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Updated: June 18, 2025
The return to the castle on the mount was prosperous, and not marked by any particular adventure. He soon left the desert behind, and found himself at the foot of Mount Massis.
He told him that the wonder-stone lay concealed in a stone castle about midway up Mount Massis; but that the enterprise required great patience, perseverance, and skill. With such words as these he brought his speech to a close, and left Jalaladdeen to his own reflections.
She gazed upon him with an affectionate smile; and as he drew near, she descended the steps of her throne, extended to him the golden sceptre, and touched him with the point of it. "Hast thou the wonder-stone from Mount Massis?" said she. Jalaladdeen was too confused to reply to her; but the gem suspended from his neck assured her as to his identity. "That is it," said she, in continuation.
"Fool, fool, young idle fool! think of the stone of Mount Massis, otherwise thou canst not be my husband." After these words she limped back again, gathered herself up as before, and the lid of the urn closed once more of itself.
From the conception of the work, with its general notes on its nature, its movement, its physiology, its determination, its first sketches of the personages, the milieu he was an ardent adherent of Taine in this particular the occupations of the characters, the summary plan with the accumulated details, thence to the writing, the entire method is exposed in this ingenious and entertaining book of Massis.
Certainly Zola gave the world a number of volumes, and, if the writing was not always "strong" his style is usually mediocre the subjects were often too strong for polite nostrils. As Henri Massis, the author of an interesting book, How Zola Composed His Novels, says, "he founded his work on a theory which is the most singular of mistakes."
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