Gustave Flaubert

Three short works Gustave Flaubert

Book Excerpt: ... NERO. Die! I have scarce begun to live! Oh, what great deeds I should accomplish--deeds that should make Olympus tremble! I would fill up the bed of hoary ocean and speed across it in a triumphal car. I would still live--would see the sun once more, the Tiber, the Campagna, the Circus on the golden sands. Ah! let me live!DEATH. I will give thee a mantle for the tomb, and an eternal bed that shall be softer and more peaceful than the Imperial couch. NERO. Yet, I am loth to die. DEATH. Die, then![He gathers up the shroud, lying beside him on the ground, and bears away Nero--wrapped in its folds.]THE LEGEND OF SAINT JULIAN THE HOSPITALLERCHAPTER ITHE CURSEJulian's father and mother dwelt in a castle built on the slope of a hill, in the heart of the woods. The towers at its four corners had pointed roofs covered with leaden tiles, and the foundation rested upon....