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Carlo Ammiani had to communicate that he had just seen a black circle to Vittoria's name on two public playbills. His endeavour to ape a deliberate gravity while he told the tale, roused Agostino's humouristic ire. 'Round her name? said Agostino. 'Yes; in every bill. 'Meaning that she is suspected! 'Meaning any damnable thing you like. 'It's a device of the enemy.
Among playgoing folk, in the following April there was a great deal of talk about the marriage of that very favourite actress, Mrs. Morton. She appeared in the playbills as Mrs. George Hotspur, late Mrs. Morton. Very many spoke of her familiarly, who knew her only on the stage, as is the custom of men in speaking of actresses, and perhaps some few of these who spoke of her did know her personally.
"Twenty years elapse between Acts II and III," the playbills said unblushingly, and the fact is that what most men sow at twenty they reap at forty; the twenty years do elapse between the acts. The curtain that goes down on Robert Lucas in his room at Tambov rises on Robert H. Lucas in New York, with the passage of time marked on him as clearly as on a clock.
Carlo Ammiani had to communicate that he had just seen a black circle to Vittoria's name on two public playbills. His endeavour to ape a deliberate gravity while he told the tale, roused Agostino's humouristic ire. 'Round her name? said Agostino. 'Yes; in every bill. 'Meaning that she is suspected! 'Meaning any damnable thing you like. 'It's a device of the enemy.
The light shone upon the playbills on an adjacent wall; the theatres were open. I looked at the trees as I passed. They were playing Hernani at the Theatre des Italiens, with a new tenor named Guasco. The Place de la Bastille was frequented, as usual, by goers and comers, the most peaceable folk in the world.
But the next day there appeared to be brighter prospects, the playbills announcing at every corner, on the town-pump, and awful sacrilege! on the very door of the meeting- house, an Unprecedented Attraction!
Well, I entertained my aged admirer with a pretty little impromptu "romance," "got up expressly for the occasion," as the playbills have it; and he religiously believed every word of it though, of course, it contained not one single word of truth in it.
But the playbills showed her nothing inviting and she was forced to go away to her work with the money burning her pocket and all manner of wild schemes floating in her head. At noon, instead of going home to dinner, she went and took an ice, trying to feet very gay and festive all by herself.
It had never, however, appeared on the playbills of the theatres; except once, when, at a benefit matinée, the great John Pilgrim, whom to mention is to worship, had recited verses specially composed for the occasion by Alfred Doxey. 'And the signature, dear? Geraldine glanced up at her husband, offering him a suggestion humbly, as a wife should in the presence of third parties.
He had never appeared gayer or been handsomer. The last number but one was a dance by a new danseuse, who, it was stated in the playbills, had just come over from Russia. According to the reports, the Russian court was wild about her, and she had left Europe at the personal request of the Czar. However this might be, it appeared that she could dance.
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