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Some exceptional actors and singers accomplish this feat occasionally. Mary Garden has scarcely ever failed to do so. The moment Mélisande is disclosed to our view, for example, she seems to be surrounded by an aura entirely distinct from the aura which surrounds Monna Vanna, Jean, Thais, Salome, or Sapho.

"Pelléas and Mélisande" is the most beautiful of Maeterlinck's plays, and to say this is to say that it is the most beautiful contemporary play.

"I will not have you touch me, do you understand?" he cries. "I came to get my sword." "It is here, on the prie-Dieu," says Mélisande, and she brings it to him. "Why do you tremble so?" he says to her. "I am not going to kill you. You hope to see something in my eyes without my seeing anything in yours? Do you suppose I may know something?" He turns to Arkël.

She too, she confesses, is ill, unhappy, though she will not tell Golaud what it is that ails her. Her husband discovers the absence of her wedding-ring, and harshly, suspiciously, asks where it is. Mélisande, confused and terrified, dissembles, and answers that she must have lost it in a grotto by the seashore, when she went there in the morning to pick shells for little Yniold.

"You might as well call them Jack and Jill!" "They're Pelleas and Melisande," declared Mrs. Phillips, in a tone of finality. "Thank you so much," she said, with a smile that reinstated Cope after a threatened lapse from favor. As they drew near the house they heard the tones of a gramophone.

She say to me 'Give it him with your own hand." The Duke received the letter and, sitting upright, tore it to shreds, thus confirming a suspicion which Melisande had conceived at the moment when he took to his heels, that all English noblemen are mad, but mad, and of a madness. "Nom de Dieu," she cried, wringing her hands, "what shall I tell to Mademoiselle?"

Her jewel-box stood open, to receive the jewels she wore to-night. She went very calmly to it. There, in a corner of the topmost tray, rested the two great white pearls the pearls which, in one way and another, had meant so much to her. "Melisande!" "Mademoiselle?" "When we go to Paris, would you like to make a little present to your fiance?" "Je voudrais bien, mademoiselle."

It might be less violent and more modern to call your trees Pelleas and Melisande, or " "That's it. That's the very thing!" said Medora Phillips heartily. "Pelleas and Melisande, of course. That girl had a very ordinary mind." "I've felt plenty of wind on the dunes, more than once," interjected Hortense. "Or Darby and Joan," Cope continued.

The opening scene of the third act shows the exterior of one of the towers of the castle, with a winding staircase passing beneath a window at which sits Mélisande, combing her unbound hair, and singing in the starlit darkness "like a beautiful strange bird," says Pelléas, who enters by the winding stair.

Debussy has aimed at creating a musical equivalent for the Maeterlinck 'atmosphere, The score of 'Pelléas et Mélisande' is a pure piece of musical impressionism, an experiment in musical pioneering the value of which it is difficult to judge offhand. He has wilfully abjured melody of any accepted kind and harmony conforming to any established tradition.

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