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He who lives little, changes little, and it can scarcely be called living to wear out one's days over old texts. Nevertheless, I feel myself more imbued than ever, to-day, with that vague sadness which life distils. My mental balance (I hardly like to own it to myself) has been upset since the memorable hour in which the existence of clerk Alexander's manuscript was revealed to me. It is strange that, for the sake of a few leaves of old parchment, I should have lost my peace of mind, but nothing can be more true. The poor man, without desires, possesses the greatest of treasures; he is master of himself. The rich man who covets anything is only a miserable slave. I am that slave. The sweetest pleasures-the conversation of a man of subtle and impartial mind, or dining with a friend-do not make me forget the manuscript, the longing for which has haunted me ever since I became aware of its existence. It haunts me by day, it haunts me by night; it haunts me in joy and in sadness; it haunts me working and resting. I recall to mind the desires of my childhood. How well I understand now the all-powerful longings of my earliest years! At this moment I see quite distinctly a doll which was displayed in a wretched shop in the Rue de Seine when I was eight years old. How this doll happened to take my fancy, I do not know. I was very proud of being a boy; I despised little girls, and it was with impatience that I awaited the time (which, alas! has come) when a white and prickly beard would bristle on my chin. I played at soldiers, and, in order to feed my rocking-horse, I laid waste the flowers which my mother used to cultivate on the window ledge. These were manly games, I should think. And yet I longed for a doll! Even a Hercules has his weaknesses. At least the object of my love was beautiful? No. I see her still: she had a vermilion spot on each cheek, short soft arms, horrible wooden hands, and long legs far apart. Her flowered skirt was fastened to the waist with two pins; I can still see the black heads of those two pins. It was a low, provincial style of doll. I remember well that, young as I was, and not yet in breeches, I felt in my own fashion, and felt very deeply, that this doll lacked grace and dignity of bearing; that she was vulgar, that she was coarse; but I loved her in spite of that, I loved her because of that, I loved her alone; I would have her. My soldiers and drums lost their interest for me. I no longer stuffed sprays of heliotrope and veronica into the mouth of my rocking-horse; that doll was everything to me. With the cunning of a savage I devised schemes for obliging my nurse, Virginie, to take me past the little shop in the Rue de Seine. I used to flatten my nose against the window, and my nurse had to pull me away by the arm. "Master Sylvestre, it is late, and your mamma will scold." Master Sylvestre cared little then for scoldings and whippings. But his nurse carried him off like a feather, and Master Sylvestre yielded to force. Since then, with years, he has been spoilt, and yields to fear. He was afraid of nothing then. I was unhappy. Shame, unconscious yet irresistible, prevented me from telling my mother about the object of my love; hence my sufferings. |