135 (Sonia Kovalevsky : biography and autobiography)

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expression I can give of what he seems to me
are these excellent lines by Musset:—

‘“Il est très joyeux—et pourtant très-maussade;
Détestable voisin—excellent camérade;
Extrêmement futile—et pourtant très-posé;
Indignement naïf—et pourtant très-blasé;
Horriblement sincère—et pourtant très-rusé.”’

(He is very cheerful—yet very gloomy ;
Detestable neighbour—yet excellent companion;
Extremely frivolous—yet very serious;
Dreadfully naïf—yet most fastidious;
Shockingly sincere—yet very cunning.)

And a genuine Russian into the bargain.

‘Certainly he has more original genius in his
little finger than you could squeeze out of many
others together, even if you used a hydraulic
press for the purpose. . . . So, from May 15th
till June 15th, I think I shall be in Paris, and
from thence we intend to go to Italy with M.,
and to meet you, for we have quite settled to
spend the summer there together. . . . M.’s
company always makes me wish to write novels,
for in spite of his huge dimensions (which by
the by are quite suitable to a Russian bojar),
he is the most perfect hero for a novel (of
course, a realistic one) whom I have ever met
in my life. And indeed, I also think he has
the right spirit for a good literary critic.’

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