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"L'Esclave de Camoens" appeared in Paris in 1843; "Stradella," rewritten as an opera, in Hamburg ; "L'Âme en peine," in Paris ; "Martha," in Vienna . The works of his later period, which never equalled his earlier ones in popularity, were "Die Grossfürstin" ; "Indra" ; "Rubezahl" ; "Hilda" ; "Der Müller von Meran" ; "La Veuve Grapin" ; "L'Ombre" ; "Naïda" ; "Il Flor d'Harlem" ; and "Enchanteresse" . Of these later works, "L'Ombre" was the most successful, and was received with favor in France, Italy, Spain, and England, in which latter country it was performed under the title of "The Phantom."
He sat down again, and without taking any more thought wrote straight from the heart of his present humour, addressing her by the name he had once playfully bestowed upon her. "Enchanteresse! I am here in Rome, and this brief letter is to ask, without preamble or apology, whether you will do me the infinite honour to become my wife.
Just before the horn sounded for the carriages to start, from the farthest end of the allée we saw an officer galloping as hard as he could. "Mon Dieu! C'est Gaston!" screamed the Baronne. "C'est pour vous, Enchanteresse," said the Comte. "Que c'est ridicule," snapped Victorine, while the Marquise laughed and put her tongue into her gap. "Oh! la belle jeunesse!" she said.
To imagine them chargeable with all the guilt and folly of their own actions, is to be very little acquainted with the world. De l'absolu pouvoir vous ignorez l'yvresse, Et du lache flateur la voix enchanteresse. Thou hast not known the giddy whirls of fate, Nor servile flatteries which enchant the great.
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