,illustration3 ,george ,du ,maurier ,,english ,,society ,,sketched ,,by ,,george ,,du ,,maurier ,illustration3 ,logo ,,new ,,york ,,harper ,,brothers1 ,,publishers #ahig ,copyright1 #ahhf1 #ahhg1 #ahhh1 #ahhi1 #ahij1 #ahia1 #ahib1 #ahic1 #ahid1 #ahie1 and #ahif1 by ,,harper ,,brothers4 ,all rights reserved4 ,,george ,,du ,,maurier ,i was thinking1 with a pang1 just before ,i put my pen to the paper1 that the death of ,george du ,maurier must be a fact of stale interest to the reader already1 and that it would be staler yet by the time my words reached him4 ,so swiftly does the revolving world carry our sorrow into the sun1 our mirth into the shade1 that it is as if the speed of the planet had caught something of the impatience of age1 and it were hurried round upon its axis with the quickened pulses of senility4 ,but perhaps this is a delusion of ours who dwell in the vicissitude of events1 and there are still spots on the earth's whirling surface1 lurking-places of quiet1 where it seems not to move1 and there is time to remember and to regret2 where it is no astonishing thing that a king should be a whole month dead1 and yet not forgotten4 ,at any rate1 it is in the hope1 if not quite the faith1 of this that ,i venture some belated lines concerning a man whom we have lost just when he seemed beginning to reveal himself4 ,i4 ,it was my good fortune to have the courage to write to ,du ,maurier when ,trilby was only half printed1 and to tell him how much ,i liked the gay1 sad story4 ,in every way it was well that ,i did not wait for the end1 for the last third of it seemed to me so altogether forced in its conclusions that ,i could not have offered my praises with a whole heart1 nor he accepted them with any1 if the disgust with its preposterous popularity1 which he so frankly1 so humorously expressed1 had then begun in him4 ,but the liking which its readers felt had not yet become loathsome to the author1 and he wrote me back a charming note1 promising me the mystery1 and enough of it1 which ,i had hoped for1 because of my pleasure in the true-dreaming in ,peter ,ibbetson2 and speaking briefly1 most modestly and fitly1 of his commencing novelist at sixty1 and his relative misgivings and surprises4 ,it was indeed one of the most extraordinary things in the history of literature1 and without a parallel1 at least to my ignorance4 ,he might have commenced and failed2 that would have been infinitely less amazing than his most amazing success2 but it was very amazing that he should have commenced at all4 ,it is useless to say that he had commenced long before1 and in the literary property of his work he had always been an author4 ,this theory will not justify itself to any critical judgment2 one might as well say1 if some great novelist distinguished for his sense of color took to painting1 that he had always been an artist4 ,the wonder of ,du ,maurier's essay1 the astounding spectacle of his success1 cannot be diminished by any such explanation of it4 ,he commenced novelist in ,peter ,ibbetson1 and so far as literature was concerned he succeeded in even greater fulness than he has succeeded since4 ,he had perfect reason to be surprised2 he had attempted an experiment1 and he had performed a miracle4 ,as for the nature1 or the quality1 of his miracle1 that is another question4 ,i myself think that in all essentials it was fine4 ,the result was not less gold because there was some dross of the transmuted metals hanging about the precious ingot1 and the evidences of the process were present1 though the secret was as occult as ever4 ,he won the heart1 he kindled the fancy1 he bewitched the reason2 and no one can say just how he did it4 ,his literary attitude was not altogether new2 he perfected an attitude recognizable first in ,fielding1 next in ,sterne1 then in ,heine1 afterwards in ,thackeray3 the attitude which ,i once called confidential1 and shook three realms beyond seas1 and their colonial dependencies here1 with the word4 ,it is an attitude which ,i find swaggering in ,fielding1 insincere in ,sterne1 mocking in ,heine1 and inartistic in ,thackeray2 but ,du ,maurier made it lovable4 ,his whole story was a confidence2 whatever illusion there was resided in that fact2 you had to grant it in the beginning1 and he made you grant it gladly4 ,a trick8 ,yes2 but none of your vulgar ones2 a species of legerdemain1 exquisite as that of the ,eastern juggler who plants his ladder on the ground1 climbs it1 and pulls it up after him into the empty air4 ,it wants seriousness1 it wants the last respect