“The Red and the Black” by Stendhal (post 9): Does the narrator slip into nosism—plural self-refence—because the narrator has multiple personality?

“Since it is our intention to flatter no one, we will not deny that Madame de Rênal, who possessed superb skin, had her dresses made so that they left her arms, as well as her breasts, quite open to view. She had a fine figure, and this way of showing it off was wonderfully becoming” (1, p. 48).

“It pains us to admit, since we love Mathilde, that she had received letters from several of these young men, and had sometimes replied to them. We hasten to add that, in so doing, she was an exception to the rules of her time. Lack of prudence is not usually ascribable to young women who have been students at the noble Convent of the Sacred Heart of Jesus” (1, p. 296).

Nosism, a person’s plural self-reference, has three usual kinds: 1. the royal "we" or pluralis majestatis, 2. the editorial “we,” and 3. the author's "we" or pluralis modestiae, which refers to the author and the reader (2), none of which explains the narrator’s nosism in the passages quoted above.

1. Stendhal. The Red and the Black: A Chronicle of 1830. Translated by Burton Raffel. New York, The Modern Library, 2003.

2. Wikipedia. “Nosism.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nosism

Added 9:30 pm: The narrator calls himself the "author" (1, p. 341).