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MADAME DE GIBABDIK. 77
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• In Her, The Published Following Two Ye...
will not form , tlie interest of this preface ; it won't even contain the eulogium of those who will have to review it in the papers ;
nois bod the y ' s ill vanit -will y of is any tickled coterie , nor petted anybod herein y ' s pet ; all aversion of which flattered sufficientl ; nor y
suggests _" Neither that is it the will aim be as of insi thi gnificant s preface as to the reveal book which a grand it , precedes sublime . , to infuse into
philosophical after-thought , which the writer forgot the to invent body of a st the le book of composition . He does not nor set to demonstrate up as a schoolmaster great moral , nor , y
, political , or literary truths ; he does not want to prove anything , his nor yet to describe any not thing portraits ; his manner He has does made not indicate no pretence a system of ;
personages are . it mending altered its society ; for on the it le contrary ases him , he just would as it be is ; quite it amuses c desole him ' if , waysp
, it sess insp because ires him , he cherishes such absurdit every re absurdit -assures y he him discovers on the it score to pos of - y
his own , oddities every and authorizes him to pursue them in peace , since without without he laughs pretension at them , , als so The o he as end desires soon and as that he aim finds other of this them peop preface le out should . is As in treat he fact writes him , to
declare that ceremony he wrote . the following pages for himself , , to amuse himselfand without intention of publishing them , without thinking
that , bodht to read themand without attaching the slihtest any importance y oug to them . This , is the -whole amount of his
quackery g , and the only originality on which he in the least prides himself . in
book _" Thus an author , then , may on whom those to serious pass jud peop gment le who , and can who only gravel see y a hold new the
their ivory knives suspended over his work like a sword over head alone— of it a victim was not ; may written such for , I them repeat and , be they so kind will as not to take let this it in book . It "
the only reveries appeals of to the those poet lazy , the imag marvels inations , of the who fairy follow tale with ; who pleasure do not of
morse analyse to that have which comprehende excites their d a sentence laughter which , nor make the Dictionary it a cause of the released with
lay Academy one ing for publishing has claim not to sanctioned the a novelet dignities ; which who of authorshi will sets be up p amiabl for on nothing that y p account , and ; for in
no factwithout even revising it , just as one sends oif to a friend a letter , written in haste , which one has not even taken the pains to
re readers -read " Finall or who y to , thi always sign s book . feel addresses a little itself gratitude to those to sp that irituels which and has indul wiled gent of
away an hour of waiting , an interval elapsing between a matter return consequence . This and category an affair include of p s le all asure men —between who are a farewell bored , and and all a
women who love—do not these two together make up nearly half
the world ?"
Madame De Gibabdik. 77
MADAME DE _GIBABDIK . 77
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1860, page 77, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101860/page/5/
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