for the reader's intelligence1 it wants critical justification2 it wants whatever is the very greatest thing in the very greatest novelists2 the thing that convinces in ,hawthorne1 ,george ,eliot1 ,tourguenief1 ,tolstoy4 ,but short of this supreme truth1 it has every grace1 every beauty1 every charm4 ,it touches1 it appeals1 it consoles2 and it flatters1 too2 if it turns the head1 if it intoxicates1 well1 it is better to own the fact that it leaves one in not quite the condition for judging it4 ,i made my tacit protest against it after following ,trilby1 poor soul1 to her apotheosis at the hands of the world and the church2 but ,i fell a prey to it again in the first chapters of ,the ,martian1 and ,i expect to continue in that sweet bondage to the end4 ,,ii4 ,if ,i venture to say that sentimentality is the dominant of the ,du ,maurier music1 it is because his art has made sentimentality beautiful2 ,i had almost said real1 and ,i am ready to say different from what it was before4 ,it is a very manly sentimentality2 we need not be ashamed of sharing it2 one should rather be ashamed of disowning its emotions4 ,it is in its sweetness1 as well as its manliness1 that ,i find the chief analogy between ,du ,maurier's literature and his art4 ,in all the long course of his dealing with the life of ,english society1 ,i can think of but two or three instances of ungentleness4 ,the humor which shone upon every rank1 and every variety of character1 never abashed the lowly1 never insulted women1 never betrayed the trust which reposed in its traditions of decency and generosity4 ,if we think of any other caricaturist's art1 how bitter it is apt to be1 how brutal1 how base6 ,the cruelties that often pass for wit1 even in the best of our own society satires1 never tempted him to their ignoble exploitation2 and as for the filthy drolleries of ,french wit1 forever amusing itself with one commandment1 how far they all are from him6 ,his pictures are full of the dearest children1 lovely young girls1 honest young fellows2 snobs who are as compassionable as they are despicable1 bores who have their reason for being1 hypocrites who are not beyond redemption4 ,it is in his tolerance1 his final pity of all life1 that ,du ,maurier takes his place with the great talents2 and it is in his sympathy for weakness1 for the abased and outcast1 that he classes himself with the foremost novelists of the age1 not one of whom is recreant to the high office of teaching by parable that we may not profitably despise one another4 ,not even ,svengali was beyond the pale of his mercy1 and how well within it some other sorts of sinners were1 the grief of very respectable people testified4 ,i will own myself that ,i like heroes and heroines to be born in wedlock when they conveniently can1 and to keep true to it2 but if an author wishes to suppose them otherwise ,i cannot proscribe them except for subsequent misbehavior in his hands4 ,the trouble with ,trilby was not that she was what she was imagined1 but that finally the world could not imaginably act with regard to her as the author feigned4 ,such as she are to be forgiven1 when they sin no more2 not exalted and bowed down to by all manner of elect personages4 ,but ,i fancy ,du ,maurier did not mean her to be an example4 ,she had to be done something with1 and after all she had suffered1 it was not in the heart of poetic justice to deny her a little moriturary triumph4 ,du ,maurier was not a censor of morals1 but of manners1 which indeed are or ought to be the flower of morals1 but not their root1 and his deflections from the straight line in the destiny of his creations must not be too seriously regarded4 ,i take it that the very highest fiction is that which treats itself as fact1 and never once allows itself to be otherwise4 ,this is the kind that the reader may well hold to the strictest accountability in all respects4 ,but there is another kind capable of expressing an engaging beauty1 and bewitchingly portraying many phases of life1 which comes smiling to you or 7in vulgar keeping7 nudging you1 and asking you to a game of make-believe4 ,i do not object to that kind either1 but ,i should not judge it on such high grounds as the other4 ,i think it reached its perfect effect in ,du ,maurier's hands1 and that this novelist1 who wrote no fiction till nigh sixty1 is the greatest master in that sort who ever lived1 and ,i do not forget either ,sterne or ,thackeray when ,i say so4 ,,iii4 ,when ,i first spoke1 long ago1 of the confidential attitude of ,thackeray1 ,i said that now we