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You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org - - -Title: My Miscellanies, Vol. 1 (of 2) - -Author: Wilkie Collins - -Release Date: October 5, 2013 [EBook #43893] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MY MISCELLANIES, VOL. 1 (OF 2) *** - - - - -Produced by Melissa McDaniel and the Online Distributed -Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was -produced from images generously made available by The -Internet Archive) - - - - - - -</pre> - +<div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 43893 ***</div> <div class="tnbox"> <p class="center"><b>Transcriber's Note:</b></p> @@ -3202,7 +3164,7 @@ just entered by. Another leads into a bed-chamber of the same size as the drawing-room, just as brightly and neatly furnished, with a window that looks out on the everlasting gaiety and bustle of the Champs -Elysées. The third door leads into a dressing-room +Elysées. The third door leads into a dressing-room half the size of the drawing-room, and having a fourth door which opens into a kitchen half the size of the dressing-room, but of course possessing a fifth @@ -3358,8 +3320,8 @@ when she was the bride of Hippolyte-senior, and was thinking of following him into the Porter's Lodge. "Ah! my dear sir," she says when I condole with her, "if we do get a little money sometimes in our -way of life, we don't earn it too easily. Aïe! Aïe! -Aïe! I should like a good sleep: I should like to +way of life, we don't earn it too easily. Aïe! Aïe! +Aïe! I should like a good sleep: I should like to be as fat as my portrait again!"</p> <p>The same friendly relations—arising entirely, let @@ -3381,7 +3343,7 @@ chirping state of cheerfulness in consequence. She shudders and makes faces at my physic-bottles; entreats me to throw them away, to let her put me to bed, and administer A Light Tea to begin with, -and A Broth to follow (un Thé léger et un Bouillon). +and A Broth to follow (un Thé léger et un Bouillon). If I will only stick to these remedies, she will have them ready, if necessary, every hour in the day, and will guarantee my immediate restoration to health @@ -3472,7 +3434,7 @@ alas! how could we resist it? It is so beautiful—it brightens the room so—it gives us such a noble appearance. And, then, it is also a property—something to leave to our children—in short, a pardonable extravagance. -Aïe! I am shaking all over again; I +Aïe! I am shaking all over again; I can say no more!" <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_104" id="Page_104">104</a></span></p> @@ -3517,7 +3479,7 @@ of medical help on my part, even to the modest offering of one small pill. An hour or two later, I descend to the lodge again to see how she is. She has been persuaded to go to bed; is receiving, in -bed, a levée of friends; is answering, in the same +bed, a levée of friends; is answering, in the same interesting situation, the questions of all the visitors of the day, relating to all the lodgers in the house; has begun a fresh potful of the light tea; is still @@ -3558,7 +3520,7 @@ itself to my own peculiar view.</p> <p>As for the great Parisian world outside, my experience of it is bounded by the prospect I obtain of -the Champs Elysées from my bed-room window. +the Champs Elysées from my bed-room window. Fashionable Paris spins and prances by me every afternoon, in all its glory; but what interest have healthy princes and counts and blood-horses, and @@ -3848,7 +3810,7 @@ it; and that object was—my landlady, Mrs. Glutch.</p> <p>Behold me then, now, no longer a free agent; no longer a fanciful invalid with caprices to confide to the ear of the patient reader. My health is no better -in Smeary Street than it was in the Champs Elysées; +in Smeary Street than it was in the Champs Elysées; I take as much medicine in London as I took in Paris; but my character is altered in spite of myself, and the form and colour of my present fragment of @@ -5379,7 +5341,7 @@ soon as the alarm had been dissipated, was, what this extraordinary burlesque of an invasion could possibly mean. It was asserted, in some quarters, that the fourteen hundred Frenchmen had been recruited -from those insurgents of La Vendée who had enlisted +from those insurgents of La Vendée who had enlisted in the service of the Republic, who could not be trusted at home, and who were therefore despatched on the first desperate service that might @@ -6079,7 +6041,7 @@ original serial form, but in its republished form, when it appealed from the Unknown to the Known Public. Clearly, the moral obstacle was not the obstacle which militated against the success of Alexandre -Dumas and Eugène Sue.