdisturbed. And men knew about these things! They carried this abyss intheir bosoms, and went about smiRead More