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...in which places I saw and practised such villainy as is abominable to declare. Robert Greene. Par
His frequent days of truancy he spent in these idle rambles, or in drifting down the river. Notwithstanding his lack of application to study, he had succeeded in completing the course of the lycée. The boy was too young, too delicate, and too sensitive to be able to endure the mental suffering and humiliation to which he was subjected at the hands of the bullies of this school.
Continuing Daudet says: "Only one who was raised in southern France, or knows it thoroughly, can appreciate how frequently the Tartarin type is to be met there, and how under the generous sun of Tarascon, which warms and electrifies, the natural drollery of mind and imagination is led astray into monstrous exaggerations, in form and dimension as various as bottle gourds."
Ceux qui se font une sorte d'esthétique de l'indifférence absolue ne sont point those of which the aesthetics seems to be in absolute indifference.
"I believe that I shall carry away with me," he said, "many curious observations on my race, its virtues, its faults". And in speaking of the "Lettres de mon moulin," the only volume of his works in which his southern nature is given free rein, he says many years after its publication, after he had written his best novels, "That is still my favorite book."
70 10 lentisques: 'mastic trees, small trees growing in the Mediterranean countries, producing a resin which is used in the manufacture of paints. 70 14 champoreau: a warm drink, coffee with a copious admixture of brandy, popular among the Europeans in Africa. 70 21 une cour de caravansérail: cf. note to 1 5. A caravansary is a building for the lodging of caravans.
The war awakened in our sensitive poet a seriousness of purpose which harmonized but little with his native genius. Among his friends he never lost his old-time buoyant gaiety; but his works from now on show only a trace of it. The charming "Belle-Nivernaise" , a few "tarasconades," a gleam here and there in all his works, remind us of our old friend and plead for our sympathy with the new.
I felt that the English government could not with property say any thing on the subject to the government of France; for a like reason I could not, in my place in parlement, advert to it; but I thought that, when I was standing as an individual on the hustings before my constituents, I might use the liberty of speech belonging to the occasion, in order to draw public attention to proceedings which I think it would be for the honour of France to put an end to; and if the public discussion which my speech produced shall have the effect of putting an end to a thousand part of the human misery which I dwelt upon, I am sure M. Guizot will forgive me for saying that I should not think that result too dearly purchased by giving offence to the oldest and dearest friend I may have in the world.
Don Quixote was ever tireless and fearless, while Sancho Panza disliked hard knocks and preferred a slothful life of ease and plenty to the glorious career of privations which was the lot of the knight errant. Tartarin de Tarascon combined the qualities of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza; hence a terrible internal conflict of which we shall read in chapter vi. 10 14 s'arracher aux: cf. note to 4 24.
O, how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day, Which now shows all the beauty of the sun And by and by a cloud takes all away!
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