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"My father said to me again and again," Léon Daudet tells us, "I should like, after I have accomplished my task, to set myself up as a merchant of happiness. My reward would be in my success!" This longing, so entirely characteristic of the man, is manifest everywhere in his earlier work, only rarely in the great novels; unfortunately the great novels were his "task."
The rural and domestic Life of Germany with characteristic sketches of its cities and scenery, collected in a general tour, and during a residence in the country in the years 1840, 1841 and 1842. La vie rurale et privée de l'Allemagne, suivie d'esquisses caractéristiques de ses villes et de ses paysages, etc., par WILLIAM HOWITT; in-8.
In "Numa Roumestan" the satire is still less sympathetic and less good-natured. Numa is utterly detestable. He is a visionary; we readily forgive such a weakness, and we are amused by this characteristic trait of the south in Bompard and Tartarin. These two are visionaries and liars; they are cowards too, boastful and conceited. But they have never had the happiness of others in their hands.
1 12: coquin de sort: a characteristic Southern oath, lit. For the construction cf. coquin de lièvre 4 24, diable d'homme 9 3. Engl. "rascal of a man," Latin scelus viri; "the city New York," "the city of New York." 1 17: rien que: 'nothing but'; i.e. il n'y avait rien que.
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