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Updated: June 10, 2025
Yes, Fifine protested with pouts and anger. She had seen him; she had seen him, only yesterday.
"She thinks no end of me." "Unless the puppy might worry Fifine." "The puppy wouldn't take any notice of that thing the old dog, I mean. Besides, she lives in her basket, doesn't she? You might keep the puppy in the stables and take him for walks whenever you can. He'll have a beautiful coat like his mother, and if he's half as clever as she is...!"
He had now swung Fifine twenty times, his eyes always fixed on the iron, drawing a deep breath with each blow, yet showing only two great drops of sweat trickling down from his temples. He counted: "Twenty-one, twenty-two, twenty-three " Calmly Fifine continued, like a noble lady dancing. "What a show-off!" jeeringly murmured Salted-Mouth, otherwise Drink-without-Thirst.
The poem is in fact Browning's Siris a chain of thoughts and feelings, reaching with no break in the chain, from a humble basis to the heights of speculation. But before all else Fifine at the Fair is a poem.
"Yes, again and again and again and by George have you?" "This," observed Clifford sadly, "is serious." For a moment Elliott would have laid hands on him, then he laughed from sheer helplessness. "Oh, go on, go on; let's see, there's Clemence and Marie Tellec and Cosette and Fifine, Colette, Marie Verdier " "All of whom are charming, most charming, but I never was serious "
In came Hofer and gave us a toast and a song, and then they called on me, and I gave them the old Lied, that thou hast so often played, and for a toast, 'Fifine. If Fifine had been there she would have been lying on my shoulder, but since I rescued her from the teasing of a big drum-major she has grown shy and doesn't like company; and though she would soon be a pet with most of our men, keeps her love for me alone, and would be a very charming companion if I had time to devote to her pretty ways. So you see Franz and Hofer are in France," says the old man, taking off his spectacles.
He is supremely important in the history of Browning's mind, for he is the first of that great series of the apologiæ of apparently evil men, on which the poet was to pour out so much of his imaginative wealth Djabal, Fra Lippo, Bishop Blougram, Sludge, Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau, and the hero of Fifine at the Fair.
Many of my readers must have guessed, by now, that he whom the students at the Travellers' Inn called "Bijou," and he who is now making desperate love to Fifine de Maistre, are identical. Just as the "boys" had said, "the Prince" was sure to break the spell, that fettered the life of the beautiful recluse.
Still she could not heed she did not care even when the rain came down and pitilessly beat upon her white face; she did not know when Fifine crept under the shawl which Hamish threw around her, and that the frightened little girl held to her tight with both arms around her waist, while the pioneer cat very discreetly nestled down in the basket on Josephine's back.
Then, too, Madame Coudert allowed them to stand behind the counter and help wait upon the customers. Moreover, there was Fifine, the cat, for Pierrette to play with, and the little raveled-out dog lived only two doors below; so they did not lack for entertainment.
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