would not endure it4 ,but ,i was wrong1 if ,i meant that more than the very small number who judge novels critically would be impatient of it4 ,no sooner were those fearful words printed than ,i began to find1 to my vast surprise1 that the confidential attitude in ,thackeray was what most pleased the greatest number of his readers4 ,this gave me an ill opinion of their taste1 but ,i could not deny the fact2 and the obstreperous triumph of ,trilby1 which was one long confidence1 has since contributed to render my defeat overwhelming4 ,du ,maurier's use of the method1 as he perfected it1 was so charming that ,i am not sure but ,i began to be a little in love with it myself1 though ordinarily superior to its blandishments4 ,it was all very well to have ,thackeray weep upon your neck over the fortunes of his characters1 but if he had just been telling you they were puppets1 it was not so gratifying2 and as for poor ,sterne1 his sighs were so frankly insincere you could not believe anything he said4 ,but ,du ,maurier came with another eye for life1 with a faith of his own which you could share1 and with a spirit which endeared him from the first4 ,he had prodigious novelties in store3 true-dreaming1 hypnotism1 and now 7one does not know quite what yet7 intelligence from the neighborly little planet ,mars4 ,he had the gift of persuading you that all his wonders were true1 and his flattering familiarity of manner heightened the effect of his wonders1 like that of the prestidigitator1 who passes round in his audience1 chatting pleasantly1 while he pours twenty different liquors out of one magical bottle4 ,i would not count his beautiful talent at less than its rare worth1 and if this figure belittles that1 it does him wrong4 ,not before in our literature has anything more distinct1 more individual1 made itself felt4 ,i have assumed to trace its descent1 from this writer to that2 but it was only partly so descended2 in what made it surprising and captivating1 it was heaven-descended4 ,we shall be the lonelier and the poorer hereafter for the silence which is to be where ,george du ,maurier might have been4 ,w4 ,d4 ,,howells4 ,,english ,,society ,illustration3 ,,post-,,prandial ,,studies ,,fair ,,hostess 7passing the wine74--,i hope you admire this decanter1 ,admiral8 ,,gallant ,,admiral4--,ah6 it's not the vessel ,i am admiring4444 ,,fair ,,hostess4--,i suppose it's the port8 ,,gallant ,,admiral4--,oh1 no2 it's the pilot4 99 99 99 99 99 ,illustration3 ,,hampered ,,with ,a ,,conscience ,,tommy 7home from an afternoon party74--,mamma1 darling1 ,i've got a great favor to ask of you4444 ,please don't ask me how ,i behaved6 99 99 99 99 99 ,illustration3 ,,feline ,,amenities ,,old ,,lady 7to fashionable beauty1 who has recently married the ,general74--,and so that white-haired old darling is your husband6 ,what a good-looking couple you must once have been6 99 99 99 99 99 ,illustration3 ,,taking ,,the ,,chances ,,the ,,general4--,i've brought you a new book1 ,aunt ,emily1 by the new ,french ,academician4 ,i'm told it's very good2 but ,i've not read it myself1 so ,i'm not sure it's quite--a--quite correct1 you know4 ,,aunt ,,emily4--,my dear boy1 ,i'm ninety-six1 and ,i'll risk it6 99 99 99 99 99 ,illustration3 ,,trials ,,of ,a ,,painter',s ,,wife ,,sir ,,binks 7who always piques himself on saying just the right thing74--,a--what ,i like so much about the milkmaid1 dontcherknow1 is that your husband hasn't fallen into the usual mistake of painting a lady dressed up in milkmaid's clothes6 ,she's so unmistakably a milkmaid and nothing else1 dontcherknow6 ,,the ,,painter',s ,,wife4--,i'm so glad you think so4444 ,he painted her from me6 99 99 99 99 99 ,illustration3 ,,ladies ,,of ,,fashion ,,and ,,their ,,doctors 7,,scene3 ,the ,waiting-,room of a ,fashionable ,physician47 ,,fair ,,patient 7just ushered in74--,what--you here1 ,lizzie8 ,why1 ain't you well8 ,,second ,,ditto4--,perfectly1 thanks6 ,but what's the matter with you1 dear8 ,,first ,,ditto4--,oh1 nothing whatever6 ,i'm as right as possible1 dearest4446 99 99 99 99 99 ,illustration3 ,,bonjour1 ,,suzon6 99 99 99 99 99 ,illustration3 ,,rival ,,small ,,and ,,earlies 99 99 99 99 99 ,illustration3 ,,mother',s ,,darlings 99 99 99 99 99 ,illustration3 ,,daylight ,,wisdom ,,elder ,,sister4--,oh6 he proposed after supper1 did he--after dancing with you all night--and you refused him8 ,quite right6 ,my dear child1 never believe in any proposal until the young man calls at eleven in the morning and asks you to be his wife6 99 99 99 99 99 ,illustration3 ,,an ,,unappreciated ,,compliment ,good-night1 ,miss ,maud6 ,i'm not ,miss ,maud4 ,miss ,ethel1 ,i mean4 ,won't you shake hands with me8 ,how ungrateful of you6 and just after ,i've been taking you for your lovely sister1 too4 99 99 99 99 99 ,illustration3 ,,le ,,monde ,,ou ,l',,on ,s',,ennuie ,i see a tent4 ,i wonder what's going on inside8 ,let's go and see4444 ,what's the good of our going in there8 ,what's the good of our stopping out here8 99 99 99 99 99 ,illustration3 ,,the ,,tables ,,turned ,,tired ,,daughters4--,don't you think we might go now1 mamma8 ,it's three o'clock4 ,,festive ,,mamma4--,oh1 that's not so very late1 darlings4444 ,mayn't ,i have one more dance8 99 99 99 99 99 ,illustration3 ,a ,,sleepy ,,hollow ,,in ,,the ,,old ,,country 7,the ,common ,room at ,st4 ,morpheus1 ,oxbridge47 ,,first ,,tutor 7waking up1 and languidly helping himself to his modest glass of claret74--,ah6 ,i like a little sleep after dinner4444 ,it makes one ready for one's wine6 ,,second ,,tutor4--,well1 ,i like a little sleep before dinner best6 ,,the ,,master4--,pooh6 ,talk to me of the after-breakfast sleep in term-time6 ,that's what ,i enjoy66 99 99 99 99 99 ,illustration3 ,,taking ,,one ,,too ,,much ,,at ,,one',s ,,word ,,hostess4--,won't you play us something1 ,mr4 ,spinks8 ,,musical ,,amateur 7who thinks a good deal of himself1 in spite of his modesty74--,oh1 don't ask me--you are all such first-rate performers here--and you play such good music1 too4 ,,hostess4--,well1 but we like a little variety1 you know4 99 99 99 99 99 ,illustration3 ,,the ,,english ,,take ,,their ,,pleasures ,,sadly 99 99 99 99 99 ,illustration3 ,a ,,daughter ,,of ,,heth ,,lionel4--,oh1 ,i say1 ,benjamin6 how splendid your wife is looking6 ,she pays for dressing1 if you like6 ,,benjamin4--,does she1 my boy8 ,i only wish she did6 99 99 99 99 99 ,illustration3 ,a ,,question ,,of ,,age ,,teddy4--,how old are you1 ,aunt ,milly8 ,,aunt ,,milly 7who owns to #ce74--,oh1 ,teddy1 almost a hundred6 ,,teddy4--,auntie1 ,i can't believe you6 ,i'd believe you if you'd said fifty6 99 99 99 99 99 ,illustration3 ,,breakfast ,,at ,,bonnebouche ,,hall ,a southerly wind and a cloudy sky proclaim a hunting morning4 99 99 99 99 99 ,illustration3 ,,business ,,sir ,,bedivere ,,de ,,vere4--,oh1 ,i say4 ,how you do chaff6 ,you never take me seriously6 ,,american ,,belle4--,you never asked me6 7,no cards47 99 99 99 99 99 ,illustration3 ,,domestic ,,economy ,,mater4--,papa1 dear1 do you know a halfpenny weekly paper called ,flipbutts8 ,,pater4--,never heard of it in my life6 ,,mater4--,well1 it offers ninepence a column for answering questions1 and they are so difficult1 and we do so want to make a little money6 ,do leave off your novel and help us a little4 7,pater can only write two novels a year1 but gets ,l#aj1jjj for each of them47 99 99 99 99 99 ,illustration3 ,,what ,,induced ,,him ,,to ,,marry ,,her8 ,,he4--,look6 ,here comes young ,brummell ,washington1 with his bride4 ,i wonder what on earth induced him to marry her8 ,,she4--,oh1 probably somebody bet him he wouldn't6 99 99 99 99 99 ,illustration3 ,a ,,claim ,,to ,,social ,,precedence ,,hostess4--,you must give your arm to ,miss ,malecho1 ,william1 and put her on your right1 and make yourself as agreeable as you possibly can6 ,,host4--,why1 she's a person of no consequence whatever6 ,,hostess4--,oh1 yes1 she is6 ,she's very ill-natured1 and tells the most horrid lies about people if they don't pay her the very greatest attention6 99 99 99 99 99 ,illustration3 ,,an ,,introduction ,auntie1 darling1 this is my new friend1 ,georgie ,jones4 ,he is nice4 ,and isn't it funny1 my birthday is the ninth of ,january1 and his is the tenth1 so you see we only just escaped being twins6 99 99 99 99 99 ,illustration3 ,,banjonalities 7,the ,freemasonry of ,art47 ,,he4--,i beg your pardon--but--er would you be so kind as to give me the ',g'8 ,,she4--,oh1 certainly4 7,gives it47 ,,he4--,thanks1 awfully6 7,bows and proceeds on his way47 99 99 99 99 99 ,illustration3 ,,teutonic ,,satire ,,hostess4--,oh1 pray don't leave off1 ,herr ,rosencranz4 ,that was a lovely song you just began6 ,,eminent ,,barytone4--,yes1 matame1 bot it tit not harmonise viz de cheneral gonferzation4 ,it is in ,b vlat1 and you and all your vrents are talking in ,g4 ,i haf a zong in ,f and a zong in ,a sharp1 bot ,i haf no zong in ,g6 ,,accompanist4--,ach6 ,berhaps1 to opliche matame1 ,i could dransbose de aggombaniments--ja8 99 99 99 99 99 ,illustration3 ,,reasoning ,,from ,,induction ,look1 ,geoffrey6 ,that's ,lady ,emily ,tomlinson4 ,isn't she pretty8 ,yes4 ,and ,i s'pose that's ,lord ,emily walking with her6 99 99 99 99 99 ,illustration3 ,,those ,,infelicitous ,,speeches ,,professor ,,boreham4--,what6 alone1 ,mrs4 ,highflyer8 ,your husband is not ill1 ,i trust6 ,,mrs4 ,,highflyer 7innocently74--,oh no2 but he was afraid he might be1 if he came here6 99 99 99 99 99 ,illustration3 ,,social ,,perseverance ,,mrs4 ,,onslow-,,pushington4--,what a very singular woman ,lady ,masham is1 ,professor6 ,i have called on her every ,wednesday this month1 and the footman 7who knows me perfectly7 always said she was out1 though ,wednesday's her day at home1 and there were lots of carriages at the door6 ,she never calls on me--never6 ,and when ,i bow to her1 as ,i always do1 she always looks another way1 as she did just now4 ,i must really call again next ,wednesday4 99 99 99 99 99 ,illustration3 ,,the ,,last ,,straw6 ,what's the matter1 dearest8 ,you look sad4444 ,oh1 everything's going wrong4 ,the children are ill in bed1 and nurse has got the influenza1 and my husband declares that ruin is staring us in the face1 and ,i've got an unbecoming frock1 and altogether ,i'm thoroughly depressed4444 7,breaks down47 99 99 99 99 99 ,illustration3 ,,just ,,in ,,time ,,for ,a ,,cup ,,of ,,tea 99 99 99 99 99 ,illustration3 ,,feline ,,amenities ,,the ,,misses ,,tiptylte4--,such fun6 ,we're going to ,mrs4 ,masham's fancy ball as ,cinderella's ugly sisters--with false noses1 you know6 ,,miss ,,aquila ,,sharpe4--,what a capital idea6 ,but why false noses8 99 99 99 99 99 ,illustration3 ,,neighborly ,,compliments ,tell me1 ,mrs4 ,jones1 who's that young ,adonis your married daughter is looking up to so eagerly8 ,her husband1 ,mrs4 ,snarley6 ,dear me1 you don't say so6 ,i congratulate you4444 ,now ,i understand how you come to have such good-looking grandchildren4 99 99 99 99 99 ,illustration3 ,,gentle ,,terrorism ,,the ,,professor4--,will you give me a kiss1 my dear8 ,,effie 7an habitually naughty girl74--,oh1 mammie4444 ,i'll be good1 ,i'll be good4444 ,i promise6 99 99 99 99 99 ,illustration3 ,,an ,,unpleasant ,,social ,,duty ,,hostess4--,geoffrey1 ,i want you to dance with that little girl6 ,,geoffrey4--,oh1 well1 if ,i must1 ,i must4446 99 99 99 99 99 ,illustration3 ,,street ,,dialectics ,,brown 7who was all but run over74--,why didn't you call out sooner1 you stupid ass8 ,,cabby4--,i did1 sir6 ,,brown4--,why didn't you call out louder1 then8 ,,cabby4--,i did1 sir6 99 99 99 99 99 ,illustration3 ,,equal ,,to ,,the ,,occasion ,,mrs4 ,,gushington4--,oh6 oh6 what a lovely1 lovely picture6 ,so true1 so4444 ,,our ,,artist4--,wait a bit1 ,mrs4 ,gushington--it's wrong side up4444 ,let me put it right first4446 7,does so47 ,,mrs4 ,,gushington 7unabashed74--,oh6 oh6 oh6 ,why1 that way it's even more lovely still6 99 99 99 99 99 ,illustration3 ,,precedence ,,at ,,bonnebouche ,,hall ,,during ,,the ,,holidays ,grandpapa takes the bride in to dinner1 and the rest follow anyhow4 99 99 99 99 99 ,illustration3 ,,histrionic ,,egotism ,,our ,,pet ,,actor 7just arrived74--,by ,jove--these good people all seem to know me very well--nodding and smiling--7nods and smiles himself1 right and left7--uncommonly flattering1 ,i'm sure--considering ,i've never set foot in the town before6 ,,our ,,pet ,,artist 7his chum74--,i'm afraid it's me they're nodding and smiling at1 old man6 ,i come every year1 you know--and know every soul in the place6 99 99 99 99 99 ,illustration3 ,a ,,stately ,,staircase ,,winds ,,around ,a ,,large ,,hall 99 99 99 99 99 ,illustration3 ,,how ,,reputations ,,of ,,distinguished ,,amateurs ,,are ,,sometimes ,,made ,,herr ,,silbermund 7the ,great ,pianist7 ,,to ,,mrs4 ,,tattler4--,ach1 ,lady ,creichton has for bainting der most remarrgaple chenius4 ,look at dis6 ,it is eqval to ,felasquez6 ,m4 ,,languedor 7the ,famous ,painter7 ,,to ,,miss ,,gushington4--,ah6 ,for ze music1 ,miladi ,cretonne has a talent kvite exceptionnel4 ,listen to zat6 ,it surpass ,madame ,schumann6 99 99 99 99 99 ,illustration3 ,,eothen ,,cook',s ,,tourist 7female74--,what's that jagged white line on the horizon1 ,i wonder8 ,,cook',s ,,tourist 7male74--,snow1 probably6 ,,cook',s ,,tourist 7female74--,ah6 that's much more likely6 ,i heard the captain saying it was ,greece6 99 99 99 99 99 ,illustration3 ,,the ,,dancing ,,man ,,of ,,the ,,period ,been dancin' at all8 ,dancin'8 ,not ,i6 ,catch me dancin' in a house where there ain't a smokin'-room6 ,i'm off1 directly6 99 99 99 99 99 ,illustration3 ,,unconscious ,,cynicism ,,she4--,it's such years since we met that perhaps you never