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"She herself," answered Adrienne, bitterly; "but, after all, we must pity as well as blame her. She was forced to obey by a terrible necessity, and her confession and repentance secured my pardon before her death." "Then she is dead so young! so fair!" "In spite of her faults, I was greatly moved by her end. She confessed what she had done, with such heart-rending regrets.
And all this in your own interest, that your poor head may not again be dangerously excited." "So, sir," said Adrienne, almost terrified, "compared with what awaits me, the last few days have been days of liberty." "Your interest before everything," answered the doctor, in a fervent tone.
We know each other. You know who I am, and you are Brunehild, Adrienne Cardoville of the Wandering Jew, the gold chestnut hair that Captain Korff has told me of, in a word Helene!"
His eyes sparkled with a wild ardor. Leaning a little forward, with both hands pressed on the front of the box, his whole body trembled with a convulsive shudder. The audience, the theatre, Adrienne herself no longer existed for him; he was in a forest of his own lands, tracking the tiger.
Grivois went, according to my orders, to remind Adrienne that I expected her at noon, upon important business. As she approached the pavilion, Mrs. Grivois saw, or thought she saw, Adrienne come in by the little garden-gate." "What do you tell me? Is it possible? Is there any positive proof of it?" cried the marquis. "Till now, there is no other proof than the spontaneous declaration of Mrs.
"Since you are a mechanic, sir," resumed Adrienne, "I cannot but felicitate myself on having so suitable a hearer. But please to be seated." With a gesture full of affability, she pointed to an armchair of purple silk embroidered with gold, sitting down herself upon a tete-a-tete of the same materials.
As they did so, a sudden blare of trumpets and strains of martial music burst forth, and the black-robed deputies of the clergy appeared, separated into two files by the band of royal musicians. "'Tis like a play, n'est ce pas?" said Adrienne, gayly, to Mr. Morris, who had again come up, having been dismissed by Madame de Flahaut on the arrival of Monsieur de Curt.
Such was the rival of the innocent Madame de Vandenesse. Raoul was the connecting link between the actress and the countess, a knot severed by a duchess in the days of Louis XV. by the poisoning of Adrienne Lecouvreur; a not inconceivable vengeance, considering the offence. Florine, however, was not in the way of Raoul's dawning passion.
The twenty-eight thousand francs were handed over to an attorney who made a claim in my name on the Board of Customs. My trunks were left with me, thanks to this payment, and the rehearsals commenced at Booth's Theatre. On Monday, November 8, at 8.30, the curtain rose for the first performance of Adrienne Lecouvreur.
I do not find fault, but you turn me about like a teetotum." "You are right. We shall be better able to explain things upstairs. Come with me quick! quick!" said Dagobert, as, taking the Jesuit by the arm, he hurried him along, and brought him triumphantly into the room, where Adrienne and Mother Bunch had remained in much surprise at the soldier's sudden disappearance.
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