Dmitri

Excerpt from Dmitri: A Tragi Comedy
Dead Words are but a sorry makeshift for action: when they step out of their province and attempt to express feeling, character, emotion, - poor bunglers, they want an Interpreter. Like busy, glibly chattering guides, they can only show us round and round the outside of the cathedral, gesticulating at the dull grey windows. Only to Music is it given to open the door with her skeleton key, that fits all locks, and let us in to the glories of the stained glass.
Whoever, then, knows the twenty-second of Chopin's Mazurkas, knows more than words can tell him of the story of Marina; and the Overture to Bizet's Carmen is the 'Open, Sesame!' to the fortunes of Dmitri.
I have only to add that the story is true.
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