heard of my marriage8 ,,he4--,no1 indeed6 ,is it--er--recent enough for congratulations8 99 99 99 99 99 ,illustration3 ,,unlucky ,,speeches ,,she4--,what a disagreeable thing that insomnia must be6 ,very trying1 ,i think6 ,do you ever suffer from it1 ,captain ,spinks8 ,,he4--,oh1 dear1 no4 ,i can sleep anywhere1 at any time6 ,could go off this moment1 ,i assure you4446 99 99 99 99 99 ,illustration3 ,,fin ,,de ,,siecle ,that's where poor ,mrs4 ,wilkins used to live6 ,why 'poor' ,mrs4 ,wilkins8 ,well1 her husband was killed in that horrid railway accident1 don't you remember8 ,oh1 but that was months ago6 99 99 99 99 99 ,illustration3 ,a ,,cup ,,of ,,tea ,,and ,a ,,quiet ,,cigarette ,,after ,,lunch 99 99 99 99 99 ,illustration3 ,,precedence ,,in ,,vanity ,,fair ,the lady guests go in to dinner with the host and young ,sir ,john and young ,sir ,james and the ,hon4 ,dick ,swiveller1 while the hostess naturally takes the arm of her nephew1 ,lord ,goslin 7just from ,eton71 so that1 as the party is just two ladies short1 ,dr4 ,jones1 the great historian1 and ,professor ,brown1 the famous philologist 7whose wives have not been asked71 bring up the rear together4 ,,the ,,doctor4--,well1 ,professor1 we may be of less consequence than the rest1 but at all events we're the oldest and the most renowned6 99 99 99 99 99 ,illustration3 ,,things ,,one ,,could ,,wish ,,to ,,have ,,expressed ,,otherwise ,,puzzled ,,hostess4--,i beg your pardon1 ,lord ,bovril1 but will you tell me whether ,i ought to take your arm1 or ,prince ,sulkytoff's1 or the ,duke's8 ,,lord ,,bovril 7,lord-,lieutenant of the ,county74--,well--a--since you ask me1 ,i must tell you that--a--as her ,majesty's representative1 ,i am bound to claim the honor6 ,but ,i hope you won't for a moment suppose that ,i'm fool enough--a--to care personally one rap about that sort of thing6 99 99 99 99 99 ,illustration3 ,,dancing ,,men 99 99 99 99 99 ,illustration3 ,,ill-,,considered ,,utterances ,,well-,,preserved ,,elderly ,,coquette4--,ah6 ,admiral1 what a good time we had there1 junketing and dancing and flirting6 ,it all seems like yesterday6 ,do you remember the ,carew girls1 and your old flame ,lucy ,masters1 and that poor boy ,jack ,lushington1 who was so desperately in love with me8 ,,the ,,admiral4--,indeed ,i do1 dear ,lady ,maria6 ,and to think of their all dying 444 years ago6444 ,and of old age1 too6 99 99 99 99 99 ,illustration3 ,,an ,,equivocal ,,compliment ,,lady ,,prattler 7a confirmed first-nighter1 to actor-manager74--,i congratulate you on your success last night1 ,mr4 ,mc,stamp6444 ,how good you were6 ,it was all charmin'--so light1 so bright1 so well put on the stage6444 ,and oh6 such nice long entr'actes1 you know6 99 99 99 99 99 ,illustration3 ,,professional ,,beauties ,,of ,,the ,,past ,,housekeeper 7showing visitors over historic mansion74--,this is the portrait of ,queen ,catherine of ,medici--sister to the ,venus of that name4444 99 99 99 99 99 ,illustration3 ,,the ,,gondolette 99 99 99 99 99 ,illustration3 ,a ,,festive ,,procession ,meet of the ,four-in-,hand ,club1 ,hyde ,park1 ,london4 99 99 99 99 99 ,illustration3 ,,the ,,joys ,,of ,,hospitality ,,jenkins4--,good heavens6 ,why1 there's that brute ,tomkins6 ,the skunk6 ,i wonder you can ask such a man to your house6 ,i hope you haven't put him near me at dinner1 because ,i shall cut him dead4 ,,hostess4--,oh1 it's all right4 ,he told me all about you before you came in4 ,,jenkins4--,did he8 ,what did he say about me1 the ruffian8 ,,hostess4--,oh1 nothing much--merely what you've just been saying about him4 99 99 99 99 99 ,illustration3 ,,too ,,kind ,,by ,,half ,,he4--,oh1 ,i've long given up dancing for my own sake4 ,i only dance now with those unlucky girls that don't get partners4 ,who's that young lady behind you8 ,,she4--,my daughter4 ,,he4--,pray1 introduce me6 99 99 99 99 99 ,illustration3 ,,an ,,infelicitous ,,speech ,why1 you're looking better already1 ,sir ,ronald6 ,yes1 thanks to your delightful hospitality1 ,i've had everything my doctor ordered me3 ',fresh air1 good food1 agreeable society1 and cheerful conversation that involves no strain on the intellect6' 99 99 99 99 99 ,illustration3 ,,disappointments ,,of ,,lion-,,hunting ,,guardsman 7gazing at the motley throng74--,any great literary or scientific celebrities here to-night1 ,lady ,circe8 ,,lady ,,circe 7who has taken to hunting ,lions74--,no1 ,sir ,charles4 ,the worst of celebrities in these democratic days is that they won't come unless you ask their wives and families1 too6 ,so ,i ask the wives and