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Yet, unrhetorical as the music is, it is never pallid; and in such truly climacteric moments as that of Golaud's agonized outbreak in the scene with Mélisande, in the fourth act, and the ecstatic culmination of the final love-scene, the music supports the dramatic and emotional crisis with superb competency and vigor.
For the money you are going to bring me, I'll keep still to the police. But for the slap you've just given me. . . . Did you ever read that line of Congreve's about a woman scorned? You've had your last little love-scene with Polly Everton!" I'll tell it all. This time the murder demon proved too strong for me.
PARSON. "A middle-aged man, and a naturalist." SQUIRE. "No, no, Parson, certainly a young man; for that love-scene puts me in mind of my own young days, when I would have given my ears to tell Harry how handsome I thought her; and all I could say was, 'Fine weather for the crops, Miss. Yes, a young man and a farmer. I should not wonder if he had held the plough himself."
He was clean, wholesome, manly, healthy, inside and out. He was master of self. Of course, the gentle reader is sure that the next act will show a tender love-scene. And were I dealing with the lives of Peter Smith and Martha the milkmaid, the gentle reader might be right. But the love of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett is an instance of the Divine Passion.
Nothing remained now but to take my freedom to my chamber, to carry it with me to my bed and see what I could make of it. The play was not yet, indeed, quite played out. I might have waited and watched longer that love-scene under the trees, that sylvan courtship.
The opera opens with a charming, playful love-scene between Jacquino and Marcellina, whom the former is teasing to marry him. She puts him off, and as he sorrowfully departs, sings the Hope aria, "Die Hoffnung," a fresh, smoothly flowing melody, in which she pictures the delight of a life with Fidelio.
Passages from the different parts welled to his old lips; he gave the play over again the scene between the lover and the husband, where the husband lays down the strange and sinister penalty to which the lover submits the exquisite love-scene in the fifth act and the cry of agonised passion with which Dona Sol defends her love against his executioner.
It gives a rich tinge to all objects, even to those of sombre lines, yet without changing the lines. The complexions of people are exceedingly enriched by it; they look warm, and kindled with a mild fire. The whole scenery and personages acquire, methinks, a passionate character. A love-scene should be laid on such an evening.
In the red light from the globe marking an exit she saw his huge red hand, with its thicket of little golden hairs, creep toward the hand of the girl. Una longed for a love-scene on the motion-picture screen. The old, slow familiar pain of congestion in the back of her neck came back.
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