Zibeline - Volume 1

ortions, whose walls are adorned with portraits of great actors, representing the principal illustrations of the plays that have been the

canvases, signed by Geffroy, represent the foyer itself, in costumes of the classic repertoire, the

ville, stood, one on each side of the great regulator-made by Robin, clockmaker to the king-which domi

autographs under glass: a brevet of pension, dated 1682, signed Louis and countersigned Col

rmchairs, and tete-a-tete seats in oa

frequenters of the theatre, eager to compliment the performers; here, those favored strangers who have the proper introduction, a

ing after his experience at the skating-pond. He had dressed,

reur', with Mademoiselle Gontier in the principal r

lord, who had bequeathed to her a certain amount of money. Therefore, sh

her investments sufficiently profitable to enable her to occupy a mansion of her own, and to open a salon which became a favorite rendezvous with many persons distinguished in artistic, fin

t, she had already descended from her dressing-room, and, finding herself alone in the gree

seated themselves in a retired corner

ee you to-night, in order to draw from your eyes a little of your courage

at of the enemy-above all, for you, w

all was perfect, look up there at that portrait of Rachel, and judge for yourself whether I

used this play to be

use of you," E

f

ntrepid as you, and as prodigal as you have been? Was he not

prevented her from fi

at attraction began on the fourteenth of last July. You had just arrived at Paris, and a morning journal, in mentioning the troops, and the names of the generals who appeared at the review, related, apropos of your military exploi

the pleasures of the theatre, of which I am very fond, and I began by going to the Comedie Francaise

you instantly, sitting in the

the right to love a girl of noble birth, I fell readily under the spell in which she whom you represented echoed my own sentiments. Bernard Stamply also had just returned from captivity, and the more enamored of you he became the more I plea

ly. "Since then you have consecrated to me a part of whatever time is at your disposal,

e voice of the call-b

"I shall wish to know how you find me in the great scene, and whether t

y well that t

n are so inconstant! By and by, Ma

ne!" Henri replied

g the passage that ends at the head of the grand stairway, he entered the