</p> +Dumas and Eugène Sue.</p> <p>What was it, then? Plainly this, as I believe. The Unknown Public is, in a literary sense, hardly @@ -6265,11 +6227,11 @@ reader.</p> <p>She was followed by four minor winds, blowing dead in our teeth—by my married daughter in Pink -Moiré Antique; by my own Julia (single) in Violet +Moiré Antique; by my own Julia (single) in Violet <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_196" id="Page_196">196</a></span> Tulle Illusion; by my own Emily (single) in white -lace over glacé silk; by my own Charlotte (single) -in blue gauze over glacé silk. The four minor winds, +lace over glacé silk; by my own Charlotte (single) +in blue gauze over glacé silk. The four minor winds, and the majestic maternal Boreas, entirely filled the room, and overflowed on to the dining-table. It was a grand sight. My son-in-law and I—a pair of mere @@ -6287,7 +6249,7 @@ through my daughters. My son-in-law, young, innocent, and of secondary position in the family, was not so fortunate. I left him helpless, looking round the corner of his mother-in-law's claret-coloured -velvet, with one of his legs lost in his wife's Moiré +velvet, with one of his legs lost in his wife's Moiré Antique. There is every reason to suppose that he never extricated himself; for when we got into the carriages he was not to be found; and, when ultimately @@ -6300,7 +6262,7 @@ absence, my son-in-law caught it.</p> <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_197" id="Page_197">197</a></span> wife and her married daughter in one, and I, myself, on the box—the front seat being very properly -wanted for the velvet and the Moiré Antique. In +wanted for the velvet and the Moiré Antique. In the second carriage were my three girls—crushed, as they indignantly informed me, crushed out of all shape (didn't I tell you, just now, how plump one of @@ -6337,7 +6299,7 @@ again—no, not one of them!</p> <p>The Tulle Illusion, was illusion no longer. My daughter's gorgeous substratum of Gros de Naples bulged through it in half a dozen places. The Pink -Moiré Antique was torn into a draggle-tailed pink +Moiré Antique was torn into a draggle-tailed pink train. The white lace was in tatters, and the blue gauze was in shreds.</p> @@ -6553,7 +6515,7 @@ strength and in its weakness. Men, whose critical judgment is widely and worthily respected, have declared that he is the deepest and truest observer of human nature whom France has produced since the -time of Molière. Unquestionably, he ranks as one +time of Molière. Unquestionably, he ranks as one of the few great geniuses who appear by ones and twos, in century after century of authorship, and who leave their mark ineffaceably on the literature of @@ -6566,15 +6528,15 @@ England. Among all the readers—a large class in these islands—who are, from various causes, unaccustomed to study French literature in its native language, there are probably very many who have never -even heard of the name of <span class="smcap">Honoré de Balzac</span>.</p> +even heard of the name of <span class="smcap">Honoré de Balzac</span>.</p> <p>Unaccountable as it may appear at first sight, the -reason why the illustrious author of Eugénie Grandet, -Le Père Goriot, and La Recherche de l'Absolu, happens +reason why the illustrious author of Eugénie Grandet, +Le Père Goriot, and La Recherche de l'Absolu, happens to be so little known to the general public of England is, on the surface of it, easy enough to discover. Balzac is little known, because he has been -little translated. An English version of Eugénie +little translated. An English version of Eugénie Grandet was advertised, lately, as one of a cheap series of novels. And the present writer has some indistinct recollection of meeting, many years since, @@ -6585,7 +6547,7 @@ of ninety-seven fictions, long and short, which proceeded from the same fertile pen, has been offered to our own readers in our own language. Immense help has been given in this country to the reputations -of Alexandre Dumas, Victor Hugo, and Eugène +of Alexandre Dumas, Victor Hugo, and Eugène Sue: no help whatever, or next to none, has been given to Balzac—although he is regarded in