MADELEINE
ONE OF LOVE’S JANSENISTS
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COLLINS—LONDON
MADELEINE
ONE OF LOVE’S JANSENISTS
BY
HOPE MIRRLEES
LONDON: 48 PALL MALL
W. COLLINS SONS & CO. LTD.
GLASGOW MELBOURNE AUCKLAND
Copyright
| First Impression, | October 1919 |
| Second ” | October 1919 |
TO
MY MOTHER
Fiction—to adapt a famous definition of law—is themeeting-point of Life and Art. Life is like a blindand limitless expanse of sky, for ever dividing into tinydrops of circumstances that rain down, thick and fast,on the just and unjust alike. Art is like the dauntless,plastic force that builds up stubborn, amorphoussubstance cell by cell, into the frail geometry of a shell.These two things are poles apart—how are they to meetin the same work of fiction?
One way is to fling down, pêle-mêle, a handful ofseparate acts and words, and then to turn on them theconstructive force of a human consciousness that willarrange them into the pattern of logic or of drama.
Thus, in this book, Madeleine sees the t