Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-01-19
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many rivals.
THAT is what they have made the
peor child believe she would meet with
10 life. And as, after sll, this nonsense
las q noble side her young imagination
has been taken by it. Here is what /
have decided then. Oetavlus has con-
! dueted himself Ike fool, he shall pay
the penalty. 1t Is impossible that you
should present yourself IS the hus-
. band chosen what am I saying?) i'm
posed by the ferocioGs father that l am.
1t would be enough to destroy all
our projects, for yOa would no more
marry my daughter without her free
consent, than / would give her to you
against her will. I have recalled to
mind that story of the inhabitants OF l
do not know what town, who wished to
build bridge over I know still less what
river. At each attempt the water de-
strsyed and carried off the work begun.
Finally the Devil osme to see one Of tAe
! principal inhabitants Ct the town and
said: I will build the bridge Ia one
night, aud it will last two hundred
! wears, day for day, and 1t will cost you
only a trife. l shall have g mine the
first creature that shall pass over the
bridge. The one u whom the PROPOSE
ton was made referred it to the other
chiefs, aud the DEVILS proposition was
accepted. The morning OF the following
day they found magnificent bridge
thrswn across from one bank t.
the other. What did the chiefs Of
the town DO thea? ? They took
a cat, and, placing it at the entrance to
the bridge, pursued it and terrified it
with yells, so that it seud over tae other
side. The devil, taken in and duped,
! took possession Of the cat and grumbling-
Iy carried it of. PAternal authority is
/ this bridge built by the devil, it is Oc,a.
yius who will pass over it,
Henry made numerous objections, but
Mr. de Riessain removed them all, and
finished developing his ideas. Henry
ended by yielding, but only before q de-
/ termination which Mr.. de Riesssin an
! nouuced he would not change.
Here naturally ends the first fenil-
( Teton, - said to a friend who was read
/ ing over my shoulder.
Why how, cried he, have you then
q rich patrimony which you have hidden
( from me until now, are you sold to the
pow ers that be, or do you Join to your
| calling of writer some secret occupation,
that you write 10 that way
A little astOuished at this TRADE, l
begged nay friend to explain himself.
He seated himself by the firesice, oppo-
site to me, and held pretty much this
language to me
When you write novels, are you not
then, like the Others, paid Sd much by
the line, so much by the page, SO much
by the leaf?
Yes, certainly, why should 1 not
conform to the established usage on that
subject?
Conform to the established usage as
mach as yOu will, but at least study the
masters Of the style, aud learn from
them not to indulge in such squaudering
Picture well to yourself that, paid by the
line, La ROcheloucauld, if he had lived
in this age, and if he had lived by the
proceeds Of his pm, would scarcely have
lived one or two weeks, on what be
would have been paid for the Narims.
1t is possible; but whatever incon-
veniences atmsRner Of proceeding may
have, much more would some present
themselves if one wished to apply to the
price of literary works any rule having
for basis the merits Of the book.
I DO not czvil with the mode in
use; tut ! wish to make you observe
how unprohtably you make uss of it,
by showing you how some Of the mas
teis whom y-u should propose to your
selves as models il every respect would
proceed. You have introduced on thestage
an inn-keeper, a half do2sn travellers, a
conscript and his family there were so
many portraits to make. And the inn,
then! Do you believe that one Of the
masters Of whom am speaking to you,
would have let an inn pass by in that
wsy9 Far from it; and If the word inn
came to his pen, be would stop it, that
word, on the way, and would make it
disgorgs. Each saucepan would pay him
at lsast 8 duty of fifty centimes. And
the chimney he would not give the
chimney for fifteen francs; and there is
also q carFisge, which you might have
turned to account,
Would you have had me stop it on
the road
No; but tha. carriage OWES you ten
francs, which it only depended Oh you to
have paid to you and now let Us pass
on to the example Of another master
vou had q young Blsn who was travel
ing. and who was in the country, you
should have cried out: The country
voutb two beautiful and charming
things, II you join love 70 them-youth
love and the country! Youth, with its
bslisf, its illusions, its trust love, with
its dsvotions, its deceptions, its dreams;
the country, with its trees, It's winding
paths, its warbliDg Of birds; the country
is made for love and youth love and
youth are made for the country. It isin
the country that one must love, and it is
in order to 1--we that one must be young
youth without love is not youth love
without youth is not love; the country is
not the country without love and with
out youth of whst use would youth be
without love 9-of what use would love
be without youth? What can one do in
the country if one is not young there,
and If one is not in love there2 ETC., etc.
Third oceeiing-Instead of placing
your story at y vague and indsterminats
period, you should have taken a histOri-
cal period. One Of your characters would |
be the godsOn or the servant Of q cele-
brated parsonage, and would naturally |
assist at goodly volume OF events, or Of
festivals of that period, that you would |
find written everywhere.
Fourth proceeding Enough, said |
to my friend, there might happen to be
people who, If they heard you, would |
take these generslities for portraits.
But, replied my friend.
But, rejoined l, | only wish 70 take /
what you have said for generalities, see
ing that intend tacking your discourse |
on to one OF my chapters, which will |
slightly compensate the dlsinterestedness
with which you 30 severely reproach |
me. Here then ends, little less natu
rally, perhaps, but ends, nevertheless,
the first " "feuiileton " of the improbable !
story which I have undertaken to relate
TO you. WALEK.
Andrew johnson.
The New York Herald says, and that |
n savs so DroVas thatt the PfesideDt Is /