Taleverna

GEORGE DELANY--DECEASED. "It is a good thing to be alive," Natalie Brande repeated slowly, gazing, as it were, far off through her half-closed eyelids. Then turning to me and looking at me full, wide-eyed, she asked: "A good thing for how many?" "For all; for everything that is alive." "Faugh! For few things that are alive. For hardly anything. You say it is a good thing to be alive. How often have you said that in your life?" "All my life through," I answered stoutly. My constitution was a good one, and I had live…