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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Iole, by Robert W. Chambers 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.org Title: Iole Author: Robert W. Chambers Illustrator: Arthur C. Becker Release Date: January 25, 2008 [EBook #24426] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK IOLE *** Produced by Louise Hope, Suzanne Shell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) WORKS OF ROBERT W. CHAMBERS Cardigan A King and a Few Dukes The Maid-at-Arms The Conspirators The Reckoning The Cambric Mask Lorraine The Haunts of Men Maids of Paradise Outsiders Ashes of Empire A Young Man in a Hurry The Red Republic In Search of the Unknown The King in Yellow In the Quarter The Maker of Moons The Mystery of Choice Iole FOR CHILDREN Outdoor-Land River-Land Orchard-Land Forest-Land [Illustration] [Illustration] IOLE [Illustration] [Illustration: "The little things," he continued, delicately perforating the atmosphere as though selecting a diatom.] IOLE By ROBERT W. CHAMBERS [Illustration] D. APPLETON & CO. New York MDCCCCV [Illustration] Copyright, 1905, by ROBERT W. CHAMBERS _Published May, 1905_ TO GEORGE HORACE LORIMER [Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration] PREFACE Does anybody remember the opera of _The Inca_, and that heartbreaking episode where the Court Undertaker, in a morbid desire to increase his professional skill, deliberately accomplishes the destruction of his middle-aged relatives in order to inter them for the sake of practise? If I recollect, his dismal confession runs something like this: "It was in a bleak November When I slew them, I remember, As I caught them unawares Drinking tea in rocking-chairs." And so he talked them to death, the subject being "What Really is Art?" Afterward he was sorry-- "The squeak of a door,
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