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Thus, in sculpture we have imitations, conscious or unconscious, of the Greek, of Michael Angelo, Donatello, Rodin, Barye, Meunier, Saint Gaudens; in painting, of Besnard, Merson, Monet, et cetera, as well as some more complex personal notes, more difficult to relate, although they too are related in the main, adding only another variation of character to the great mass of human ideality.
A few paces away a knot of people stood before a gate which a sergent-de-ville guarded. "But here we are at the villa," said Hanaud. They all looked up and, from a window at the corner upon the first floor a man looked out and drew in his head. "That is M. Besnard, the Commissaire of our police in Aix," said Perrichet.
The painter Besnard, who has specially devoted himself to this minute study of complementary colours, has given us some famous examples of it. The last consequence of these propositions is that the blending of the spectral tones is accomplished by a parallel and distinct projection of the colours.
Since that rather faint praise Gauguin is aloft with the Olympians. His art is essentially classic. Again his new themes puzzled critics. A decorative painter born, he is fit for the company of Baudry the eclectic, Moreau the symbolist, Puvis de Chavannes, greatest of modern mural painters, and the starlit Besnard. A rolling stone was Gauguin, one that gathered no stale moss.
"Well, you will come and report to me when you have made your investigation." And he passed on without another question or remark. The group of men watched him go, and it was not until he was out of earshot that Besnard turned with a deprecating gesture to Hanaud. "Yes, yes, he is a good judge, M. Hanaud quick, discriminating, sympathetic; but he has that bee in his bonnet, like so many others.
Hanaud asked slowly. It seemed to Ricardo that he read something in the aspect of this room too, which troubled his mind and increased his perplexity. "Yes," said Besnard confidently. "Every night Mme. Dauvray locked her jewels away in this safe. Vauquier told us so this morning. Every night she was never too tired for that.
It is sufficient to cite one text already published: "According to Josephine, he had no moral principle whatever; did he not seduce his sisters one after the other? " "I am not a man like other men, he said of himself, "and moral laws and those of propriety do not apply to me." "Souvenirs d'un nonagenaire," by Besnard. Sainte-Beuve, "Causeries du Lundi," article on Volney. Miot de Melito, I., 297.
These run from the glass door to the drive, and, for all the use they are to us, a harrow might have been dragged across them." Besnard drew himself up. "Not one of my officers has entered the room by way of this door. The strictest orders were given and obeyed. The ground, as you see it, is the ground as it was at twelve o'clock last night." Hanaud's face grew thoughtful.
M. Fleuriot was occupied with his own thoughts, and it was not until Besnard stepped forward noisily on the gravel that he became aware of the group in the garden. "This is M. Hanaud, of the Surete in Paris," said Louis Besnard. M. Fleuriot bowed with cordiality. "You are very welcome, M. Hanaud. You will find that nothing at the villa has been disturbed.
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