France <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_207" id="Page_207">207</a></span> @@ -6657,7 +6619,7 @@ accusation of being needlessly and even horribly repulsive. But no objections of this sort apply to the majority of the works which he produced when he was in the prime of his life and his faculties. The -conception of the character of "Eugénie Grandet" is +conception of the character of "Eugénie Grandet" is one of the purest, tenderest, and most beautiful things in the whole range of fiction; and the execution of it is even worthy of the idea. If the translation @@ -6672,18 +6634,18 @@ literary achievement in which a new and an imperishable character (the exquisitely beautiful character of the wife) has been added to the great gallery of fiction—remains still unknown to the -general public of England. "Le Père Goriot"—which, +general public of England. "Le Père Goriot"—which, though it unveils some of the hidden corruptions <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_210" id="Page_210">210</a></span> of Parisian life, unveils them nobly in the interests of that highest morality belonging to no one -nation and no one sect—"Le Père Goriot," which +nation and no one sect—"Le Père Goriot," which stands first and foremost among all the writer's works, which has drawn the tears of thousands from the purest sources, has its appeal still left to make to the sympathies of English readers. Other shorter -stories, scattered about the "Scènes de la Vie Privée," -the "Scènes de la Vie de Province," and the "Scènes +stories, scattered about the "Scènes de la Vie Privée," +the "Scènes de la Vie de Province," and the "Scènes de la Vie Parisienne," are as completely unknown to a certain circle of readers in this country, and as unquestionably deserve careful and competent translation, @@ -6725,7 +6687,7 @@ ever been published for the amusement and bewilderment of the reading world.</p> <p>The title of this singular work is, "Portrait Intime -De Balzac: sa Vie, son Humeur et son Caractère. +De Balzac: sa Vie, son Humeur et son Caractère. Par Edmond Werdet, son ancien Libraire-Editeur." Before, however, we allow Monsieur Werdet to relate his own personal experience of the celebrated writer, @@ -6739,7 +6701,7 @@ by Monsieur Werdet in the form of an episode, and are principally derived, on his part, from information afforded by the author's sister.</p> -<p class="p2">Honoré de Balzac was born in the city of Tours, +<p class="p2">Honoré de Balzac was born in the city of Tours, on the sixteenth of May, seventeen hundred and ninety-nine. His parents were people of rank and position in the world. His father held a legal appointment @@ -6747,7 +6709,7 @@ in the council-chamber of Louis the sixteenth. His mother was the daughter of one of the directors of the public hospitals of Paris. She was much younger than her husband, and brought him a -rich dowry. Honoré was her first-born; and he retained +rich dowry. Honoré was her first-born; and he retained throughout life his first feeling of childish reverence for his mother. That mother suffered the unspeakable affliction of seeing her illustrious son @@ -6770,7 +6732,7 @@ the worse produced in the pecuniary circumstances of the family by the convulsion of the Revolution.</p> <p>At the age of seven years Balzac was sent to the -college of Vendôme; and for seven years more there +college of Vendôme; and for seven years more there he remained. This period of his life was never a pleasant one in his remembrance. The reduced circumstances of his family exposed him to much sordid @@ -6808,7 +6770,7 @@ was exactly the species of teaching from which the essentially original mind of Balzac recoiled in disgust. All that he felt and did at this period has been carefully reproduced by his own pen in the -earlier pages of "Le Lys dans la Vallée."</p> +earlier pages of "Le Lys dans la Vallée."</p> <p>Badly as he got on at school, he managed to imbibe a sufficient quantity of conventional learning to @@ -6821,7 +6783,7 @@ office in the capacity of clerk. There were two other clerks to keep him company, who hated the drudgery of the law as heartily as he hated it himself. One of them was the future author of "The Mysteries of -Paris," Eugène Sue; the other was the famous critic, +Paris," Eugène Sue; the other was the famous critic, Jules Janin.