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But, as a rule, Racine's characters speak out most clearly when they are most moved, so that their words, at the height of passion, have an intensity of directness unknown in actual life. In such moments, the phrases that leap to their lips quiver and glow with the compressed significance of character and situation; the 'Qui te l'a dit? of Hermione, the 'Sortez' of Roxane, the 'Je vais

I was particularly struck by the charm and beauty, no less than the originality and talent, of the actress who took the part of Roxane. * "Hearken, Bajazet, I feel I love you." I never wearied of gazing at her all the time she occupied the stage, and admiring the beauty of her eyes that gleamed below a brow as pure as marble and crowned by powdered locks all spangled with pearls.

This indeed is the framework of his poetry, and to speak of it adequately would demand a wider scope than that of an essay; for how much might be written of that strange and moving background, dark with the profundity of passion and glowing with the beauty of the sublime, wherefrom the great personages of his tragedies Hermione and Mithridate, Roxane and Agrippine, Athalie and Phèdre seem to emerge for a moment towards us, whereon they breathe and suffer, and among whose depths they vanish for ever from our sight!

Thus when the Sultana, Roxane, discovers her lover's treachery, her mind flies immediately to thoughts of revenge and death, and she exclaims

She beckoned to me to get in, and when I was seated beside her: "Do you not," she asked me, "recognize Sophie, whom you rescued from drowning on the banks of the Seine?" "What! you! Sophie Roxane Mademoiselle B , is it possible? My confusion was extreme, but she appeared to view it without annoyance. "I saw you," she went on, "in one corner of the pit. I knew you instantly and played for you.

Two or three others of moderate merit succeed, and then comes Mademoiselle Jullien, who gives the great scene of Roxane in Bajazet with so much intelligence of intonation and grace of gesture that the audience are moved to sudden applause.

She alluded presently to her preposterously-named daughters, Brynhild, Melissa and Guendolen, and he was reminded of a French family of musicians with whom he had travelled on the steamer between Rio and Sao Paulo, a double-chinned swarthy Madame and her three daughters, Céline, Roxane and Juliette, who sat about on deck nursing musical instruments tied with grubby scarlet ribbons, silent and dispirited, as though they were so addicted to public appearance that they found their private hours an embarrassment.

He added that she was as great a favourite in society as on the boards, that M. le Duc de La had made her the fashion and that she was on the highroad to eclipse Mademoiselle Lecouvreur. I was just leaving my seat after the performance when a "femme de chambre" handed me a note in which I found written in pencil the words: "Mademoiselle Roxane is waiting for you in her coach at the theatre door."

In RACINE'S, the parts of Athalie and of Phedre in the tragedies of the same name, of Agrippine in Britannicus, of Clitemnestre in Iphigenie en Aulide, and of Roxane in Bajazet. In VOLTAIRE'S, those of Merope and Semiramis; and, lastly, that of Medee in the tragedy by LONGEPIERRE.

She afterward appeared as Hermione in "Andromaque," Aménaide in "Tancrède," Eriphile in "Iphigénie," Monime in "Mithridate," and Roxane in "Bajazet," the receipts now gradually rising, until, in October, when she played Hermione for the tenth time, six thousand francs were taken at the doors, an equal amount being received in November, when, for the sixth time, she appeared as Camille.