The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-09-22

had an unwashod, unbrushed. unkempt
look altogether; and she assumed tone
OF superiority over me which | was not
then aware was warranted by her un-
doubted leadership.
GLIMPSE ISro THE GARD HOUSE"
Still, this closer acQuantanceship came
about later on. after Marion Evans
flight with George Lewes." Considering
all things, IL is rather magnificent or
Mrs. Lynn Linton 10 confess that she
called on them, by their JOINT request"
for. at the end of her article, she has
nothing but blame for this marriage
with George Lewes, which "fell into
ruins like the card-house which in real
ity Il whole thing was" But the first
impression Of George Eliot in her card
house is a pleasing one:
They were I'm lodgings in st. Johns
Wood. and the aureolc Of their new love
was around them. There waS none OF
the pretence OF a sanctioned union which
came aftcrwards-none OF the somewhat
pretentous assumption Of superior NOR
ality which was born OF her success.
She was frank. genial. natural and brim-
full Of happiness. The consciousness that
she had finally made her choice and cast
the die which determined her fate gave
her NJ bilitv OF expression and a gram
when I frs. knew. her
ARTIFICIAL. PnETENTIous UNREAL"
Mrs. Ign Linton then loved. honored
and admired her. But not for long:
Had she always remained on that level
she would have been the grandest wom-
an Of this or any other age. But sue
cess and adulation spoilt her. and de-
siroyed all simplicity. all sincerity or
character. She grew to he artificial,
posee. pretentious. unreal. She lived an
unreal life al through. both mentally and
socially: and in her endeavor 70 harmon
ize two rreconcilahles-to be az once
conventional and insurgent-the uphold
or Of the sanctity OF marriage while
living as the wife OF married man
the self-reliant law-breaker and the Gag
or postulant for the recognition granted
only 10 the covenanted-she lost every
trace OF that finer freedom and whole
heartedness which had been so remark
able i'm the beginning OF her connection
with Lewes She was a made woman
not in the French sense-but made by
STANDARDIZATION. as one makes a statue
or a vase / have never known any one
who seemed 10 me so purely artificial as
George Eliot.
She took a fine type for imitation; but
the result was not a fiesh-and-blood wo-
man. Not a line or spontanety was lett
I'm her...N Never for one instant did she
forget her self-created Self-never did
she throw aside the trappngs or the airs
of the benign Sibyl. Her soft low voice
was pitched I'm one level and monotonous
KEY. and her elaboration OF speech was
a trlhe irritating TO the eager whose
flint was already fired. Her gestures
were as measured as her words; her at
titudes as restrained as her tones She
was so conspicuously George Eliot
SO interpenetrated head and heel. inside
and out. with the sense Of her import
ance as the rreat novelist and profound
thinker OF her generation. az TO make
her society little overwhelming. leav-
ing on baser creatures the impression OF
having been rolled very fat indeed.
JEALOUS AND rIAcrfSG."
Among the other indictments which
Mrs Lynn Linton brings against George
Elict-there are a good many more in
tho two pages devoted TO the SUBJECTS
this
with all her studied restraint Of man
ner, George Eliot had q large amount Of
what the French call temperament A.
Q lover she was both Jealous ana sxacs-