Periodic fits of depression and of almost sordid avarice showed that he was still the same person as the boy of fifteen who had spent those three months unwashed, unkempt, in savage squalor, by his fireside; and fits of brutal and almost maniac violence, as when, because a hair was sharply pulled out by the roots during the elaborate process of frizzling, he cut open with a blow of a heavy silver candlestick the temple of his faithful valet elia, who had nursed him like a mother, and whose only revenge, after this fearful scene, was to keep the two handkerchiefs steeped with his blood as a memorial and a warning to his master.
"The Countess of Albany"
Violet Paget (AKA Vernon Lee)
It was "Dream-Children" in the "Essays of elia."
"A Vanished Hand"
Sarah Doudney
God help thee, elia, how art thou sophisticated.
"Holbein"
Beatrice Fortescue
