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At length the first act was concluded, the marquis taking away as servants Serpolette and Germaine, the representative of timid beauty in the troupe, and for coachman the stupid Grenicheux.
'Yes, yes, that will suit me better; I understand. Then standing under the sloping wing, they both listened anxiously for the cue. 'She loves Grenicheux. 'There's your cue. On you go; give me your shawl. The footlights dazzled her; a burst of applause rather frightened than reassured her, and a prey to a sort of dull dream, she sang her first lines. But she was a little behind the beat.
It was in Birmingham that Ashton, Leslie's understudy, sang the tenor's music instead of her own in the first act of the Cloches: and poor So-and-so, who was playing the Grenicheux how he did look when he heard his B flat go off! 'Flat, murmured Montgomery sorrowfully, 'isn't the word. I assure you it loosened every tooth in my head.
Scene followed scene, character succeeded character, comic and ridiculous like the bailiff and Grenicheux, imposing and winsome like the marquis and Germaine. The audience laughed heartily at the slap delivered by Gaspard and intended for the coward Grenicheux, which was received by the grave bailiff, whose wig went flying through the air, producing disorder and confusion as the curtain dropped.
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