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Rh to be published when it was within my power to prevent it. All the exceptions have been due to occasions when I was taken more or less unawares."

What was the cause for this scorn for reproductions of his own image on the part of the author of so many tales in which he boldly and habitually put forward his own personality when by so doing he could give greater vivacity to the episode he was relating? Certainly no spirit of pose or desire to be singular, no constitutional timidity, no fear that his outward man might give his admirers a disagreeable impression.

Guy de Maupassant was a handsome young