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Article A FRENCH NOVELIST OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. ← Page 12 of 12
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A French Novelist Of The Seventeenth Century.
passport , which the authorities , who were by no means anxious to detain him , supplied without hesitation , to the great regret of his faithful companion ancl friend , the demon , who behaved with unfailing kindness to the last ; for , on finding that Bergerac was resolved upon departure , he at once expressed his desire to serve himand demanded to knoiv in what part of
, the world he would prefer to land . " I told him , " says our author , " that as most of the citizens of Paris Avere anxious , once in their liA'es , to make a journey to Rome , and believed that , having accomplished , this , there remained nothing to be done or seen , I should be obliged to him if he woulcl enable me to imitate them . "
His request met with a ready compliance ; his obliging friend caught him up like a AvhirlAi'ind , and after traA'elling thus for a day and a night , safely deposited him on the classic soil of Italy .
For a time the intrepid aeronaut had considerable difficulty in defending himself from the dogs , who , being accustomed to bay the moon , scented him out , and pursued him wherever he went ; but gradually the odour of earth prevailed over the lunar vapour ; old habits and old associations resumed their empire ; he began to think , and feel , and act like his fellow-men ; and he had no
sooner become convinced of this , than he made his way to Rome , Avhere his cousin , M . de Cyrano , had , no doubt , little difficulty in recalling to his recollection the unpleasant fact that , in order to reach his native country , it Avould be useless for him to set forth not merely with a pocket full of sonnets ancl serenades , but even with a portmanteau crammed with tragedies ancl
epics ; or to expect to satisfy his appetite on the road by inhaling the fumes which might chance to emanate from the hotel kitchens . Whether he did , in fact , volunteer this warning I knoAV not ; but thus much , at least , our author asserts , — that he generously supplied him with a sum of money which enabled him to reach Marseilles in a style conformable to his rank , and in a more consistent costume than that in which he had taken his departure from the environs of Paris .
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
A French Novelist Of The Seventeenth Century.
passport , which the authorities , who were by no means anxious to detain him , supplied without hesitation , to the great regret of his faithful companion ancl friend , the demon , who behaved with unfailing kindness to the last ; for , on finding that Bergerac was resolved upon departure , he at once expressed his desire to serve himand demanded to knoiv in what part of
, the world he would prefer to land . " I told him , " says our author , " that as most of the citizens of Paris Avere anxious , once in their liA'es , to make a journey to Rome , and believed that , having accomplished , this , there remained nothing to be done or seen , I should be obliged to him if he woulcl enable me to imitate them . "
His request met with a ready compliance ; his obliging friend caught him up like a AvhirlAi'ind , and after traA'elling thus for a day and a night , safely deposited him on the classic soil of Italy .
For a time the intrepid aeronaut had considerable difficulty in defending himself from the dogs , who , being accustomed to bay the moon , scented him out , and pursued him wherever he went ; but gradually the odour of earth prevailed over the lunar vapour ; old habits and old associations resumed their empire ; he began to think , and feel , and act like his fellow-men ; and he had no
sooner become convinced of this , than he made his way to Rome , Avhere his cousin , M . de Cyrano , had , no doubt , little difficulty in recalling to his recollection the unpleasant fact that , in order to reach his native country , it Avould be useless for him to set forth not merely with a pocket full of sonnets ancl serenades , but even with a portmanteau crammed with tragedies ancl
epics ; or to expect to satisfy his appetite on the road by inhaling the fumes which might chance to emanate from the hotel kitchens . Whether he did , in fact , volunteer this warning I knoAV not ; but thus much , at least , our author asserts , — that he generously supplied him with a sum of money which enabled him to reach Marseilles in a style conformable to his rank , and in a more consistent costume than that in which he had taken his departure from the environs of Paris .