The Young Apollo And Other Stories
“WINTHROP CHANLER paid her last visit to my little pavilion in the Forest of Fontainbleau in the early 1950s, she had already passed her eightieth birthday and was the last survivor of what I like to think of as the galaxy of the American Renaissance. She had been dubbed by Henry James the most intellectual American woman (or had he said the only intellectual?); she had sat with Henry Adams under the blue brilliance of the windows of Chartres; she had motored in Italy and in Spain with Edith Wha...rton. As a girl, she had played the piano by listening to Liszt; as an equestrian, she had studied manège in Vienna. Tall and serene, she had gazed down the little green slope that unrolled from my terrace through geometrical garden plots to the pièce d'eau in the middle distance and asked me, "Tell me one thing, Leonardo Luchesi. What have you done to deserve so much beauty in your life? Have you sold you soul to the devil?" "Not quite. I may have mortgaged it. Let us hope that I shall have paid it off before my time comes." Have I?MoreLess
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