I seem to myself to have as much as I need--to show my people, to exhibit their relations with each other; for that is all my measure.

If I watch them long enough I see them come together, I see them PLACED, I see them engaged in this or that act and in this or that difficulty.

How they look and move and speak and behave, always in the setting I have found for them, is my account of them--of which I dare say, alas, que cela manque souvent d'architecture.

But I would rather, I think, have too little architecture than too much--when there's danger of its interfering with my measure of the truth.

The French of course like more of it than I give--having by their own genius such a hand for it; and indeed one must give all one can.