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[52] Why a man who is represented as being intensely, diabolically, wicked, but almost diabolically shrewd, should employ, and go on employing, as his instrument a blundering poltroon like the Gascon Chaudoreille, is a question which recurs almost throughout the book, and, being unanswered, is almost sufficient to damn it.
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The story of the mad shipwright Michel, who fell in love with the old dwarf beggar--so unlike her of Bednal Green or King Cophetua's love--at the church door of Avranches; who followed her to Greenock and got inextricably mixed between her and the Queen of Sheba; who for some time passed his nights in making love to Belkis and his days in attending to the wisdom of the Fairy of the Crumbs (she always brought him his breakfast after the Sabaean Nights); who at last identified the two in one final rapture, after seeking for a Singing Mandrake; and who spent the rest (if not, indeed, the whole) of his days in the Glasgow Lunatic Asylum;--is at times so ineffably charming that one is almost afraid oneself to repeat the refrain-- C'est moi, c'est moi, c'est moi!
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_Smarra_--which made a great impression on its contemporaries and had a strong influence on the Romantic movement generally--is a fantasia of nightmare based on the beginning of _The Golden Ass_, with, again, a sort of prologue and epilogue of modern love.
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Now I think that, if I took the trouble to do so, I could point out improbabilities in this second story sufficient to damn it on its own showing.
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and his (one regrets to use the good old English word) pimp, M. le Duc de Saint-Aignan, exhausted the resources of carpentry and the stores of printer's ink to gain access to the apartment of Mlle.
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This worthy peer (who, as a Cromwellian, exiled himself after the Restoration) had, like others of the godly, a bastard son, enjoying at "_temp._ of tale" the remarkable courtesy title of "Lord David Dirry-Moir," but called by the rabble, with whom his sporting tastes make him a great favourite, "Tom-Jim-Jack."
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The intense absurdity of his personified wapentakes, of his Tom-Jim-Jacks, of his courtesy-title bastards, he deliberately declined (as in the anecdote above given) to see.
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A Tory critic who cannot admire Shelley or Swinburne, Dickens or Thackeray, because of their politics, is merely an ass, an animal unfortunately to be found in the stables or paddocks of every party.
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He walks, talks, fights, eats, drinks, _thinks_ even, and makes love if he does not feel it, exactly like a human being.
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Nor do the other "seconds"--Julien's brutal peasant father and brothers, the notables of Verrières, the husband, M. de Rênal (himself a _gentillâtre_, as well as a man of business, a bully, and a blockhead), and the hero's just failure of a father-in-law, the Marquis de la Mole--seem to me to come up to the mark.
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The "interior" business was largely followed and elaborated; it might be argued--though the contention would have to be strictly limited and freely provisoed--that Naturalism in general--as the "Rougon-Macquart" scheme certainly was in particular--was a sort of bastard of the _Comédie_.
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A weaker genius would have attached to the skin of that terrible wild ass--gloomier, but more formidable than even the beast in Job[168]--some attendant evil spirit, genie, or "person" of some sort.
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They are both instances (and one at least contains an elaborate vindication) of the "novel of purpose," and they are by themselves almost enough to damn it.
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A third traveller (one knows the wretch) gets in at the last moment, and when, not to waste too much time, they begin to make love in English, he very properly tells them that he is an Englishman, assuring them, however, that he is probably going to sleep, and in any case will not attend to anything they say.
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I never thought it the worst compliment paid to Englishmen--the Indian opinion of us, as reported by the late M. Darmesteter--that we cared for nothing but fighting, sport, and making love.
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The Red Bastard is himself almost a giant; but the Saracen is a fiend, and though it seems that in this case the Devil _can_ be dead, he can, it seems also, only be killed at Poitiers in his original tomb.