</p> <p>After he had been engaged in this office, and in @@ -6829,12 +6791,12 @@ another, for more than three years, a legal friend, <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_215" id="Page_215">215</a></span> who was under great obligations to Balzac the father, offered to give up his business as a notary to Balzac -the son. To the great scandal of the family, Honoré +the son. To the great scandal of the family, Honoré resolutely refused the offer—for the one sufficient reason that he had determined to be the greatest writer in France. His relations began by laughing at him, and ended by growing angry with him. But -nothing moved Honoré. His vanity was of the calm, +nothing moved Honoré. His vanity was of the calm, settled sort; and his own conviction that his business in life was simply to be a famous man, proved too strong to be shaken by anybody.</p> @@ -6850,7 +6812,7 @@ No resource was now left him but to retire to a small country house in the neighbourhood of Paris, which he had purchased in his prosperous days, and to live there as well as might be on the wreck of his lost -fortune. Honoré, sticking fast to the hopeless business +fortune. Honoré, sticking fast to the hopeless business of becoming a great man, was, by his own desire, left alone in a Paris garret, with an allowance of five pounds English a month, which was all the @@ -6929,7 +6891,7 @@ proud to acknowledge them, so long as they failed to satisfy his own conception of what his own powers could accomplish. These first efforts—now included in the Belgian editions of his collected works, and -comprising among them two stories, "Jane la Pâle" +comprising among them two stories, "Jane la Pâle" and "Le Vicaire des Ardennes," which show unquestionable dawnings of the genius of a great writer—were originally published by the lower and more @@ -7194,7 +7156,7 @@ cheerfully locked up the six bank notes in his strong-box. Werdet, as cheerfully, retired with a written agreement in his empty pocket-book, authorising him to publish the second edition of "Le -Médecin de Campagne"—hardly, it may be remarked +Médecin de Campagne"—hardly, it may be remarked in parenthesis, one of the best to select of the novels of Balzac.</p> @@ -7202,7 +7164,7 @@ of Balzac.</p> <p>Once started in business as the happy proprietor and hopeful publisher of the second edition of "Le -Médecin de Campagne," Monsieur Werdet was too +Médecin de Campagne," Monsieur Werdet was too wise a man not to avail himself of the only certain means of success in modern times. He puffed magnificently. <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_227" id="Page_227">227</a></span> @@ -7213,7 +7175,7 @@ wonderstruck reader had never met with before. The result, aided by Balzac's celebrity, was a phenomenon in the commercial history of French literature, at that time. Every copy of the second -edition of "Le Médecin de Campagne" was sold in +edition of "Le Médecin de Campagne" was sold in eight days.</p> <p>This success established Monsieur Werdet's reputation. @@ -7442,7 +7404,7 @@ of course.</p> <p>At the outset, however, the posture of affairs looked encouragingly enough. On its completion in the -Revue de Paris, "Le Lys dans la Vallée" was republished +Revue de Paris, "Le Lys dans la Vallée" was republished by Monsieur Werdet, who had secured his interest in the work by a timely advance of six thousand francs. Of this novel (the most highly @@ -7452,7 +7414,7 @@ hundred copies of the first edition were left unsold within two hours after its publication. This unparalleled success kept Monsieur Werdet's head above water, and encouraged him to hope great things -from the next novel ("Séraphita"), which was also +from the next novel ("Séraphita"), which was also begun, periodically, in the Revue de Paris. Before it was finished, however, Balzac and the editor of the Review quarrelled. The long-suffering publisher @@ -7489,13 +7451,13 @@ as far as Vienna already; and he coolly announced his intention of travelling after it to the Austrian capital.</p> -<p>"And who is to finish 'Séraphita'?" inquired the +<p>"And who is to finish 'Séraphita'?" inquired the unhappy publisher. "My illustrious friend, you are ruining me!"</p> <p>"On the contrary," remarked Balzac, persuasively, "I am making your fortune. At Vienna, I shall -find my genius. At Vienna I shall finish 'Séraphita,' +find my genius. At Vienna I shall finish 'Séraphita,' and a new book besides. At Vienna, I shall meet with an angelic woman who admires me—she permits me to call her 'Carissima'—she has written to @@ -7529,7 +7491,7 @@ angel, and to coin money in the form of manuscripts.