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Updated: June 26, 2025
A minute or so later the Secretary approached the Grand Stand and announced in stentorian tones: "First Prize General Murger's Darling, Number 99". While behind him upon Zuleika, chosen of the Judges, sat and smiled Mr. John Robin Ross-Ellison, who lifted his voice and said: "Thanks No! This horse is mine and is named Zuleika."
Had I done so, the glamour must have fled: I should still have been but Loudon Dodd; whereas now I was a Latin Quarter student, Murger's successor, living in flesh and blood the life of one of those romances I had loved to read, to re-read, and to dream over, among the woods of Muskegon. At this time we were all a little Murger-mad in the Latin Quarter.
Quickly finding the desired page, he began to read aloud: 'Dear, had the world in its caprice Deigned to proclaim I know you both, Have recognised your plighted troth, Am sponsor for you; live in peace! He read to the end of the poem, and then looked up with an admiring smile. 'An ideal! exclaimed Peak. 'An ideal akin to Murger's and Musset's grisettes, who never existed.
It was impossible to weave a connected story from Murger's famous novel. Puccini's librettists attempted nothing of the kind. They took four scenes each complete in itself and put them before the audience without any pretence of a connecting thread of interest.
But the book-keeper is deusedly hard on trigger. Will you believe it? I asked him to advance me forty dollars, and he refused!" We parted excellent friends, and he continued to assure me of his gratitude, until the carriage stopped at my door. Years passed away. Henry Murger's promised novel was long coming to the "Revue des Deux Mondes."
They were both prodigies, but, though rivals, the fastest friends. After they had emerged from the École Normale they went and set up housekeeping together in an old house in the Quartier Latin; and as they were both poor as rats, the difficulties they had in keeping soul and body together recall the most picturesque and thrilling scenes in Murger's Vie de Bohème.
To rumours of General Murger's failing health and growing alcoholism Colonel Dearman listened with interest nay, satisfaction. Stories of seizures, strokes and "goes" of delirium tremens met with no rebuke nor contradiction from him and an air of leisured ease and unanxious peacefulness pervaded the Gungapur Fusiliers.
Shirley laughed outright and regretted that she did not have her kodak to take back to America some idea of their grotesque appearance, and she listened with amused interest as Jefferson explained that these men were notorious poseurs, aping the dress and manners of the old-time student as he flourished in the days of Randolph and Mimi and the other immortal characters of Murger's Bohemia.
On Captain John Robin Ross-Ellison's return from leave, Colonel Dearman told that officer of General Murger's twofold insult to Colonel Dearman's wife and to Colonel Dearman's Corps.
Shirley laughed outright and regretted that she did not have her kodak to take back to America some idea of their grotesque appearance, and she listened with amused interest as Jefferson explained that these men were notorious poseurs, aping the dress and manners of the old-time student as he flourished in the days of Randolph and Mimi and the other immortal characters of Murger's Bohemia.
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