text: " "'Pourquoi ' s'ecria-t-elle avec emportement--pourquoi ne voulez-vous pas que je ressente vivement l'offense qu'on a fait a ce petit agneau a cette colombe sans fiel qui ne se plaint seulement pas de l'outrage qu'il a recu? Ah! que ne suis-je homme en ce moment pour le venger!" After this we think we are fairly entitled to affirm that Le Sage was not considered by his contemporaries as a man of original and creative genius; although he possessed in an eminent degree the power of appropriating and embellishing the works of others that his style was graceful his allusions happy and his wit keen and spontaneous