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The Project Gutenberg eBook, Youth and the Bright Medusa, by Willa Cather This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Youth and the Bright Medusa Author: Willa Cather Release Date: September 30, 2004 [eBook #13555] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK YOUTH AND THE BRIGHT MEDUSA*** E-text prepared by Juliet Sutherland, Project Gutenberg Beginners Projects, Mary Meehan, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team YOUTH AND THE BRIGHT MEDUSA by WILLA CATHER 1920 "We must not look at Goblin men, We must not buy their fruits; Who knows upon what soil they fed Their hungry, thirsty roots?" CONTENTS COMING, APHRODITE! THE DIAMOND MINE A GOLD SLIPPER SCANDAL PAUL'S CASE A WAGNER MATINEE THE SCULPTOR'S FUNERAL "A DEATH IN THE DESERT" The author wishes to thank _McClure's Magazine_, _The Century Magazine_ and _Harper's Magazine_ for their courtesy in permitting the re-publication of three stories in this collection. The last four stories in the volume, _Paul's Case_, _A Wagner Matinee_, _The Sculptor's Funeral_, "_A Death in the Desert_," are re-printed from the author's first book of stories, entitled "The Troll Garden," published in 1905. Coming, Aphrodite! I Don Hedger had lived for four years on the top floor of an old house on the south side of Washington Square, and nobody had ever disturbed him. He occupied one big room with no outside exposure except on the north, where he had built in a many-paned studio window that looked upon a court and upon the roofs and walls of other buildings. His room was very cheerless, since he never got a ray of direct sunlight; the south corners were always in shadow. In one of the corners was a clothes closet, built against the partition, in another a wide divan, serving as a seat by day and a bed by night. In the front corner, the one farther from the window, was a sink, and a table with two gas burners where he sometimes cooked his food. There, too, in the perpetual dusk, was the dog's bed, and often a bone or two for his comfort. The dog was a Boston bull terrier, and Hed
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