Capitolo 89
imagined after this his/her book it has to make a hit. It is probable that is blamed
and it insulted, but in every case now it was to the sure one from the ignominy of
forgetfulness.
Alas, as small knew about the mysteries of the book-market her! As
few as the whole rest of us. Day after day, from that afternoon
she looked in vain before, for following notices. Not an individual
the other paper in England made her/it a review. To the libraries, his/her novel
it was not so a lot never as asked for. And the reason for these phenomenons
it is not to look for far from those that you/they know the ways of the British public.
For his/her novel you/he/she was sincerely written and sincerely; a breathed
moral air, therefore you/he/she was voted dull; therefore nobody took care of for
it. The "Spectator" you/he/she had observed him because of his/her demonstration
the seriousness and the sincerity; for although the "Spectator" it is on always
the side of the lie and the evil, are serious and sincere, and
it has a genuine understanding for the seriousness and the sincerity, also on the
side of the truth and the rectitude. Anybody other also looked at him.
People told them, "This book seems to be a book with a
not teaching completely banal, as I novel-with-a-sweep later her
what we gather there; therefore we will give him for us a wide berth."
And they avoided accordingly him to them.
That was the end of the literary aspirations of Herminia Barton. You
you/he/she had given better her people, and the people refused him/it. Now
she gave them of her more mediocrity; the more next to their his/her own level
of thought and feeling to which it would be able ridurrsi his/her hand. And
the people accepted him. The rest of his/her life was cut-job object; from
what, she could earn a living at least for Dolores. His "Antigone,
for the use of the Schools" of Lord still holds his really to Girton and
Somerville.
XIV.
I don't propose to indulge to some length on the next ten or twelve
years of the life of Herminia Barton. An episode or two have to be enough;