Pictures of the French: a series of literary and graphic delineations of French character (1840)
Janin, Jules Gabriel, 1804-1874 · London, W. S. Orr and co. · leaf 292
speaking has no fellow-beings in the placewhere we find him : there, the world is composed only of himself, and Numbers One,Two, Three, Four, &c. Where are we, then ? We are at a gathering-point, where are congregated infirmartizans, honest tradesmen, too-confiding capitalists, the faithful… … 178 THE HOSPITAL ATTENDANT. Now let us speak of the man we have just been observing. Is it from taste, fromnecessity, or from a self-imposed penance, that his life is consecrated to disease andinfection ? De we behold in him some generous disciple of the good Mere Agnes,or of Gerard de Provence ;…
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