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Show GREAT WRITER LOVED PRAISE. Modesty Not a Distinguishing Char-acterlstlc Char-acterlstlc of Victor Hugo. Victor Hugo liked to bt- praised. Robert Harboroiigh Sherard, author of 'Twenty Years In Pails," tells how when young women fiom Kngland or America came to gaze upon the master, mas-ter, s occasionally It was permitted them to do, the interpreter of their simple praises did not boggle matters in the least. The young ladles would say, In Hngllsh or American, something some-thing llko this. "Oh, tell Mr. Hugo that wo have rend his works and liked them ho much that we nre to pleased to see him." Thiwn snnmiv encomiums would bo rendered thus; "Illustrious master, these joung daughters of the young republic (or of an antique monarchy, as the caso might lie) fiel It Impossible to leavo Paris without lujing at the feet of that genius which s tho Imperishable Imperish-able glorj of Franco and tho wonder and honor of tho universe tho laurel wreath of their profoundest admiration admira-tion nnd homage." |