The brochure Tue la, however, brought me back to my original ideas concerning the febrility of this man, that the apparent serenity of the numerous gifts spread through them in the form of genius and subtlety of mind, was to me up till then sacred, impassable, and it, the brochure, brought back to my memory the cruel pamphlet written with a good motive, so brutal in its frankness, full of insupportable hypocrisy, respecting the very sensitive and good man necessarily irritable, somestimes imprudent when it was a matter of esteem or love.
With the younger Dumas I have only had dealings of courtesy, of which the last was his sending me a postcard in acknowledgment of my latest book Les Confessions de Paul Verlaine which contained the following words, so precious perhaps to my justifiable vanity — Merci bien affectueusement. (Thank you very kindly). Alexandre Dumas, 37, Rue Descarbes, Paris.
