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Updated: June 15, 2025
It should, of course, be read before Splendeurs et Miseres des Courtisanes, which is avowedly its second part, a small piece of Eve et David serving as the link between them. But it is almost sufficient by and to itself.
Her mind was full of a hundred miseres d'atelier, of imaginary enemies and intrigues; one minute she was all hope, the next all fear; and she turned sick when she thought of Taranne's letter. What had she been entangling herself for? she whose whole life and soul belonged to art and ambition! This comradeship, begun as a caprice, an adventure, was becoming too serious.
Madame Garcia moved heavily about the kitchen, putting the plantains in a cool spot and punctuating her foot-steps with sundry "Mon Dieux" and "Miseres." "Dose cotton!" ejaculated Mr. Baptiste, at last. "Ah, mon Dieu!" groaned Madame Garcia, rolling her eyes heavenwards. "Hit will drive de fruit away!" he continued. "Misere!" said Madame Garcia "Hit will." "Oui, out," said Madame Garcia.
There was ruffianism and misery among the masses of Europe; unbelief and artificiality among the upper classes; churches and monasteries defiled, cities sacked, farmsteads plundered and ruinate, and all the wretchedness which Callot has immortalised for a warning to evil rulers in his Miseres de la Guerre. The world was all gone wrong: but as for setting it right again who could do that?
We cannot afford to have the progress of the country arrested by such misères. The alarmists succeeded in bringing down the price of our stocks a few days ago. By the bye, last night was fixed upon by my anonymous correspondents for my own assassination. To Sir Charles Wood. Calcutta, June 22nd, 1862. I have had, this week, a very painful matter to deal with.
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