. Emile Zola; a biographical and critical study . M. Louis Hachelle. THE STRUGGLE UPWARDS 43 young ProveiKj^al, to hand him a small piece ofmoney. This job was to carry round to the housesof M. Boudets friends the cards which it is usual inFrance to leave on acquaintances on New YearsDay. One can imagine poor Emile Zola, with hishead full of poetic visions and his shabbiest of coatson his back, trudging about in the slush and thesnow to execute this most menial of services. It may here be remarked, to Zolas credit, thatthe long and bitter sufferings of his youth did notsour his character, as t
. Emile Zola; a biographical and critical study . M. Louis Hachelle. THE STRUGGLE UPWARDS 43 young ProveiKj^al, to hand him a small piece ofmoney. This job was to carry round to the housesof M. Boudets friends the cards which it is usual inFrance to leave on acquaintances on New YearsDay. One can imagine poor Emile Zola, with hishead full of poetic visions and his shabbiest of coatson his back, trudging about in the slush and thesnow to execute this most menial of services. It may here be remarked, to Zolas credit, thatthe long and bitter sufferings of his youth did notsour his character, as they might very naturallyhave done. When he talks of those evil days it iswithout indignation or revolt. I had no money, he will say, when speaking ofthose bad times, and I did not know what wasgoing to become of me; but, no matter, those werethe good times. Ah, youth! ones first literarypassions—the happy careless days ! When 1 hadread my fill along the bookstalls on the quays, orwhen I returned from some long walk on the banksof the Bievre, o
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