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Even then it was anonymous to those who were not in the secret of the anagrammatic character of its title; and the preface and dedication are so worded as, in case of necessity, to give the printer a fair chance of falling back on the excuse that the work was intended for a mere jeu d'esprit.
Good gracious, gentlemen! enough of this foolish talk! Let them cut this Lambernier's throat and put an end to the subject! The theatre for dramatic music, the church for sacred! Le vin, le jeu; les belles, Voila mes seuls amours." A general protestation rose from the whole table at this verse, which was roared out in a lugubrious voice.
He felt for a moment oddly uneasy and distressed. "No, I don't suppose I have." "Ah, c'est dommage, mon pauvre jeune homme. But you don't like me. What can I do?" "I don't expect you to do anything." "Not my business, hein? No one 'ave any business 'ere who 'ave not got an illness. Ver' well. I will 'ave an illness a ver' leetle one. No, not ze tummy-ache. C'est vieux jeu ca.
Round a large table covered with a carpet of green cloth, which was divided by lines and figures, some men were seated on high chairs, making them appear like officers; others, on lower chairs, or simply standing about the table, pushed or picked up the louis and bank bills on the green cloth, and a strong voice repeated, in a monotonous tone: "Messieurs, faites votre jeu! Le jeu est fait!
"Or, shall I say, rather, that the child remains a child fresh, and pure, and innocent, and candid, as in the days when we played our jeu de volant in your grandmother's garden fit emblem of the light love of our future years. You remained a child, Hyacinth, and asked childish love-making from a man.
The Vicomte had begun a game, so could not talk to us, but some more officers were introduced, and, after the usual bowing, we began to talk. "Vous aimez le tennis, mademoiselle?" "Oui, monsieur," from Victorine. "Moi, je le déteste," from me. "Pas possible!" from every one. "Je vous assure on ne joue que le croquet chez nous." "Le croquet," from Victorine, "un jeu de Couvent!" "Le croquet!
Perhaps, in moments of anger or disillusionment when we find that neither self nor friend is what we thought the heart tears itself away from the grip of the cooler, calmer brain and speaks untrammelled. And such speeches are apt to linger in the mind long after the most brilliant jeu d'esprit has been forgotten.
Beneath all lay a greater matter, Emerson's grasp of the forms and conditions of progress, his reach of intellect, which could afford fair play to every one. His lecture on The Conservative is not a puzzling jeu d'esprit, like Bishop Blougram's Apology, but an honest attempt to set up the opposing chessmen of conservatism and reform so as to represent real life.
My husband was already writing in the Saturday Review and other quarters, and had won his literary spurs as one of the three authors of that jeu d'esprit of no small fame in its day, the Oxford Spectator. Our three children arrived in 1874, 1876, and 1879, and all the time I was reading, listening, talking, and beginning to write in earnest mostly for the Saturday Review.
All of this is a capital jeu d'esprit, but it is scarcely possible that Canticles was translated into Greek so early as Theocritus, and, curiously enough, the Septuagint Greek version of the Song has less linguistic likeness to the phraseology of Theocritus than has the Greek version of the Song by a contemporary of Akiba, the proselyte Aquila. This is a Hebraism, he thinks.
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