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Thus, a tale, for example, dealing either with "feminism" or "white slavery" as the handiest makeshift of spinsterdom or with the divorce habit and plutocratic iniquity in general, or with the probable benefits of converting clergymen to Christianity, or with how much more than she knows a desirable mother will tell her children finds the book's tentative explorer, just now, amply equipped with prejudices, whether acquired by second thought or second hand, concerning the book's topic.
"It's all wonderful wonderful out here, little Joan," he said, smiling tenderly down upon her sweet face from the superior height at which Cæsar carried him. "Seems like we're goin' to read pages of a fresh book. Seems like the old book's all mussed up, so we can't learn its lessons ever again." Joan returned the warmth of his gaze. But she shook her head with an assumption of wisdom.
This bally book's all wrong"; "I could write a better book than this myself, sir"; "The Johnny who wrote this book, sir well, st. st." Pennybet, however, used to tremble on the brink of identification, when he made the idiotic mistake of saying: "Shall I bring up my Cæsar, sir, I mean, my Reinhardt?"
Perhaps you'll like to pretend too, that you can hear her grandfather's voice steadying itself as he leans over the back of the chair and translates the inscription for her. The book's in English, you know, but that written inscription is in French.
She 's Irish by descent; Merion's daughter, witty as her father. It's odd you haven't met her. The mere writing of the book is extraordinarily good. If it 's put into capable hands for review! that's all it requires. And full of life . . . bright dialogue . . capital sketches. The book's a piece of literature. Only it must have competent critics! So he talked while Rainer ejaculated: 'Warwick?
When these people talk about Christian Science they do as Mrs. Fuller did: they do not use their own language, but the book's; they pour out the book's showy incoherences, and leave you to find out later that they were not originating, but merely quoting; they seem to know the volume by heart, and to revere it as they would a Bible another Bible, perhaps I ought to say.
'Yes, sir, said Mr Wegg, careful to leave all the eagerness to him. 'I see no difficulty if you wish it. You are provided with the needful implement a book, sir? 'Bought him at a sale, said Mr Boffin. 'Eight wollumes. Red and gold. Purple ribbon in every wollume, to keep the place where you leave off. Do you know him? 'The book's name, sir? inquired Silas.
Well, boy, dat book's all de colonel ever reads when he's vacationin', an' dat's whut he's doin' now jest vacationin'. "When we start away dis mawnin' he say to me, the colonel did: 'Now, Shag, I don't want t' be boddered wif nuffin'. I don't want t' read no papers. I don't want t' heah 'bout no battles, murder an' sudden deaths.
Both the beginning and the middle and the end exhibit the strong and the weak points of the novelist. The defects were dwelt upon in the Revue de Paris, soon after the book's first part came out, in probably the longest critical article devoted to any single one of Balzac's writings.
Two of the Sonnets in the book were addressed to Ellen Terry, one as "Portia," the other as "Henrietta Maria"; and these partly account for the book's popularity, for Miss Terry was delighted with them and praised the book and its author to the skies.
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