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 less, would willingly have interpreted and done justice to his work.

"Many others forced their tragedies upon her," Paul de Musset says; "but they were not poets; il faut prendre les poètes comme ils sont."

Perhaps so; but does not the brother's pen refuse to write what he as well as all the world must have known by then, that the author of Rolla was no longer the poet but the "poét deçhupoète déchu [sic]," as Alfred himself described him.