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"'What does it matter, I exclaimed, 'if you do not love me? "'But I do love you, said Atala, and she bent over and kissed me. "Then with a wild look of terror, she pushed me away from her, and staggering up to the tree, she covered her face with her hands, and sobbed, rocking herself to and fro in her grief. "'Oh, my mother, my mother! she sobbed. 'I have forgotten my vow.
The publication of 'Atala' and the 'Genie du Christianisme' suddenly gave Chateaubriand celebrity, and attracted the attention of the First Consul.
"But when once you are united to a man as you are," the Baroness put in, "virtue requires you to remain faithful to him." "Till he dies," said Atala, with a knowing flash. "I shall not have to wait long. If you only knew how Daddy Vyder coughs and blows. Poof, poof," and she imitated the old man.
After marching for seventeen days, my captors brought me to the great savannah of Alachua, and camped in a valley not far from Cuscowilla, the capital of the Creeks. I was bound to the foot of a tree outside the town, and a warrior was set to watch over me. "But in the evening Atala came, and said to him, 'If you would like to go hunting, I will look after the prisoner.
This harsh statement could be freely substantiated: but it is enough to say that, when a girl, she preferred some forgotten rubbish called Henry and Frances to the Vicar of Wakefield: and that, when a woman, she deliberately offended Chateaubriand by praising the Itinéraire rather than the Génie du Christianisme, or Atala, or René, or Les Martyrs.
In those two books we detect already the disease and the cure in Obermann the irony, refined into a plaintive philosophy of "indifference" in Chateaubriand's Génie du Christianisme, the refuge from a tarnished actual present, a present of disillusion, into a world of strength and beauty in the Middle Age, as at an earlier period in René and Atala into the free play of them in savage life.
"You regain your courage, your book will be restored to you, but another time you must not forget the hour of supper. "Oh happy days! O my valley Noire! O Corinne! O Bernardin de Saint Pierre! O the Iliad! O Milleroye! O Atala! O the willows by the river! O my departed youth!
Ask her if she was married without the sacrament of marriage!" Atala looked at the Italian. "How is she any better than I am?" she asked. "I am prettier than she is." "Yes, but I am an honest woman," said the wife, "and you may be called by a bad name." "How can you expect God to protect you if you trample every law, human and divine, under foot?" said the Baroness.
He was succeeded in his mission by one of the Jesuit fathers, Joseph Aubery, who came to Medoctec about 1701, remaining there seven years. He then took charge of the Abenaki mission of St. Francis, where he continued for 46 years and died at the age of 82. Chateaubriand drew from his character and career materials for one of the characters in his well known romance "Atala."
And there was a traveled Frenchman, Chateaubriand, surely an expert in the art of eloquent prose, who had transferred to the pages of his American Indian stories, "Atala" and "Rene," the mystery and enchantment of our dark forests and endless rivers. But Chateaubriand, like Brockden Brown, is feverish.
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