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He said the most flattering things about my Franconnette, and considered it an improvement upon L'Aveugle. 'Continue, he said, 'my good friend' and you will take a place in the brightest poetry of our epoch. In showing me over the shelves in the Library containing the works of the old poets, which are still read and admired, he said, 'Like them, you will never die."
Both 'wretches, as you are pleased to style them, are in a drab-lined first-class compartment in the middle of the centre coach. I saw Madame Cromwell looking at us through the window, and took off my hat to her. She bowed, and mentioned our presence to M. l'Aveugle. So you see they understand our game, and see that we have tumbled to theirs. Three A.B.'s to a clever woman and a wily blind man.
"A poet rediscovered by a poet!" said Lucien, reading the signature of the preface. "After Chenier had written those poems, he thought that he had written nothing worth publishing," added David. Then Lucien in his turn read aloud the fragment of an epic called L'Aveugle and two or three of the Elegies, till, when he came upon the line If they know not bliss, is there happiness on earth?
We will go down to meet it by that." "But Cospatric and his friends will most certainly go by the same train." She put her lips to my ear and whispered, and then we laughed, and I took paper and pen and wrote a long letter. She read over my shoulder. "Admirable. Monsieur l'Aveugle, your friends will either stay here and rave, or else start on a wild-goose chase across the mountains to Soller.
A fierce thrill of excitement ran through him as he did so. Everybody interpreted this announcement in one way it was a shift of Mme. de Bargeton's, meant to save the poet's self-love and to put the audience at ease. Lucien began with Le Malade, and the poem was received with a murmur of applause; but he followed it with L'Aveugle, which proved too great a strain upon the average intellect.
Multiply this by a million-fold and you have the Reign of Terror, the second chapter of the French Revolution. "Aimez les amis du peuple et l'enthousiasme pour la liberté, mais réservez l'aveugle soumission pour la loi," said Lafayette to the Federation of National Guards.
In some other countries the State would have taken the initiative and has done so, but we have our own ways of working out things, "l'aveugle et tatonnante infaillibilite de l'Angleterre," as some one has called it, in which the individual goes first, and makes trial of the land, and often experiences failure in the first attempts.
"A poet rediscovered by a poet!" said Lucien, reading the signature of the preface. "After Chenier had written those poems, he thought that he had written nothing worth publishing," added David. Then Lucien in his turn read aloud the fragment of an epic called L'Aveugle and two or three of the Elegies, till, when he came upon the line If they know not bliss, is there happiness on earth?
"I must inform you, in all humility, that I often cannot compose more than two or three lines a day. My five poems, L'Aveugle, Mes Souvenirs, Franconnette, Martha the Innocent, and Les Deux Jumeaux, have cost me ten years' work, and they only contain in all but 2,400 verses!... I cannot write poetry by command. I cannot be a prisoner while I compose.
A fierce thrill of excitement ran through him as he did so. Everybody interpreted this announcement in one way it was a shift of Mme. de Bargeton's, meant to save the poet's self-love and to put the audience at ease. Lucien began with Le Malade, and the poem was received with a murmur of applause; but he followed it with L'Aveugle, which proved too great a strain upon the average intellect.
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