The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-06-14
NIGHT;
a NIGHTMARE.

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custom every evening. after 6Ensr.
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Tery Mid.
IN going down 20 the bozlsTar6s,
iooksd 81 the black river, strexn with
starr. above re. formed IN the heavens
by the roofs 81 the houses IA the street,
mbieh, On account os ito zlndings. made
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real river
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planets % the gas ieis.
- many lights barn; On high and IN the
city that the darkness seemed luminous
starry nights are more gay than the
open. sunshinY days.
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blaze u light. There was movement,
lsaThter and drinking.
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Ia what theatsry ] know not II xss
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left. ruy heart depressed nv this undiru-
med reflection ~ light from the gold Of
the balcony by the artificial sparkle Of
the huge crystal lamp. BY the hedge u
fire 81 the footlights. by the melancholy
q this false ard artificial briiliancy.
I reached the Champs Ulysses. where
the concert cafes looked like illuminated
green rooms among the leaves.
The chestnut trees. frettei with golden
light. presented painted appearance, like
phosphorescent trees.
The electric light globes, shining silver
pale, seemed moons eggs fallen from
heaven, or enormous pearls almost alive,
which. with their brightness. nacreous.
mysterious. regal. made the gas jets-the
dirty. common gas iets-and the wreaths
Of colored glass. seem pale.
stopped under the Arc de Triurnphe. To
look 1t the avenue, the long and splendid
avenue, lighted up. and reaching 20 Paris
between two lines Of fire. and then al the
stars. the stars on high. the mysterious
stars thrown by chance into immensitv.
where they form those strange cOnstella-
tions. which make us dream and think.
and think and dream.
entered the Bots de Boulogne, and re-
manned there a long. long time.
4 strange trembling came over me. an
unforeseen and powerful emotion, an excl
tation of myithoughts, bordering on mad
ness.
walked long, long, then rctraced my
steps
What time was il when I repassed the
Arc de Triumphe? do not know.
The city slept, and clouds. dark and
enormous, slowly erept over the sky.
For the FIRST time | felt that something
new and strange was going to happen.
Meseeme that IL vas growing cold, that
the atmosphere was thickeninC-that night
my beloved night, was heavy on nv heart !
The avenue was almost deserted now.
Two policemen were walking near the cab
stands. and on the roads dimly lighted by
the gas lights that seemed dying. a file Of
wagons filed with vegetables were going TO
the markets. They were moving slowly.
loaded with carrots turnipS and cabbages.
The unseen drivers slept, the horses
walked with measured gait. following the
preceding wagon without making any
noise on the wooden pavement
Before each light on the sidewalk the
carrots lighted up in red, the turnips in
white. the cabhages in green; and they
passed one after the other, these wagons
red like fire. silver white, emerald green
| followed them. then turned by Rovale
street and came back 20 the boulevards
No longer any one there, no more lighted
M cafes.
A few belated persons only who hurried
along.
had never seen Paris so dead, so de-
serted
looked al my watch. Two O'Clock! A