Estratto: ...dell'arte, un sentimento di equita rarissimo; poi dialoghi, schizzi, polemiche letterarie, articoli, bibliografie; una produzione continua, gittata qua e la sui giornali politici, sulle riviste, nelle strenne, dappertutto. Egli fu applaudito e lodato, i lettori lo amarono, ebbe qualcuna di quelle solite lettere che i sommi si degnano di scrivere per incoraggiamento ai neofiti, gli amici dissero: Mario diventera, diventera... i giornali gli rivolsero quell'atroce insulto, espresso con le volgari parole: vi e della stoffa.... In casa sua, invece, vi era la miseria. Vivevano...

Estratto: ...piacevolmente grassotto; era un'anomalia, una sovrapposizione bizzarra. Una testa forte su cui si ammassava una ricchezza cupa e pesante di capelli neri, intrecciati, stretti, raccolti, ma che finivano per piegare le forcinelle e per accumularsi sul collo, sfatti, a sprie semi-ritorte. Sulla fronte ne piccola frangia tagliata, ne ricciolini, ne nulla; si vedeva la nascita dei capelli gettati indietro, folta, possente, tracciando una riga nera sul bianco della pelle. Gli occhi erano nerissimi, brillanti come il jais, ma senza languori di sentimento, e senza profondita di pensiero....

Estratto: ...Serra dai fieri occhi d'un azzurro d'acciaio, dalla figura snella ed elegante, dai capelli che erano passati al castano: quel giovane adoratore cosi ardente, e cosi mite, cosi geloso e cosi indulgente, cosi austero per i terribili e continuati peccati di frivolezza che ella commetteva e cosi disposto irresistibilmente a perdonarglieli. La veste di seta dai tenui colori le rammentava quell'uomo che solo aveva osato rimproverarle l'infinita nullita della sua vita e la freddezza del suo piccolo cuore muliebre, e l'ipocrisia dei brevi amoretti, e la misera dispersione sentimentale...

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