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The psychology of the crowd was little understood until late in the nineteenth century, when a great deal of attention was turned to it by a group of French philosophers. The subject has been most fully studied by M. Gustave Le Bon, who devoted some two hundred pages to his Psychologie des Foules.
But the serpent of futile melancholy, of the brief cadence of mortal dreams, and of the vanishing seconds that defile down the corridor of time, has stolen into this Garden of the Hesperides. Puvis de Chavannes, no more than Gustave Moreau, could escape the inquietude of his times. He is occasionally Parisian and often pessimist.
Only, I must insist that in this instance it be nothing more than a feint, chevalier. Don't let him go too near at the time of doing it. Don't let him open the lion's jaws with his own hands. You do that. Do you mind?" "Of a certainty not, monsieur. Gustave, show the good doctor how you go about it when papa lets you do the trick.
"My name is Vigneron," he said; "I am the head clerk at the Ministry of Finances, and applied for leave in order that I might help my wife to take our son Gustave to Lourdes. The dear lad places all his hope in the Blessed Virgin, to whom we pray morning and evening on his behalf. We are in a second-class compartment of the carriage just in front of yours."
She much more feared that the result of any attentions on the part of such a man would be rather calculated to compromise the orphan's name, or at least to mislead her expectations, than to secure her the shelter of a wedded home. Moreover, she had cherished plans of her own for Isaura's future. Madame Savarin had conceived for Gustave Rameau a friendly regard, stronger than that which Mrs.
After the compliments of the day had been paid to his ladylove, Gustave expressed a desire for a few moments' conversation with her father, who led him into an adjoining cabinet and seated himself by his side. "What is it you wish of me, my young friend?" said he, kindly. Gustave was silent for a moment, as if endeavoring to rally his ideas, and then spoke out in a manly way:
I believe I am held in remembrance in the town as a typical Englishman! Well, to take up the thread of my narrative like Don Quixote, "I travelled all that day." If any reader can remember Gustave Doré's illustration of the good knight on that occasion, he will have some idea of how the sky looked on this very ride of mine.
Gustave, restrained by Maurice and Amedee, and as drunk as a Pole, responded to his friend's objurgations by a torrent of tears, and fell under the table, breaking some of the dishes. "Now, then, we must take the baby home," said Maurice, signing to the boy.
If I return with my uncle's consent, and say to him, 'I will make your child happy; give her to me for my wife; I will surround her path with all the joys a husband has ever bestowed on woman; if I tell him this, think you he will deny me?" Lenora cast down her eyes. "You know his infinite goodness, Gustave," said she. "My happiness is his only thought on earth; he will thank God and bless you."
"You see, as the case now stands, they think they have the claimant to this money in Miss Halliday Sheldon's stepdaughter. But if they got an inkling of Susan Meynell's marriage and, in point of fact the actual state of the case they might try to get hold of my friend, Gustave Lenoble.
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