New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-05-11
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Them Chattanooga Times.
i:ustave D0re.
IF.em La Petite Revue de Parish
Little did | think when I entered the
Cafe pufUur, the othe. day at four o'clock
in the afternoon. tina. should have Gus.
tave bore as % companion at the small
table On which took NY dinner. We mad
been cid acquaintance IN times gone bv-
when the soung artist was still poor, and
wien he had to draw his wonderful
sketch hes III q small room i'll the Rue Der.
nard!n. He then looked the very picture
Of health. gayetv and int. ligence. and
believe never saw Lin at that time with
ont smile On his lips, which lent pecu-
liar challn 10 his handsome face. in fact
of all Tie rising. struggling talents OF that
period III PdIi is. young Dore seemed to LOOK
forward 20 the future with the most sano
guine expectations. and the tImrst belief
IN his Own destiny. Every body Liked hiul.
every body rympathiz.d with him, and ey
cry body seemed TO Re juice III his triumphs
as much and as heartily. as he did himself.
Having been abroad since 1868, bad no.:
seen Dore since that time. and " hen he took
a seat opposite to mine at the :able III the
cafe diu not recognize him at tirs.. for i'll
tLo>. five brief years his appearance had
undergone q very marked change -. So
marked, indeed. that when he held ont his
hdn'i 10 HE. with Il smile, ard said: ''Dv
you no: know me any more, my fliend!
ala Do,t." felt inclined almost 20 question
his word. What: Young i'll years. Yet
Gusiave Dore had grown old. His face was
deeply iurrowed. His Voice had grown
husky. His smile was sad. and an air ut
depression and melancholy seemed to have
permanently settled upon his countenance.
lie Noticed my surprise, and. rs We were
shaking hands, be asked:
Am l, then SO greatly changed =
''faldon RE- replied, ''you look as #
you had been sick. or DIS il you had under.
gone much trouble"
my wife," he said. tn:ling. ":ei!s ine he
sane thing"
His wife: Sure enough; he had been
married, during my absence from France,
to a very charming ard highly accomplished
daughter Of our country. ] offered my cone
CALCULATIONS. adding:
Il ain sure you are happy ~
''Wby should l 10. be E. he said. ''Nor
have been sick. and yet feel restless ana
gloomy
| suggested that ie might recently have
outwolked himself. He replied that he
had never produced as little at any period
of his artistic career as in the past two
years. HIS work he sale, did not please
him any mere as well as in former years.
Critics he added had always been very
kind to himo The time was when he did
not care for what they wrote about him.
But ef late he had become almost mOrbidly
sensitive i'll regard to this mat:uro ''Ihe
o;Ee. day." he said 70 me quits seriously,
Il was g;fa;iv mortified by an article on
he in the feui!fe1on Of the Ionya0s des De
bats. VIII you believe il. passed sleep.
iess night III aonser hence! And We: :he
writer OF that article has treated lps kindly
aud considers tely."
He paused inemens. slipping his elares.
! must confess was deeply interested IN
what the great artist told me. Could it be
that. as Jules Janin predicted years ago.
in his case, over reproduction had exhausted
the sources Of his genius, and that the
vague consciousness of this tact had led
10 Tie singular psychological phenomena
which he related!
''Apd then, Il. added gravefr.'i am se:.
ting tired OF Paris. That is singular. zoo.
for if any body ever loved Paris il was ].
Everything binds fne TO Paris. aud s.i!!
long 70 get away from it,
What binders You from travelling !"
yentuled 70 remal X with a smile.
Nothing special. indeed" lie replied:
hut Gan Io: make up my mind ~LitEe:
20 CO.
"BaL:'l laughed: "il~ world IS wide.
and. TO you. every here beautiful
The truth then leaked out--that II. bore
for some time past had been thinking oi :.1!.
deytahing :" voyage round the world.
"a splendid idea" ] exclaimed. wishing
thereby
But" lie said. "wiat want 20 60 is 90
?raye! in sailing vessel. want to see the
Arctic sea. and want to 90 to Australia.
ans bound to see al! that is grand in North
America: and all that. you know. Will take
years. which l may not have to spare
The last few words he uttered in SO somtre
a tone tina! they sounded like prediction
of lis own premature death. Anxious 20
own travels on the western coas. Of Africa.
From the nOnOsyllabc manner in which he
answered me every now and then. l saw
plainly that lie took but little jn.eres: il
Hha: had related le him.
''You see" said gayly. II had 20 :cugf.
10: for ny means We're quite limited. tu. d
Sich man like YOU
.'What do you call a rich mani" he
asked with !. ine;ry 1wink!s IN his fine
eyes.
Zone whc. like You. can easily earn nns.
hundred thousand francs a year. Why,
yOu can build Yourself magnificent Yacht.
and go in it fynIn one end OF the xor!d 80
the other"
Here I found some thing else that both.
cred N. Dore when dreaming Of this con.
;emr'a'ed voyage arannd the world. He
c'm'd Neve: SGT too. "n Il ship without sui:
s"sing severely from seas;okness. Like
Gar Nicholas Of Russia. he loves the sea,
despite TIE cruelty with which it treats hin,
whe never L. ventures nut upon it
One day he :old me he had been
sick for weeks in conseq uence of a trip
across the channel. told him there was
no remedy against sea-sickness. but that
he would probably soon overcome It.
GLADLY wo',l! 90 to New York tocInor-
row. he said. ''but for my aversion to this
uause i.ting Sickness His young wife, he
added. was greatly in favor of the scheme,
because she believed that his depression of
spirits would be rcmedied by so thorough a
cha, =s OF air and places. She had bravely
promised TO accompany him. even if he
took her to the north pole or TO the Canni.
bal islands.
a: this both of us laughed heartily. NJ.
Doye rose frcm the chair. shook hands with
NE ard lett the place. As he opened the
door ! saw that he heaved Sigh, and that
hes SAGE had resumed it's sOmbre expression
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