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"I mean," was the ready retort, "that you and Miss Beatrice Brunswick were married to-night at the Little Church Around the Corner, between two of the acts of Salome. I mean that I've got the straight tip, and I know it to be true. I wish to quote you, if possible, in what I shall write about it for the morning papers. I'd like to get a statement from the bride, too."
When informed that the interdict was to stand, he declared in a pet that he would settle in France and take out letters of naturalisation: "I am not English. I am Irish which is quite another thing." Of course the press made all the fun it could of his show of temper. Mr. Robert Ross considers "Salome" "the most powerful and perfect of all Oscar's dramas."
Open at random the catalogue full of quotations from the painter's pen and you encounter such titles as Leda and the Swan, treated with poetic restraint; Jupiter and Semele, Tyrtæus Singing During the Combat, St. Elizabeth and the Miracle of the Roses, Lucretia and Tarquin, Pasiphae, the Triumph of Alexander, Salome, Dante and Virgil, Bathsheba, Jason and the Golden Fleece.
Anything but the convent for my only child!" concluded the banker, with a sigh. But Salome had ceased to think of the convent. She thought now only of the missing marquis. The offers of marriage that had been made to Salome, rejected though they were, had this good effect upon her mind. They encouraged her to think more hopefully of herself.
The painter, moreover, seems to have wished to affirm his desire of remaining outside the centuries, scorning to designate the origin, nation and epoch, by placing his Salome in this extraordinary palace with its confused and imposing style, in clothing her with sumptuous and chimerical robes, in crowning her with a fantastic mitre shaped like a Phoenician tower, such as Salammbo bore, and placing in her hand the sceptre of Isis, the tall lotus, sacred flower of Egypt and India.
Again we find in these newly discovered papyri a phrase bearing upon this subject: To the question of Salome: "How long shall death reign?" The Lord answered: "As long as ye women give birth. For I am come to make an end to the works of the woman." Then Salome said to him: "Then have I done well that I have not given birth?"
"And this devoted son actually sacrificed all the prospects of his whole future life, in order to give peace and prosperity to his father's declining days," murmured Salome, with her eyes full of tears and her usually pale cheeks, flushed with emotion. "He did, young leddy, like the noble soul, he was," said Dame Girzie. "I never heard of such an act of renunciation in my life," murmured Salome.
Oh, I hope I did not! What name did you murmur? Tell me! tell me! WHO met Count Waldemar in a duel?" demanded Salome. "I have no choice but to tell you now, though I would willingly have kept the fact from you. It was the Duke of Hereward, the late duke of course, the deeply-wronged lover of that fair woman, who met, and, as I heard, killed Count Waldemar de Volaski.
The story of her sorrows, known only to the abbess, to whom she had confided it on the eve of her illness, was never alluded to. Salome seemed to have buried it in silence. The abbess feared to raise it from the dead. Not one in the convent suspected the real circumstances of the case.
After this, Sylleus the Arabian being suspected, went away, but came again in two or three months afterwards, as it were on that very design, and spake to Herod about it, and desired that Salome might be given him to wife; for that his affinity might not be disadvantageous to his affairs, by a union with Arabia, the government of which country was already in effect under his power, and more evidently would be his hereafter.
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