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In the purely orchestral parts of the work the composer seems to have escaped from convention altogether, and has written music instinct with weird suggestion and unearthly force. Puccini's next opera, 'Edgar' , was a failure, but in 'Manon Lescaut' he once more achieved success. His treatment of the Abbé Prévost's romance, as may well be imagined, differs in toto from that of Massenet.
I went, but it was to add to my calamities only; for, independently of my visit producing not the smallest good effect, I, by my absence, allowed Lescaut time for discussion with his sister, during which he did not fail to inspire her with the most horrible resolutions.
I might have told you of the beginning of this liaison in a few lines, but I wanted you to see every step by which we came, I to agree to whatever Marguerite wished, Marguerite to be unable to live apart from me. It was the day after the evening when she came to see me that I sent her Manon Lescaut. From that time, seeing that I could not change my mistress's life, I changed my own.
Like Montespan, also a courtesan of high order, she often went in these dark days to cast a loving look upon the solitary park in the maze of the Trianon. Yet she was particularly happy at Lucienne. I have compared her to Manon Lescaut, and I believe her to have been also a sister to Ganesin. All three were destroyed by passion.
She ran forth to him and added in a low tone: "You know that Madame Roussillon has hidden all the novels from me." She was fumbling to get something out of the loose front of her dress. "Well, just take a glance at this, will you?" and she showed him a little leather bound volume, much cracked along the hinges of the back. It was Manon Lescaut, that dreadful romance by the famous Abbe Prevost.
The second interpretation seemed the more probable, for the first would have been an impertinent piece of plain speaking which Marguerite, whatever her opinion of herself, would never have accepted. I went out again, and thought no more of the book until at night, when I was going to bed. Manon Lescaut is a touching story.
In every case they derive a benefit from their labours by living at the expense of their pupils; and, in whatever point of view it is considered, the follies of the rich are a bountiful source of revenue to the humbler classes. "These thoughts restored me a little to my spirits and to my reason. I determined first to consult M. Lescaut, the brother of Manon.
Manon Lescaut, the passionate and beautiful romance of l'Abbé Prévost, is a very small book, concerned, like La Princesse de Clèves, with two characters only the lovers, whose varying fortunes make up the whole action of the tale. Precisely the same description applies to the subtle and brilliant Adolphe of Benjamin Constant, produced in the early years of the nineteenth century.
Boccaccio, Decameron; Chaucer, Canterbury Tales. Shakespeare; Lope de Vega; Calderon. Defoe, Robinson Crusoe; Le Sage, Gil Blas. Marivaux, Marianne; Prévost, Manon Lescaut. Richardson, Clarissa; Goethe, Werther. Goethe, Faust; Wordsworth, Michael, &c.. Victor Hugo, Légende des Siècles. There are English translations of the greater number of these.
'Wretch! muttered I to myself, 'dearly shall G M pay for this! "'As to your escape, continued Lescaut, 'it will not be so easy as you imagine.
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