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In the moral order as in the natural order all abuses must be paid for; fruits forced in a hot-house are produced at the tree's expense and often at the sacrifice of the goodness of its product. La Quintinie killed the orange-trees to give Louis XIV. a bunch of flowers every day at all seasons. So it is with intellects. The strain upon adolescent brains discounts their future.
The fervor of youth has a certain purifying power to redeem from offense matter, even though over-frankly treated, which becomes disagreeable in cold analysis, however sober the wording, and clear and admirable the moral pointed. Mademoiselle La Quintinie, which appeared in 1863, was suggested by M. Octave Feuillet's Sibille.
There is in me an element of the ecclesiastical that people don't know. We shall talk about that better than we can write of it. I shall see you in Paris in December, but in Paris one is disturbed by others. I wish you three hundred performances for Mademoiselle La Quintinie. But you will have a lot of bother with the Odeon. It is an institution where I suffered horribly last winter.
I shall not go to Paris until after a month's time to put on Mademoiselle La Quintinie. Where shall you be? CCXXXIX. TO GEORGE SAND Monday night, 28 October, 1872 You have guessed rightly, dear master, that I had an increase of sorrow, and you have written me a very tender, good letter, thanks; I embrace you even more warmly than usual. Although expected, the death of poor Theo has distressed me.
Levy, however, is not, but you are angry with him. I should like to talk of all that with you; will you come? or wait until my trip to Paris? But when shall I go? I don't know. I am a little afraid of bronchitis in the winter, and I do not leave home unless I absolutely have to for business reasons. I don't think that they will play Mademoiselle La Quintinie.
But even those who prefer the dénoûment of George Sand's novel to that of M. Feuillet's will not rank Mademoiselle La Quintinie very high among the author's productions. It is colorless, and artistically weak, however controversially strong. Madame Sand, according to her own reckoning in 1869, had made at least £40,000 by her writings. Out of this she had saved no fortune.
Meanwhile, I am keeping on with my reading and note-taking. As I have in the le Sexe faible a rather ridiculous general, I am not without forebodings. What a fine thing is Censorship! Axiom: All governments curse literature, power does not like another power. When they forbade the playing of Mademoiselle La Quintinie, you were too stoical, dear master, or too indifferent.
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