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THE KING IN YELLOW.

Then he smiled, saying: “For whom do you wait? Seek her throughout the world!”

I answered, “My world is here between these walls and the sheet of glass above; here among gilded flagons and dull jewelled arms, tarnished frames and canvasses, black chests and high-backed chairs, quaintly carved and stained in blue and gold.”