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Her relations with a clever and not ungentlemanly _roué_, one M. de Servigny; his difficulties (these are very curiously and cleverly told) in making love to a girl not of the lower class (at least apparently) and not vicious; his attempt to brusque the matter; her horror at it and at the coincident discovery of her mother's ways; her attempt to poison herself; and her salvage by Servigny's coolness and devotion--are capitally done.
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The reformation and salvation of Jean de Santenoge--a poor (indeed penniless) gentleman, who lives in a little old manor, or rather farm-house, buried in the woods, and whose sole occupations are poaching and making love to peasant girls--are most agreeably conducted by the agency of the daughter of a curmudgeonly forest-inspector (who naturally regards Santenoge with special abhorrence).
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As for the argument that as Naturalism is opposed to Romance and Classicalism is opposed to Romance, _therefore_ Naturalism is Classical--this is undoubtedly a very common form of bastard syllogism, but to labour at proving its bastardy would be somewhat ridiculous.
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de (Delphine Gay, 1805-1855), 312 _note_ Gissing, 30 Gladstone, Mr., 434 _Glu, La_, 554 _Goddam!_, 45 _note_ Godwin, 182 Goethe, 24, 25, 154 _Golden Ass, The_, 88 Goncourts, the--Edmond (1822-1896), 169, 206, 362, 399, 411, 423 ---- Jules (1830-1870), 452, 460-466, 487 _Grand Cyrus, Le_, 111 _Grande Bretèche, La_, 162, 163, 173 _Grande Marnière, La_, 535 _sq._ _Grangette_, 383 Gray, 567 Gregory, Mr. George, 70 _note_ Guérin, Eugénie de, 283 Guizot, 345 _Gustave ou Le Mauvais Sujet_, 44-48 _Guy Mannering_, 152 _note_ _Guzla, La_, 250 "Gyp", 437, 554 Halsbury, Lord, 434 Hamilton, A., v, xix, 134, 209 _Hamlet_, 15, 26, 157, 235 _Han d'Islande_, 97-100 Harrisse, M. H., xviii Haydon, 233 _note_ Hazlitt, 135 _note_, 210 _Headless Horseman, The_, 397 Hearn, Mr. L., 210 _note_, 222 Heine, 19 _note_, 411, 497 Hélisenne de Crenne, 178 _note_, 487 Henley, Mr., 319 _note_, 324, 328 _note_, 330 _note_ _Hereward the Wake_, 391 _Hernani_, 105 _note_ _Herodias_, 408 Herodotus, 121 Herrick, 210 _Histoire des Treize_, 166, 167 _Histoire du Lieutenant Valentin_, 456 _Histoire d'une Puce Enragée_, 270, 277 _Histoire sans Nom, Une_, 455 Hitchcock, Miss Elsie, xii _Hiver à Majorque, Un_, 177 _note_ and _sq._ Hoffmann, 81 and 82 _note_, 230 Homer, 27, 32, 33 _note_, 268 _note_, 340 _note_ _Honneur d'Artiste_, 420 _sq._ Hook, Theodore, 44 _note_, 56, 353 Horace, 404, 425 _Horla, Le_ (and other terror-stories of Maupassant's), 503 _note_, 508, 509 Houghton, Lord, 255 _note_ Hugo, Victor Marie (1802-1885), vi, x, 19, 40, 96-133, 147 _note_, 167, 173, 182, 188, 208, 227, 256 _note_, 262, 266, 277, 343, 348, 351, 356, 386, 450, 459 _note_, 467, 472, 497, 556, 557, 564, 569 Hunt, Leigh, 43 Huysmans, Joris Karl (1848-1907), 452, 453 _note_, 485, 515, 516, 556 _Hypatia_, 31 _Hyperion_ (Keats's), 169 _Idées et Sensations_, 461 _Ilka_, 387-388 _Il Viccolo di Madama Lucrezia_, 243-244 _Indiana_, 177 _note_ and _sq._ _Inès de las Sierras_, 81 _sq._, 246, 339 Irving, Washington, 317 _Isabel de Bavière_, 328 _It is Never too Late to Mend_, 102 _Ivanhoe_, 124 _note_, 353 _Jack_, 423 _sq._ Jacob, P. L., 231 _note_ _Jacquerie, La_, 249, 250 _Jacques le Fataliste_, 236, 526 _note_ James, G. P. R., 201, 321, 351 ---- Mr. H., 399, 493 _note_ Janin, Jules Gabriel (1804-1874), 73, 231 _note_, 369, 370 _note_, 453 _Japhet in Search of a Father_, 61 _note_ _Jean_, 51-54 _Jean Sbogar_, 95 _note_ Jeffrey, 566 _Jérôme Paturot_, 306-312, 499 _Jésus Christ en Flandre_, 162 _Jettatura_, 226 _Jeune-France, Les_, 227 _sq._, 243, 307, 441 Johnson, Dr., xix, 17, 65, 370, 383 _note_, 513 _Jonathan Wild_, 403 Jonson, Ben, 121, 409 _note_ _Journal des Goncourt, Le_, 461, 462, 465 _Juif Errant, Le_, 296 _Julia de Trécoeur_, 381 _note_, 418 _sq._ _Julie_, 225 Juvenal, 404 Karr, Alphonse (1808-1890), 281, 316, 317, 326 Keats, 184, 233 _note_ _Kenilworth_, 124 _note_, 353 Ker, Professor, xii, 15 _note_ Kingsley, Charles, 31, 111, 123, 351, 520 Kipling, Mr., 3, 70 _note_, 489 Kock, Paul de (Charles P., 1794-1871), vi, x, 9, 40-63, 69, 74 _note_, 80, 95 _note_, 158, 188, 302, 305, 308, 349, 357, 569 _L'Abbé Aubain_, 242 _L'Abbé Tigrane_, 279, 519 _sq._ _L'Abbesse de Castro_, 140 Laclos, 6, 231, 302, 359, 360, 426, 487 Lacordaire, 283 _L'Affaire Lerouge_, 439, 440 _La Femme de Feu_, 516 _La Femme, le Mari et l'Amant_, 54-56 _La Fille aux Trois Jupons_, 60 La Fontaine, 227 _note_ La Harpe, 38 _Là-Haut_, 547 _sq._ _Lalla Rookh_, 31 Lamartine, 25, 283 Lamb, Charles, 82, 256, 341, 348 _note_ Lamennais, 34, 188, 205, 283, 467 La Mettrie, 190 _Lamiel_, 147, 148 Landor, 258 _L'Âne Mort et la Femme Guillotinée_, 370 _note_, 153 Lang, Mr. A., 210 _note_, 256, 292, 324, 437 _La Religieuse_, 516 La Rochefoucauld, 426 _L'Artiste et le Soldat_, 72 _Last Days of Pompeii, The_, 31 Latouche, Henri de (really Hyacinthe Joseph Alexandre Thabaud de L. (1785-1851)), 154 and _note_ _L'Attaque du Moulin_, 473, 485 _Launfal_, xiii _Laure Ruthwen_, 95 _note_ _L'Eau Courante_, 551 Le Breton, M., 168 Leconte de Lisle, 262 _note_, 488 _note_ _L'Écueil_, 294 _L'Éducation Sentimentale_, 403 _sq._, 558 Leech, 499 _Légende des Siècles, La_, 110 _Légende du Mont Saint-Michel_, 502 _Lélia_, 179 _sq._, 577 Lemaître, M. Jules, 15 _note_ Le Moyne, le Père, 262 note _L'Enfant