</p> <p>Eighteen days afterwards a perfumed letter from the author reached the publisher. He had caught his genius at Vienna; he had been magnificently -received by the aristocracy; he had finished "Séraphita," +received by the aristocracy; he had finished "Séraphita," and nearly completed the other book; his angelic friend, Carissima, already loved Werdet from Balzac's description of him; Balzac himself was @@ -7572,7 +7534,7 @@ and ten days later, Balzac returned, considerately bringing with him some charming little Viennese curiosities for his esteemed publisher. Monsieur Werdet expressed his acknowledgments; and then -politely inquired for the conclusion of "Séraphita," +politely inquired for the conclusion of "Séraphita," and the manuscript of the new novel.</p> <p>Not a single line of either had been committed to @@ -7584,7 +7546,7 @@ so far as Balzac was concerned) was not played out even yet. The publisher's reproaches seem at last to have awakened the author to something remotely resembling a sense of shame. He -promised that "Séraphita," which had been waiting +promised that "Séraphita," which had been waiting at press a whole year, should be finished in one night. There were just two sheets of sixteen pages each to write. They might have been completed either at @@ -7603,7 +7565,7 @@ were completed magnificently on the spot. By way of fit and proper climax to this ridiculous exhibition of literary quackery, it is only necessary to add, that, on Balzac's own confession, the two concluding sheets -of "Séraphita" had been mentally composed, and +of "Séraphita" had been mentally composed, and carefully committed to memory, two years before he affected to write them impromptu in the printer's office. It seems impossible to deny that the man @@ -7617,7 +7579,7 @@ are counted deservedly among the glories of French literature, and which were never more living and more lasting works than they are at this moment?</p> -<p>"Séraphita" was published three days after the +<p>"Séraphita" was published three days after the author's absurd exhibition of himself at the printer's office. In this novel, as in its predecessor—"Louis Lambert"—Balzac left his own firm ground of reality, @@ -7631,7 +7593,7 @@ condition; and the present writer, who has vainly attempted to read it through, desires to add, in this place, his own modest acknowledgment of inability to enlighten English readers in the smallest degree -on the subject of "Séraphita." Luckily for Monsieur +on the subject of "Séraphita." Luckily for Monsieur Werdet, the author's reputation stood so high with the public, that the book sold prodigiously, merely because it was a book by Balzac. The proceeds of @@ -7860,7 +7822,7 @@ of it. The strong constitution which he had remorselessly wasted for more than twenty years past, gave way at length, at the very time when his social chances looked most brightly. Three months after -his marriage, Honoré de Balzac died, after unspeakable +his marriage, Honoré de Balzac died, after unspeakable suffering, of disease of the heart. He was then but fifty years of age. His fond, proud, heart-broken old mother held him in her arms. On that loving @@ -8204,13 +8166,13 @@ my comfortable inn?</p> <p>The new dream-scene shows me evening again. I have joined another English traveller in taking a -vehicle that they call a calèche. It is a frowsy kind +vehicle that they call a calèche. It is a frowsy kind <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_260" id="Page_260">260</a></span> of sedan-chair on wheels, with greasy leather curtains and cushions. In the days of its prosperity and youth it might have been a state-coach, and might have carried Sir Robert Walpole to court, or the -Abbé Dubois to a supper with the Regent Orleans. +Abbé Dubois to a supper with the Regent Orleans. It is driven by a tall, cadaverous, ruffianly postilion, with his clothes all in rags, and without a spark of mercy for his miserable horses. It smells badly, @@ -8222,7 +8184,7 @@ and the night is setting in.