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She has no mother, and I am responsible to Colonel Tempest and to my own conscience for her welfare. She will soon be twenty years of age though I am sure nobody would believe it, to look at her and it is time that her settlement in life should, at all events, be thought of. But now, look how things turn out! Lord Garle than whom a better parti could not be wished has fallen in love with her.
In the same way, Edward Rochester, if we take him simply as a cultured and travelled country gentleman, who was a magnate and great parti in his county, is barely within the range of possibility. As St. John Rivers is a walking contradictory of a diabolic saint, so Edward Rochester is a violent specimen of the heroic ruffian.
And to be, de parti pris, an Impressionist without these! O Velasquez! Nor is literature quite free from a like reproach in her own things. An author, here and there, will make as though he had a word worth hearing nay, worth over-hearing a word that seeks to withdraw even while it is uttered; and yet what it seems to dissemble is all too probably a platitude.
In her John Blake perceived the exact parti whom he desired for a wife. It is not necessary to follow the pitiful story to its inevitable end, one, happily, more common at that time than it is to-day. Mr. Blake played the earnest, ardent lover, and on all occasions proclaimed his own unworthiness at the top of his loud voice.
It is evident, however, that they were definitely written for his perusal, and it is equally clear that Anne's replies were inspired, and sometimes, if not always, drafted by him. This practice continued until the death of Anne Wortley in March, 1710. Yet there seems to have been no reason for this camouflage. In 1709 Lady Mary was twenty years of age, and Montagu was a very eligible parti.
"I am speaking of the young men calling so much upon the young ladies," the duchess explained. "But surely in England," said Mrs. Westgate, "the young ladies don't call upon the young men?" "Some of them do almost!" Lady Pimlico declared. "What the young men are a great parti." "Bessie, you must make a note of that," said Mrs. Westgate. "My sister," she added, "is a model traveler.
He had visited my grandfather's mine, and that of Miss Penrhys, and was astounded; had said of me that I wanted but a title to be as brilliant a parti as any in Europe.
Others, Vaublanc for example, thought there was more show than substance. Here and there the text is very difficult to decipher, but the line "Parti pour l'école de Paris, le 30 Octobre 1784" is perfectly legible. Las Cases, in the Mémorial, Vol. Be that as it may, Bonaparte's defiant scorn and habits of solitary study grew stronger together.
"Tell the people you are an excellent preacher," was the advice of an old and learned divine to a younger and less experienced one "tell them so every morning, and every noon, and every evening, and at last they will begin to believe it." So thought I. I shall impress upon the Callonbys that I am a most unexceptionable "parti."
But would you know man, independently of modes, read La Rochefoucault, who, I am afraid, paints him very exactly. Give the inclosed to Abbe Guasco, of whom you make good use, to go about with you, and see things. Between you and me, he has more knowledge than parts. 'Mais un habile homme sait tirer parti de tout', and everybody is good for something.
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