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Updated: May 27, 2025
The town of Saint Macaire on the Garonne is walled about. But the walls did not give to the citizens all the security they desired; the ramparts might be battered down, escaladed, or the gates burst open.
There are born scamps in the world, Diana, and I am one of them. My name is Robert Macaire, and I was created for the life I lead. Keep clear of me if you have any hankering after better things; but don't try to change my nature, for it is wasted labour." "Valentine, it is so cruel of you to talk like that." "Cruel to whom?" "To those who care for you." Mr. Hawkehurst laughed aloud.
Who ever heard of a journal changing its politics? O tempora! O mores! as Robert Macaire says, this would be carrying the joke too far. When he has done with newspapers, Robert Macaire begins to distinguish himself on 'Change,* as a creator of companies, a vender of shares, or a dabbler in foreign stock.
But, notwithstanding his superb egotism and his jealousy of applause, Lemaitre was capable of mocking at himself in a most amusing manner. At one of the last representations of Robert Macaire he expected to be called before the curtain at the end of the play. He was not, however; whereupon he ordered the curtain to be raised and came forward with his gravest air.
She cunningly lets him have your things that she may be left in peace. Her bad faith as a good mother seeks shelter behind her child, your son is her accomplice. Both are leagued against you like Robert Macaire and Bertrand against the subscribers to their joint stock company. The boy is an axe with which foraging excursions are performed in your domains.
But still the nearness of her, the faint perfume of her, shook in his veins, and still he must play the miserable comedy to the end, since the prize he played for was to him peculiarly desirable. "A thief a common thief!" But again her hands fluttered back. "I drove you to it. Mine is the shame." "Holy Macaire! what is a theft or two?
From Punch and Don Juan down to Robert Macaire, Jeremy Diddler and the pantomime clown, he has always drawn large audiences; but hitherto he has been decorously given to the devil at the end. Indeed eternal punishment is sometimes deemed too high a compliment to his nature.
This was Robert Macaire in L'Auberge des Adrets. It is no exaggeration to say that Lemaitre created this part, though this verb is used in our day in very slipshod fashion. Robert Macaire was the creation of Lemaitre, and not of the authors of the play. At the rehearsals he repeatedly declared that the part was "impossible," and that the public would never receive it as the authors had written it.
Robert Macaire is the hero of two favorite melodramas "Chien de Montargis" and "Chien d'Aubry" and the name is applied to bold criminals as a term of derision. "I will place it on her table myself to-night," he murmured. Then taking a passport from his drawer he said, "Good, it is available for two months longer." The Cemetery of Pere-la-Chaise.
That is to say, they do precisely the same thing as Scott's 'Ivanhoe, Scott's 'Rob Roy, Scott's 'Lady of the Lake, Byron's 'Corsair, Wordsworth's 'Rob Roy's Grave, Stevenson's 'Macaire, Mr. Max Pemberton's 'Iron Pirate, and a thousand more works distributed systematically as prizes and Christmas presents.
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