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The dream-expedient vies in puerility with the hero's rescue of the heroine from deadly peril a thing that has actually happened about twice since the happily-named, and no less happily extinct, Helladotherium disported itself on the future site of Eden. I am no romancist. I repudiate shifts, and stand or fall by the naked truth.
Poet and romancist, s. of Sir Henry S., Deputy of Ireland, and Pres. of Wales, b. at the family seat of Penshurst, and ed. at Shrewsbury School and Oxf. He was at the French Court on the fateful August 24, 1572 the massacre of St. Bartholomew but left Paris soon thereafter and went to Germany and Italy.
The influence of Raff is of the utmost importance in MacDowell's music, and I have been told that the great romancist made a protégé of him, and would lock him in a room for hours till he had worked out the most appalling musical problems. Through Raff's influence he became first piano teacher at the Darmstadt Conservatorium in 1881.
Ibn Abd Alkohm, in fact, was a romancist of the first water. Perhaps the strongest argument against the theory that the pyramids were intended as strongholds for the concealment of treasure, resides in the fact that, search being made, no treasure has been discovered.
"As I sat waiting for the rain to cease, Pere Silas whiled away the time with a story," I said. "A story! What story? Pere Silas is no romancist." "Shall I tell Monsieur the tale?" "Yes: begin at the beginning. Let me hear some of Miss Lucy's French her best or her worst I don't much care which: let us have a good poignee of barbarisms, and a bounteous dose of the insular accent."
"Good Giulio! you are quite a romancist! you talk of angels without believing in them!" "I believe in them when I look at YOU!" he said, with all an Italian's impulsive gallantry. "Very pretty of you!" and she withdrew her hand from his too fervent clasp, "I feel sorry for myself that I cannot rightly appreciate so charming a compliment!"
"I don't think you're a perfect liar," answered Hamilton, "I think you're the most inefficient liar I've ever met." "Not even a liar, I'm a romancist, sir," Bones stiffened with dignity and saluted, but whether he was saluting Hamilton, or the spirit of Romance, or in sheer admiration was saluting himself, Hamilton did not know. "The fact is, sir," said Bones confidentially, "I'm writing a book!"
The massacre of September is one of the most lurid events of the Revolution, easier therefore for the romancist to deal with than for the historian. Its horrors are quite beyond question. At one point, Bicêtre, the killing continued until late on the 6th, nearly four days. The total number of victims was very large, possibly between 2,000 and 3,000.
Beneath all his shrewdness and ability he was at heart a dreamer, a romancist to whom life was an adventure in a half-real world. It was impossible to sleep. He tossed from side to side. Once he got up in the dark and drank great draughts of water; once again, as he thought of Mona, his wife, as she was in the first days of their married life, a sudden impulse seized him.
Had Sir Walter been able to throw his burdens from him, had he loosed the millstone from his neck and retired in full credit and comfort to his Abbotsford to pass the conclusion of peaceful and glorious days on the banks of the Tweed had we known him only as the greatest romancist of the world, the next to Shakspeare in large creation and revelation of mankind, proud had every Scotsman been of his name, and fondly had the nation cherished his memory.
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