families1 and the wives and families come in their thousands1 if you please1 and the celebrities stay at home and go to bed4 99 99 99 99 99 ,illustration3 ,,two ,,on ,a ,,tower ,,jones 7a rising young ,british architect74--,yes2 it's a charming old castle you've bought1 ,mrs4 ,prynne1 and ,i heartily congratulate you on being its possessor6 ,,fair ,,california ,,widow 7just settled in the old country74--,thanks4 ,and now you must find me a legend for it1 ,mr4 ,jones6 ,,jones4--,i'm afraid ,i can't manage that2 but ,i could add a story1 if that will do as well6 99 99 99 99 99 ,illustration3 ,,at ,,the ,,zoo ,,tommy4--,why don't they have little shut-up houses8 ,why do they have open bars8 ,,dorothy 7who knows everything74--,oh6 that's for them to see the people1 of course6 99 99 99 99 99 ,illustration3 ,,nature ,,versus ,,art ,just as ,stodge is about to explain the recondite subtleties of his picture to a select circle of deeply interested and delightfully sympathetic women1 his wife comes in with the baby1 confound it6 99 99 99 99 99 ,illustration3 ,a ,,new ,,reading ,,of ,a ,,famous ,,picture ,oh1 look1 grandpapa6 ,poor things 444 they're burying the baby6 99 99 99 99 99 ,illustration3 ,,ante-,,posthumous ,,jealousy ,isn't ,emily ,firkinson a darling1 ,reginald8 ,a--ahem--no doubt4 ,i can't say much for her singing1 you know6 ,ah6 but she's so good and true--a perfect angel6 ,i've known her all my life4 ,i want you to promise me something1 ,reginald4 ,certainly1 my love6 ,if ,i should die young1 and you should ever marry again1 promise1 oh6 promise me that it shall be ,emily ,firkinson6 99 99 99 99 99 ,illustration3 ,,distinguished ,,professionals ,,hostess 7to host1 after dinner74--,george1 dear1 how about asking ,signor ,robsonio and ,signora ,smithorelli to sing8 ,they'll be mortally offended if we do1 and they'll be mortally offended if we don't6 99 99 99 99 99 ,illustration3 ,,social ,,agonies ,,mrs4 ,,bloker4--,oh1 ,i'm sorry to disturb you at breakfast1 but ,i wanted to make sure of you4 ,mr4 and ,mrs4 ,dedleigh ,boreham are stopping with me for a few days1 and ,i want you to come and dine to-morrow1 or1 if you are engaged1 ,wednesday2 or ,thursday will do1 or ,friday or ,saturday2 or any day next week6 7,mrs4 ,brown feebly tries to invent that they have some thoughts of sailing to ,honolulu this afternoon1 and that they have just lost a relative1 but breaks down ignominiously47 99 99 99 99 99 ,illustration3 ,,true ,,blue ,but doesn't hearing those brilliant speeches sometimes make you change your mind8 ,my mind8 ,oh1 often6 ,but my vote1 ,,never66 99 99 99 99 99 ,illustration3 ,,nous ,,avons ,,change ,,tout ,,cela ,,the ,,old ,,marquis ,,of ,,carabas4--,what1 madam6 ,there's your lovely but penniless daughter positively dying to marry me2 and here ,i am1 willing to settle ,l#bj1jjj a year on her1 and give her one of the oldest titles in ,england1 and you refuse your consent6666 ,by ,george1 madam1 in my young days it wasn't the mothers who objected to men of my sort4 ,it was the daughters themselves66 99 99 99 99 99 ,illustration3 ,,speeches ,,one ,,has ,,to ,,live ,,down ,,hostess4--,so sorry to have kept you waiting1 ,mr4 ,green4 ,,visitor4--,oh1 don't mention it4 ,the anticipation1 you know1 is always so much brighter than the reality4 99 99 99 99 99 ,illustration3 ,,too ,,considerate ,,mrs4 ,,brown4--,oh1 ,mrs4 ,smith1 do have that sweet baby of yours brought down to show my husband4 ,he's never seen it4 ,,mr4 ,,brown4--,oh1 pray1 don't trouble on my account4 99 99 99 99 99 ,illustration3 ,,things ,,one ,,would ,,have ,,expressed ,,differently ,,genial ,,hostess4--,what1 going already1 ,professor8444 ,and must you take your wife away with you8 ,,the ,,professor 7with grave politeness74--,indeed1 madam1 ,i am sorry to say ,i ,,must6 99 99 99 99 99 ,illustration3 ,,happy ,,thought 99 99 99 99 99 ,illustration3 ,,flunkyana 7,a ,visit to the ,portrait-,gallery of ,brabazon ,towers47 ,pardon me6 ,but you have passed over that picture in the corner4 ,an old ,dutch master1 ,i think4 ,oh1 that6 ',the ,burgermaster' it's called ,by ,rembrank1 ,i b'lieve4 ,it ain't nothing much4 ,only a work of hart4 ,not one of the family1 you know6 99 99 99 99 99 ,illustration3 ,,oh1 ,,don',t ,,you ,,remember ,,sweet ,,alice1 ,,ben ,,bolt8 99 99 99 99 99 ,illustration3 ,a ,,window ,,study ,,the ,,maiden4--,good-morning1 ,mr4 ,jones6 ,how do you like my hyacinths8 ,,the ,,curate4--,well1 they prevent me from seeing you6 ,i should prefer ,lower cinths6 99 99 99 99 99 ,illustration3 ,,so ,,english1 ,,you ,,know6 ,the ,miss ,browns 7of a good ,bayswater family7 playing ,buffalo ,gals1 with variations1 on two ,american banjoes and an ,american parlor-grand4 99 99 99 99 99 ,illustration3 ,,social ,,tarradiddles ,,mrs4 ,,gushington 7aside to her husband74--,what a long1 tiresome piece of music that was6 ,who's it by1 ,i wonder8 ,,mr4 ,,gushington4--,beethoven1 my love4 ,,mrs4 ,,gushington 7to hostess74--,my dear ,mrs4 ,brown1 what heavenly music6 ,how in every bar one feels the stamp of the greatest genius the world has ever known6 99 99 99 99 99 ,illustration3 ,,love',s ,,labor ,,lost ,oh1 papa1 we've all quite made up our minds never to marry1 now we've got this beautiful house and garden6 7,papa has taken this beautiful house and garden solely with the view of tempting eligible young men to come and play lawn-tennis1 etc41 etc47 99 99 99 99 99 ,illustration3 ,,the ,,march ,,of ,,progress ,,she4--,after all1 there's nothing better than the wing of a chicken6 ,is there1 ,general8 ,,he4--,i never tasted the wing of a chicken4 ,i only know the legs6 ,when ,i was young1 you know1 my parents always ate the wings1 and now1 my children always do6 99 99 99 99 99 ,illustration3 ,,an ,,infelicitous ,,question ,,aesthetic ,,youth4--,i hope by degrees to have this room filled with nothing but the most perfectly beautiful things4444 ,,simple-,,minded ,,guardsman4--,and what are you going to do with these1 then8 99 99 99 99 99 ,illustration3 ,i ,,must ,,have ,,this ,,tooth ,,out6 ,i must have this tooth out1 it hurts so6 ,oh1 please don't1 or ,i shall have to wear it1 as ,i do all of your left-off things6 99 99 99 99 99 ,illustration3 ,,nemesis ,,mrs4 ,,constantia 7to old adorer1 who has married for money74--,and these are your children1 ,ronald8 ,oh6444 how like their mother6 99 99 99 99 99 ,illustration3 ,,too ,,late ,,he4--,what6 ,you haven't got a dance left8 ,,she4--,no4 ,it's past two o'clock6 ,why didn't you come earlier8 ,,he4--,well1 a feller must dine1 you know6 99 99 99 99 99 ,illustration3 ,,feminine ,,perversity ,,she-,,gossip 7alluding to newly-wedded pair74--,there go ',beauty and the ,beast1' as they are called6 ,she would marry him4 ,her parents strongly opposed the match1 as you may imagine4 ,,he-,,gossip 7who flatters himself that he understands the sex74--,by ,george6 ,the parental opposition must have been strong to make her marry such a ruffian as that6 99 99 99 99 99 ,illustration3 ,,consolation ,,de ,,snookke4--,there goes ,mrs4 ,gatherum6 ,she never asks me to her parties6 ,i suppose ,i am not swell enough6 ,,sympathetic ,,lady-,,friend4--,oh1 it can't be that6 ,one meets the most rowdy people in ,london there4 99 99 99 99 99 ,illustration3 ,,captain ,,lelongbow ,,captain ,,lelongbow 7a fascinating but most inveterate romancer about his own exploits74--,who's your favorite hero in fiction1 ,miss ,vera8 ,,miss ,,vera4--,you are6 99 99 99 99 99 ,illustration3 ,,aesthetics ,,mrs4 ,,van ,,tromp4--,oh1 ,sir ,charles6 ,modern ,english male attire is too hideous4 ,just look round 444 there are only two decently dressed men in the room6 ,,sir ,,charles4--,indeed6 ,and which are they1 may ,i ask8 ,,mrs4 ,,van ,,tromp4--,well1 ,i don't know who they are1 exactly2 but just now one seems to be offering the other a cup of tea4 99 99 99 99 99 ,illustration3 ,,an ,,accommodation ,,vocalist 7to fair ,stranger74--,a--,i'm going to sing ',fain would ,i clasp thee closer1 love6' ,may ,i look at you while ,i am singing8 ,,fair ,,stranger4-,oh1 certainly6 ,or at my grandmother4 99 99 99 99 99 ,illustration3 ,,svengali6444 ,,svengali6444 ,,svengali6 99 99 99 99 99 ,,books ,,written ,,and ,,illustrated ,,by ,,george ,,du ,,maurier ,post #hvo1 ,cloth1 ,ornamental #a #ej ,,peter ,,ibbetson ,three-,quarter ,calf #c #be ,three-,quarter ,levant #d #be ,post #hvo1 ,cloth1 ,ornamental #a #ge ,,trilby ,three-,quarter ,calf #c #ej ,three-,quarter ,levant #d #ej ,,the ,,martian 7,mr4 ,du ,maurier's last work1 now running as a serial in ,harper's ,magazine1 began in the number for ,october1 #ahif74 ,,trilby ,,souvenir4 ,photogravures in ,portfolio #hvo #ej ,,in ,,bohemia ,,with ,,du ,,maurier4 ,by ,moscheles #hvo #b #ej ,published by ,,harper ,,brothers1 ,new ,york ,for sale by all booksellers1 or will be mailed by the publishers on receipt of price4 ,transcriber's ,notes3 ,words surrounded by are italicized4 ,obvious punctuation errors repaired4 ,pg #b1 word indefinitely changed to infinitely 7infinitely less amazing74 ,caption for illustration ,a ,,daughter ,,of ,,heth1 name ,,benjamim changed to ,,benjamin4