The Journal of the De Goncourts Pages From a Great Diary Being Extracts From T
The Journal of the De Goncourts Pages From a Great Diary Being Extracts From T
Edmond De Goncourt
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The voyage to the East did to a certain extent cure him : he didn't suffer from . . . Any more for sixteen years. Then the bother in connection with his niece's affairs brought it on again, and on Saturday he died of an attack of epilepsy, with all the symptoms, with foam at his mouth. His niece wanted to have a mould taken of his hand, but it was impossible to do it, it was so firmly contracted. Perhaps, if I had been there, by making him breathe for half an hour I might have been able to save... him. " All the same, it gives one a striking impression to go into the dead man's room . . . His handkerchief is on the table with his papers, his pipe with ashes 270 JOURNAL OF THE DE GONCOURTS. in it on the mantelpiece, the volume of Corneille, which he had been reading the night before, standing out of the shelves in his library. The procession starts. We climb up a dusty path to a little church the church where Mme Bovary went to confession, and where one of the little boys reprimanded by the cure Bournisien seems to be about to walk the tight rope on the top of the wall of the old cemetery.
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