de sa Femme_, 462 _L'Ensorcelée_, 450 _sq._ Leopardi, 273 _L'Épave_, 501 Lesage, 301, 346, 362, 471 "Les Quatre Évangiles," Zola's, 474, 477-480 "Les Trois Villes," Zola's, 474, 477 _Lettres de Mon Moulin_, 423 _sq._ _L'Évangéliste_, 411, 426 Lewis, "Monk," 251 _L'Homme aux Trois Culottes_, 60 _L'Homme Qui Rit_, 122-127, 131, 348, 472 _L'Hôtellerie Sanglante_, 303 _Liaisons Dangereuses, Les_, 143 and _note_, 487 _Liber Amoris_, 135 _note_ _Life in London_, 44 _L'Immortel_, 424 _sq._ _Lion Amoureux, Le_, 300 _note_ _Lionne, La_, 300 _note_ _L'Irréparable_, 554 Locker, Mr., 488 Lockhart, 30 _Loge à Camille, Une_, 384 _Lokis_, 245-246 Lokman, 83-86 _Lolotte et Fanfan_, 40, 70 Longfellow, 527 _note_ "Loti, Pierre," 554 _Louis Lambert_, 166, 174 _Louves de Machecoul, Les_, 328 _L'Ouvreuse de Loges_, 75-77 Lucian, 256, 404 _Lucifer_, 524 _sq._ Lucretius, 26, 546 _Lucrezia Floriani_, 177 _note_ and _sq._ _Ludovica_, 72-75, 77 _Lui et Elle_, 177 _note_ Macfarlane, Ch., 342 Mackenzie, 14 Maclise, 47 _note_ _Madame Bovary_, 169, 400 _sq._, 558 _Madame de Chamblay_, 328 _Madame Eugénio_, 456 _Madame Gervaisais_, 461 _sq._ _Madame Putiphar_, 322 _Madelon_, 434 _sq._ _Mademoiselle Annette_, 551 _Mademoiselle de Clermont_, 68 _Mademoiselle de Kérouare_, 291 _Mademoiselle de La Seiglière_, 290 _Mademoiselle de Maupin_, 235, 236 _Mademoiselle Giraud ma Femme_, 516 _Mademoiselle La Quintinie_, 179 _sq._, 416, 557 Magnin, 283 _Maison de Penarvan, La_, 291 _Maison du Chat-qui-Pelote, La_, 160 _note_ _Maison Tellier, La_, 503 _note_ Maistre, X. de, 384 _note_ _Maître Cornélius_, 162 _Maître de Forges, Le_, 534 _sq._ _Maître Pierre_, 436 _Man of Feeling, The_, 14 Manning, Cardinal, 520 _note_ _Manon Lescaut_, 225, 346, 369, 372, 393, 394, 400, 426 _Manuscrit de M. Larsonnier, Le_, 554 note Maquet, A., 321, 326-327 _Mare au Diable, La_, 179 _sq._ _Margot_, 253 _Mariage dans le Monde, Un_, 418 _Marianna_, 290 Marie de France, xiii Marivaux, 46, 209, 346, 362, 471, 567 Marlowe, 301 _Marmion_, 566 _Marmontel_, 6, 69, 416 _Marquis de Pierrerue, Le_, 522 _sq._ _Marquis de Villemer, Le_, 179 _sq._ Marryat, 64, 297, 381 Martial, 227 note, 404 Martineau, Miss, 505 _note_ Martyrs, Les, 20 _sq._, 79, 562 _Master Humphrey's Clock_, 457 _Mateo Falcone_, 240 _Mathilde_, 297 _note_ Maturin, 166 _note_, 170, 301 Maupassant, Guy de (1850-1893), vi, viii _note_, ix, 156 _note_, 163, 170, 226, 237, 386, 413, 417, 449, 464, 465, 467, 484-515, 548, 558, 560, 569 _Mauprat_, 200 Mayne-Reid, Captain, 397 Méry, Joseph (1798-1866), 281, 312-318 Méryon, 256 _Melmoth Réconcilié_, 166 _Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe_, 20 _sq._, 347 _Mémoires du Diable, Les_, 300, 302 _Ménage de Garçon, Un_, 165 _Ménage du Pasteur Naudié, Le_, 550 _sq._ Mendès, Catulle (?-?