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"What is it, Esperance?" "Nothing, nothing." "Was that not Talma, down there, and Mlle. Clairon and Mlle. Mars, and Rachel, that magnificent, expressive masque there ... look?" Mounet-Sully came in. Esperance still seemed in a dream. "Your pardon, master, the atmosphere of glory that one breathes here has intoxicated me a little."
"The Comedie-Francaise finds itself in the most awkward quandary. We have prepared a big gala performance at La Monnaie, to raise money for all those poor Belgian sufferers." "Oh! I have seen the notices," said Esperance, "with artistes of the Comedie, even in the smaller roles. What would I not give to see that production!" Mounet-Sully smiled.
You slip 'dolsy far nienty' or something about Danty or logarithms somewhere into your play, where it won't delay the action much, and he'll be for you." Canby nodded and laughed eagerly. Tinker seemed to take it for granted that "Roderick Hanscom" was to be produced in spite of "another play I have been considering." "There aren't any critics, I tell you!" Potter stormed. "Mounet-Sully!"
Afterwards he acceded to my request. But his order-loving mind and his taste for symmetry made him anxious about Mounet-Sully, who was also playing in the piece. He was accustomed to seeing Mounet-Sully and me playing the two heroes, the two lovers, the two victims. How was he to arrange matters so that we should still be the two something or other? Eureka!
There was in the play an old idiot named Vestaepor, who was quite unnecessary for the action of the piece, but had been brought in to satisfy Perrin. "Eureka!" cried the director of the Comedie; "Mounet-Sully shall play Vestaepor!" Equilibrium was restored. The god of the bourgeois was content. The public was decidedly in my favour, in spite of everything and everybody.
Everybody on the stage knew about it, and stood at the door of my dressing-room wishing to comfort me, Mounet-Sully, who was playing Hippolyte, told me that he had dreamed "we were playing Phedre, and you were hissed; and my dreams always go by contraries so," he cried, "we shall have a tremendous success."
I next appeared as Junie in Britannicus, with Mounet-Sully, who played admirably as Nero. In this delicious role of Junie I obtained an immense and incredible success. Then in 1873 I played Cherubin in Le Mariage de Figaro. Croizette played Suzanne, and it was a real treat for the public to see that delightful creature play a part so full of gaiety and charm.
The countess was beginning to wake again. "And Moliere? What of his 'Misanthrope? There is a finished, a human, a possible Hamlet! a Hamlet with flesh and blood," cried out the younger count on her right. "Even Mounet-Sully could do nothing with the English Hamlet." "Ah, well, Mounet-Sully did all that was possible with the part. He made Hamlet at least a lover!"
The Comedie was much embarrassed, for the usual understudy of the indisposed actress was an amiable echo, with little talent. Mounet-Sully thought immediately of Esperance and obtained permission to make whatever arrangements he could with her. His arrival at the Darbois home occasioned great excitement. "I claim your indulgence in the name of charity, Monsieur," he said to Francois.
A little startled at finding five people in the room, Mounet-Sully regained his assurance as he recognized Jean and Maurice. "My dear child, we rehearse at two-thirty," he said to Esperance, "so be prompt, because we have heard that the Queen will be there, though you may not see her. She is not well enough to come out in the evening." The young girl blushed with excitement.
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