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Amiel might have been saved from despair by love and marriage, by paternity, by strenuous and successful literary production; and this mental habit of his this tyranny of ideal conceptions, helped by the natural accompaniment of such a tyranny, a critical sense of abnormal acuteness stood between him and everything healing and restoring.
Amiel may be taken as the type of such writers. In confiding to his Journal his hopeless inability for expressing his high thought, he expressed what is infinitely more valuable to us himself. Nor, again, does it follow that the man who thus gets himself individualized in literature is the kind of man we care about or approve of.
Senancour and Maurice de Guérin in one, seem to have been supplemented here by a larger experience, a far greater education, than either of them had attained to. And with a writer so vivid and impressive as Amiel, those varieties of tendency are apt to present themselves as so many contending persons.
As it was, Amiel threw himself into the competition for the chair, was appointed professor, and then found himself in a hopelessly false position, placed on the threshold of life, in relations and surroundings for which he was radically unfitted, and cut off by no fault of his own from the milieu to which he rightly belonged, and in which his sensitive individuality might have expanded normally and freely.
The fact that a week before the offer of help in that delicate operation would have been regarded as an insult to her intelligence failed to occur to her to-day. She burned with humiliation as she remembered that after a half hour of seeing Jennie's line carefully prepared, she had handed her own to Amiel with the air of one doing only what was expected of her.
"No matter how frightful they are, not as bad as what you offer us. Let us die with our illusions, rather than live without them. Such a life as that, is a death in life!" "He who has deciphered the secret of life and found the answer," says the disenchanted, but harmonious voice of Amiel, "is no longer bound on the great wheel of existence, he has quitted the world of the living.
I cannot plead much greater affection for the lucubrations of Amiel than for Count Tolstoi's dealings with that odd compound of crudity and rottenness, the Russian nature; but Mr Arnold's "Amiel" is admirable.
His tongue was quite as nimble as Cap'n Abe's had been. On the day of her arrival, Lou Grayling had believed she would be amused at Cardhaven. Ere the second twenty-four hours of her stay were rounded out, she knew she would be. During the day Cap'n Amazon and Amiel Perdue carried Louise's trunks upstairs and into the storeroom, handy to her own chamber.
Dorothea had promptly and intentionally fallen in love with the son of her next-door neighbor. Amiel fresh from his first year in college was a tall, broad-shouldered youth, with kindly brown eyes and a flash of white teeth when he smiled.
"Then, after the fight was over and they'd hove the others overboard, they begun to see they needed me to navigate the Galatea. They give me the choice of four inches of cold steel or actin' as navigator the bloody crew o' pirates!" "And what did ye do?" demanded Amiel Perdue, his mouth ajar. "Well," snorted the storekeeper, "ye can see I didn't choose a knife in my gizzard.
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