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and how many pounds the piles of shillings; and besides, he said, after
all, when the laugh had passed, "Chaos Vanquished" would be found in the
depths of their minds, and something of it would remain there.
Perhaps he was not altogether wrong: the foundations of a work settle
down in the mind of the public. The truth is, that the populace,
attentive to the wolf, the bear, to the man, then to the music, to the
howlings governed by harmony, to the night dissipated by dawn, to the
chant releasing the light, accepted with a confused, dull sympathy, and
with a certain emotional respect, the dramatic poem of "Chaos
Vanquished," the victory of spirit over matter, ending with the joy of
man.
Such were the vulgar pleasures of the people.
They sufficed them. The people had not the means of going to the noble
matches of the gentry, and could not, like lords and gentlemen, bet a
thousand guineas on Helmsgail against Phelem-ghe-madone.
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