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The fires died sullenly, deserted except for an occasional recumbent figure. Peebles had disappeared; Dake lay in his rags on the ground; Runnel rocked slowly, like a pendulum, in his ceaseless pain. "Tramping to the devil!" he added. "What started you?" French Janin asked. "Jail," Harry Baggs answered.
The silence that followed the song was sharply broken by a thin querulous question; a tenuous bent figure stumbled across the open. "Who's singing?" he demanded. "That's French Janin," Peebles told Harry Baggs; "he's blind." "I am," the latter responded "Harry Baggs."
Why should Noah be Janus when he was in that state? 'He he he! you must know that in Lasan akhades wine is janin. 'In Armenian, kini, said I; 'in Welsh, gwin; Latin, vinum; but do you think that Janus and janin are one? 'Do I think? Don't the commentators say so? Does not Master Leo Abarbenel say so in his Dialogues of Divine Love'?
They saw that this lean, raucous gutter-girl had within her gifts which would increase until she would be first of all actresses on the French stage. Janin wrote some lines which explain the secret of her greatness: All the talent in the world, especially when continually applied to the same dramatic works, will not satisfy continually the hearer.
Of late it has been remarked, that Jules Janin is less imperious in his criticisms than he was formerly. He has been very severely reviewed by Dumas and Roqueplan, and has behaved more wisely since. We have not sketched Jules Janin as a great man, but as a man who makes great pretensions, and who has long been acknowledged, in Paris and France, as the prince of critics.
There was a long silence and then he spoke again with a new energy: "I'm done, but you haven't started. You're bigger than ever I was; you'll go on and on. I, Janin, will train you; when you sing the great roles I'll sit in a box, wear diamond studs. Afterward, as we roll in a carriage down the Grandes Boulevards, the people in front of the cafes will applaud; the voice is appreciated in Paris."
He was swept to his feet by a great wave of feeling; with his head back, he sent the resonant volume of his tones toward the stars. Baggs stopped suddenly; stillness once more flooded the plowed hill and he raised imploring arms to the sky in a gust of longing. "I want to sing!" he cried. "That's all to sing." Janin was brighter in the morning. "You must have some exercises," he told the boy.
"Can't you stop that for a day?" Harry Baggs demanded desperately. "Can't you?" He watched with bitter rebellion the inevitable slackening of the other's being, the obfuscation of his mind. Janin hung over the fence, with hardly more semblance of life than an incredibly tattered and empty garment. "Come on, you old fool!"
Then added the doctor, pleasantly, and with that wonderful insight into our complex humanity in which physicians excel poets, and in which Parisian physicians are not excelled by any physicians in the world: "Can't you think of any bit of good news that 'M. Thiers raves about your son's last poem! that 'it is a question among the Academicians between him and Jules Janin' or that 'the beautiful Duchesse de has been placed in a lunatic asylum because she has gone mad for love of a certain young Red Republican whose name begins with R. can't you think of any bit of similar good news?
When, a half hour later, I went down with my manuscript, I found gathered together in Colonel Claudel's office, he being away, the major-general, General Janin, Colonel Dupont, and Lieutenant-Colonel Renouard. Fearing that I would not succeed in giving the desired impression, General Pellé had himself prepared a proposed communiqué. I read what I had just done. It was found to be too moderate.
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