[530] Vide the frontispiece of Settle's Empress of Morocco.
[531] It would be curmudgeonly to say, "evaded by shortness of space."
[532] They are, however, orthodox after a fashion; and I do not think that M. Fabre, in the books that I have read, ever introduces descendants of the Camisards, though dealing with their country.
[533] M. Fabre is so fond of these interrupted récits that one is sometimes reminded of Jacques le Fataliste and its landlady. But, to do him justice, he "does it more natural."
"Come to thy death,
Victor Galbraith."—Longfellow.
[535] See note above on M. Fabre's weakness for this style of narrative.
[536] The next to be mentioned runs him hard perhaps.
[537] Her girls are perhaps as good, but scarcely her men.
[538] This had not been the case—to an extent which I am puzzled to account for—with those of M. Fabre.