It was Jack Harpe speaking.

As he spoke Mr. Harpe braced an arm against the side of the building, crossed his feet, and scratched the back of his head.

"I wouldn't like that any myself," concurred Jack Harpe.

" "Crazy talk," commented Jack Harpe.

"Listen here," said Jack Harpe, suddenly, in a snarling whisper designed solely for the ears of Racey Dawson, "I dunno what you been a-drivin' at, but just for yore better information I'm telling you that I always get what I go after.

" "I remember Jack Harpe used to say that.

Isay, suppose you lemme talk to Jack Harpe first myself.

Came then the sound of a prodigious yawn from the room next door occupied by Jack Harpe.

"And give it away to Jack Harpe!" said scornful Racey.

"I ain't ever said a word to her," countered Jack Harpe.

" Public opinion, which at first had rather favoured Jack Harpe, now frowned upon him.

"You forgot yore shovel, Kansas," he said, gently, "or Jack Harpe did.

"Yep, I know, Jack Harpe," smiled Racey.

I wanna sift through this Jack Harpe business once more.

Jack Harpe won't let this slide.

He understood now the true reason for Jack Harpe's lack of activity.

" "Jack Harpe ever come out here?" "Long-geared fellersupposed to have capital?

Madame Récamier was now at the height of fashion, admired by Frenchmen and foreigners alike; not merely by such men as the Montmorencys, Narbonne, Jordan, Barrère, Moreau, Bernadotte, La Harpe, but also by Metternich, then secretary of the Austrian embassy, who carried on a flirtation with her all winter.

O that I had the Thracian poets harpe, For to awake out of th'infernall shade Those antique Caesars, sleeping long in darke, The which this auncient citie whilome made!

She flattered the fierce Deists by owning fealty to "Le Roi Voltaire;" she flattered the mild Deists by calling in La Harpe as the tutor of her grandson; she flattered the Atheists by calling in Diderot as a tutor for herself.

La Harpe has also a drama entitled Coriolan, produced in 1781.Livy, Annals, ii. 40.

La Harpe languished in confinement, probably, that he might not eclipse Chenier, who writes tragedies himself; and every author that refused to degrade his talents by the adulation of tyranny has been proscribed and persecuted.

I would not in any way detract from the literary value of a work which, as even critical La Harpe declares, "assures him one of the first places among French novelists;" but the interest inspired by Marianne is of much the same sort as that inspired by the Spectateur.

[105] La Harpe criticises Marivaux for this peculiarity.

La Harpe, Cours de littérature ancienne et moderne, tome XIII, p. 381.