The poor parents = Les parents pauvres . ed some-what too soon; that the struggle, first over the body andthen over the property of Patrocliis-Pons, is inordinately spunout; and that, even granting the authors mania, he mighthave utilized it better by giving us more of the harmless andill-treated cousins happy hunts, and less of the disputes overhis accumulated quarry. This, however, means simply the xii PREFACE. old, and generally rather impertinent, suggestion to the artistthat he shall do with his art something different from thatwhich he has himsef chosen to do. It is, or should be, suffi-
The poor parents = Les parents pauvres . ed some-what too soon; that the struggle, first over the body andthen over the property of Patrocliis-Pons, is inordinately spunout; and that, even granting the authors mania, he mighthave utilized it better by giving us more of the harmless andill-treated cousins happy hunts, and less of the disputes overhis accumulated quarry. This, however, means simply the xii PREFACE. old, and generally rather impertinent, suggestion to the artistthat he shall do with his art something different from thatwhich he has himsef chosen to do. It is, or should be, suffi-cient that Le Cousin Pons is a very agreeable book, more/ pathetic, if less grimy, than its companion, full of its authors idiosyncrasy, and characteristic of his genius. Itmay not be uninteresting to add that Le Cousin Pons wasoriginally called Les Deux Musiciens, or Le Parasite,and that the change, which is a great improvement, wasdue to the instances of Madame Hanska. (For bibliography, see the Preface to • La Cousine Bette.) G. THE POOR PARENTS (Z<?j Parents Fauvres). COUSIN BETTY. PART II. The words spoken by Lisbeth : He begs of his former mis-tresses, haunted the baroness all night. Like sick men givenover by the physicians, who have recourse to quacks, like menwho have fallen into the lowest Dantesque circle of despair, ordrowning creatures who mistake a floating stick for a hawser,she ended by believing in the baseness of which the mere ideahad horrified her; and it occurred to her that she might applyfor help to one of those odious women. Next morning, without consulting her children or saying aword to anybody, she went to see Mademoiselle JosephaMirah, prima donna of the Royal Academy of Music, to findor to lose the hope that had gleamed before her like a will-o-the-wisp. At midday the great singers waiting-maid broughther in the card of the Baronne Hulot, saying that this personwas waitingat the door, having asked whether mademoisellecould receive her. •A
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