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Excerpt from Gaston De Latour: An Unfinished Romance
The work, if completed, would have been a parallel study of character to Marius the Epicurean the scene shifted to another age of transition, when the old fabric of belief was breaking up, and when the problem of man's destiny and his relations to the unseen was under going a new solution. The interest would have centred round the spiritual development of a refined and cultivated mind, capable of keen enjoyment in the pleasures of the senses and of the intellect, but destined to find its complete satisfaction in that which transcends both. Something of the same motive appears in some of the Imaginary Portraits, such as Sebastian Van Storck, and Duke Car] of Rosenmold, under taken about the same time. How Mr. Pater would have developed the story we can only guess: from the fragmentary state in which he has left it, it seems not impossible that he was himself dissatisfied with the framework which he had begun, and that he deliberately aban doued it.
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