XLIX

It is through leisure, in part, that I have grown,--to my great

detriment; for leisure, without wealth, increases debts; but to my

great gain, in regard to sensibility, meditation, and the faculty of

dandyism and of dilettantism.

L

The young girl of editors. The young girl of editors in chief. The

young girl, scarecrow, monstrous, assassin of art.

The young girl, what she really is. A little stupid and a little

slovenly; the greatest imbecility combined with the greatest depravity.

There is in the young girl all the abjection of the cad and of the

school-boy.

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