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Updated: May 16, 2025
Never!"... Again Saltus demonstrates how completely he is master of the story-telling gift, how surely he possesses the power to compel breathless attention. "The Monster" is fiction, incredible, insane fiction. The monster is incest, in this instance inceste manqué because it doesn't come off. Leilah disappears and to put barriers between her and the man she loves becomes the bride of another.
In this latter case our theory would not necessarily be manque, but would certainly be seriously incomplete.
The morality of this step has been keenly discussed. The rank and file of the army seem to have regarded it as little less than desertion, and the predominance of personal motives in this important decision can scarcely be denied. His private aim in undertaking the Eastern Expedition, that of dazzling the imagination of the French people and of exhibiting the incapacity of the Directory, had been abundantly realized. His eastern enterprise had now shrunk to practical and prosaic dimensions, namely, the consolidation of French power in Egypt. Yet, as will appear in later chapters, he did not give up his oriental schemes; though at St. Helena he once oddly spoke of the Egyptian expedition as an "exhausted enterprise," it is clear that he worked hard to keep his colony. The career of Alexander had for him a charm that even the conquests of Cæsar could not rival; and at the height of his European triumphs, the hero of Austerlitz was heard to murmur: "J'ai manqué
But for Judas the whole show would have been manque." "Oh yes," said Jim. "Judas was inevitable. I'm not sure that Judas wasn't the greatest of the disciples and Jesus knew it. I'm not sure Judas wasn't the disciple Jesus loved." "Jesus certainly encouraged him in his Judas tricks," said Tanny. Jim grinned knowingly at Lilly. "Then it was a nasty combination.
The professed cook, it appeared, laboured under a little manque d'usage on two delicate points, for she very unexpectedly burst into her lady's boudoir just as she was dressing for dinner, and exclaimed, "Mistress, dear, what'll I do with the vail?" "The veil?" said the dame, in horror; "what veil?"
The little legends and the little theories have gone far enough. And had they gone no farther they would not have mattered much. They would at least have left Charlotte Brontë's genius to its own mystery. But her genius was the thing that irritated, the enigmatic, inexplicable thing. Talent in a woman you can understand, there's a formula for it tout talent de femme est un bonheur manqué.
We judge the direction of a development by its highest form, though that form may have been produced but once, and produced imperfectly. Now the highest product of the Metaphysical School was Crashaw, and Crashaw was a Shelley manque; he never reached the Promised Land, but he had fervid visions of it.
A member of the foreign diplomatic body in Sta. Marta had once passed a judgment upon him: "Barrios is a man of perfect honesty and even of some talent for war, mais il manque de tenue." An incidental but favourable mention of his name in Mr. Gould senior's long correspondence with his son had something to do with his appointment, too; but most of all undoubtedly his established political honesty.
Mackay good luck, with some little doubt of his success, but none of his intentions. I am come in my work to that point where a lady who works a stocking must count by threads, and bring the various loose ends of my story together. They are too many. February 21. But he is an able writer, and so much of his work is well said, that it will carry through what is manqué.
Fate has unfortunately denied him an opportunity of showing his talents in high command, but I have a firm persuasion that as a strategist he would have greatly distinguished himself. As a leader on the field of battle, on the other hand, he would not have been so much in his right place, from a manque d'habitude du commandement, he wanted the art d'enlever les troupes."
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