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"Until you find it more profitable to sell me." "You have it in your power to make it more profitable always for me to keep faith with you. It is due to you that we have done so well in Guichen. Oh, I admit it frankly." "In private," said Andre-Louis. M. Binet left the sarcasm unheeded. "What you have done for us here with 'Figaro-Scaramouche, you can do elsewhere with other things.
"If Pantaloon is to play Rhodomont, I think I'll leave you. He is not amusing in the part." And he swaggered out before M. Binet had recovered from his speechlessness. Ar four o'clock on Monday afternoon the curtain rose on "Figaro-Scaramouche" to an audience that filled three quarters of the market-hall.
On Wednesday they gave "Figaro-Scaramouche," and on Thursday morning the "Courrier Nantais" came out with an article of more than a column of praise of these brilliant improvisers, for whom it claimed that they utterly put to shame the mere reciters of memorized parts.
And in view of the importance now of Scaramouche, the play had been rechristened "Figaro-Scaramouche." This last had not been without a deal of opposition from M. Binet. But his relentless collaborator, who was in reality the real author drawing shamelessly, but practically at last upon his great store of reading had overborne him. "You must move with the times, monsieur.
"Do you mean to abandon to-morrow's performance?" All turned to stare with Binet at Andre-Louis. "Are we to play 'Figaro-Scaramouche' without Scaramouche?" asked Binet, sneering. "Of course not." Andre-Louis came forward. "But surely some rearrangement of the parts is possible. For instance, there is a fine actor in Polichinelle." Polichinelle swept him a bow.
They played it for the first time at Maure in the following week, with Andre-Louis who was known by now as Scaramouche to all the company, and to the public alike in the title-role. If he had acquitted himself well as Figaro-Scaramouche, he excelled himself in the new piece, the scenario of which would appear to be very much the better of the two.
This was not in itself extraordinary, for he was very hard at work again, with preparations now for "Figaro-Scaramouche" which was to be played on Saturday. Also, in addition to his manifold theatrical occupations, he now devoted an hour every morning to the study of fencing in an academy of arms.
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