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"You know, I owe you a grudge," he said, interrupting Barroux. The other looked at him in astonishment. "And why, pray?" he asked. "Why, because you never helped me in the matter of that friend of mine who wishes to make her debut in 'Polyeucte." Barroux smiled, and with amiable condescension replied: "Ah! yes, Silviane d'Aulnay! But, my dear sir, it was Taboureau who put spokes in the wheel.
And then as Silviane, as if flattered, pressed closely beside him, the deputy added: "So that wonderful revival of 'Polyeucte, in which you are going to have such a triumph, is to take place on the day after to-morrow. We shall all go to applaud you, remember."
"You know, I owe you a grudge," he said, interrupting Barroux. The other looked at him in astonishment. "And why, pray?" he asked. "Why, because you never helped me in the matter of that friend of mine who wishes to make her debut in 'Polyeucte." Barroux smiled, and with amiable condescension replied: "Ah! yes, Silviane d'Aulnay! But, my dear sir, it was Taboureau who put spokes in the wheel.
He referred to a stubborn caprice of Silviane d'Aulnay, who, although she had hitherto only reaped a success of beauty on the stage, obstinately sought to enter the Comedie Francaise and make her debut there in the part of "Pauline" in Corneille's "Polyeucte," which part she had been studying desperately for several months past.
Much of the music is tuneful and attractive, though cast in a stiff and old-fashioned form, and the masquemusic in the second act is as fresh and melodious as anything Gounod ever wrote. In 'Polyeucte' he attempted a style of severe simplicity in fancied keeping with Corneille's tragedy.
However, that did not hinder her from being superb the other evening at 'Polyeucte'." "So you only go to see 'Polyeucte'?" said Jacqueline, making a little face as if she despised that opera. "Yes, I have seen it twice. Mamma lets me go to 'Polyeucte' and 'Guillaume Tell', and to the 'Prophete', but she won't take me to see 'Faust' and it is just 'Faust' that I want to see.
Meanwhile the Dean consulted with Kitty and resumed: "Lady Kitty will recite a scene from Corneille's beautiful tragedy of 'Polyeucte' the scene in which Pauline, after witnessing the martyrdom of her husband, who has been beheaded for refusing to sacrifice to the gods, returns from the place of execution so melted by the love and sacrifice she has beheld that she opens her heart then and there to the same august faith and pleads for the same death."
His last opera, "Polyeucte," produced at the Grand Opera, October 7, 1878, though credited with much beautiful music, and nobly orchestrated, is not regarded by the French critics as likely to add anything to the reputation of the composer of "Faust."
The article in question was one written in advance, from the society point of view, on the success which Silviane would achieve in "Polyeucte," that evening, at the Comedie. The journalist, in the hope of pleasing her, had even shown her his "copy"; and she, quite delighted, now relied upon finding the article in print in the most sober and solemn organ of the Parisian press.
However, that did not hinder her from being superb the other evening at 'Polyeucte'." "So you only go to see 'Polyeucte'?" said Jacqueline, making a little face as if she despised that opera. "Yes, I have seen it twice. Mamma lets me go to 'Polyeucte' and 'Guillaume Tell', and to the 'Prophete', but she won't take me to see 'Faust' and it is just 'Faust' that I want to see.
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