</p> <p>The postmaster comes out to superintend the harnessing of fresh horses. He is tipsy, familiar, -and confidential; he first apostrophises the calèche +and confidential; he first apostrophises the calèche with contemptuous curses, then takes me mysteriously aside, and declares that the whole high road onward to our morning's destination swarms @@ -8232,7 +8194,7 @@ and leave local rogues entirely unmolested. I make this reflection, and ask the postmaster what he recommends us to do for the protection of our portmanteaus, which are tied on to the roof of the -calèche. He answers that unless we take special +calèche. He answers that unless we take special precautions, the thieves will get up behind, on our crazy foot-board, and will cut the trunks off the top <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_261" id="Page_261">261</a></span> @@ -8245,7 +8207,7 @@ his finger archly on the side of his nose, and gives an unintelligible order in the patois of the district. Before I have time to ask what he is going to do, every idler about the posthouse who can climb, scales -the summit of the calèche, and every idler who cannot, +the summit of the calèche, and every idler who cannot, stands roaring and gesticulating below with a lighted candle in his hand.</p> @@ -8277,7 +8239,7 @@ times at least, during the next stage, each of us is certain that he feels a tug, and pops his head agitatedly out of window, and sees absolutely nothing, and falls back again exhausted with excitement in a -corner of the calèche. All through the night this +corner of the calèche. All through the night this wear and tear of our nerves goes on; and all through the night (thanks, probably, to the ceaseless popping of our heads out of the windows) not the ghost of a @@ -8288,7 +8250,7 @@ hands stretched forth to rescue us from the incubus of our own baggage. The morning dawn finds us languid and haggard, with the accursed portmanteau strings dangling unregarded in the bottom of the -calèche. And this is taking our pleasure! This is +calèche. And this is taking our pleasure! This is an incident of travel in Austrian Italy! Faithful Black Mirror, accept my thanks. The warning of the two last dream-scenes that you have shown me @@ -8479,7 +8441,7 @@ forthwith. First, the muleteer calls him a Serpent—he never stirs an inch. Secondly, the muleteer calls him a Frog—he goes on imperturbably with his meditation. Thirdly, the muleteer roars out indignantly, -Ah sacré nom d'un Butor! (which, interpreted +Ah sacré nom d'un Butor! (which, interpreted by the help of my Anglo-French dictionary, means apparently, Ah, sacred name of a Muddlehead!); and at this extraordinary adjuration the @@ -9183,7 +9145,7 @@ AND CHARING CROSS.</p> <table summary="Cost of Ruined Garments" class="s09"> <tr> <td> </td> - <td class="tdr"><i>£.</i></td> + <td class="tdr"><i>£.</i></td> <td class="tdr"><i>s.</i></td> <td class="tdr"><i>d.</i></td> </tr> @@ -9194,7 +9156,7 @@ AND CHARING CROSS.</p> <td class="tdr">0</td> </tr> <tr> -<td>Repairing gathers of Moiré Antique</td> +<td>Repairing gathers of Moiré Antique</td> <td class="tdr">0</td> <td class="tdr">5</td> <td class="tdr">0</td> @@ -9240,7 +9202,7 @@ AND CHARING CROSS.</p> <p class="footnote"><a name="Footnote_5" id="Footnote_5" href="#FNanchor_5"><span class="label">[5]</span></a> This sentence has unfortunately proved prophetic. Cheap translations - of Le Père Goriot and La Recherche de l'Absolu were published + of Le Père Goriot and La Recherche de l'Absolu were published soon after the present article appeared in print, with extracts from the opinions here expressed on Balzac's writings appended by way of advertisement. Critical remonstrance in relation to such productions @@ -9251,384 +9213,7 @@ AND CHARING CROSS.</p> </div> - - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of Project Gutenberg's My Miscellanies, Vol. 1 (of 2), by Wilkie Collins - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MY MISCELLANIES, VOL. 1 (OF 2) *** - -***** This file should be named 43893-h.htm or 43893-h.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/4/3/8/9/43893/ - -Produced by Melissa McDaniel and the Online Distributed -Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was -produced from images generously made available by The -Internet Archive) - - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions -will be renamed. - -Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no -one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation -(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without -permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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