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Isabelle's modest grace and refined beauty, Serafina's more brilliant charms, the soubrette's sparkling vivacity and bewitching coquetry, the superb extravagances of Captain Fracasse, the tyrant's majestic mien, Leander's manly beauty, the grotesque good humour of the pedant, Scapin's spicy deviltries, and the duenna's perfect acting had taken Paris by storm, and their highest hopes were likely to be realized.
When she tried to rise her trembling knees had nearly given way under her, and but for the soubrette's kind support she must have fallen to the floor.
After her training she might fill a soubrette's part acceptably for a few years, but Miss Pritchard sighed when she tried to look beyond that. To her it seemed like a limited outlook with a closed door blocking the way at a point long before the age when one's career should have reached the apex.
"The most racy, mischievous role imaginable," said Herode warmly, "and she plays it to perfection it is her chef d'oeuvre. She is always applauded to the echo in it." At this high praise from the manager, Zerbine for such was the soubrette's name tried her best to get up a becoming blush, but in vain.
His prophetic mind projects the snares which will bring them all to his feet. He will buy this soubrette's secrets. A French maid's greed and Punic faith can be counted on always. With trembling fingers he tears open the cipher reply from his spy. He reads with flaming eyes: "Have seen girl; very knowing. Says she can tell you something worth one hundred thousand francs. Will not talk now.
After arranging the necessary preliminaries, the marquis, who had meantime surreptitiously squeezed the soubrette's hand under the table, rose, called his dogs together, put on his hat, waved his hand to the company in token of adieu, and took his departure amid much barking and commotion going directly home, in order to set on foot his preparations to receive the comedians on the morrow at his chateau.
Tartuffe was the after-piece; but neither the spirit and perfection of the acting, nor the pretty face and plump shoulders of Elmire, nor the soubrette's dimpled arms, nor the ingénue's innocent eyes, nor the noble, witty lines that filled the theatre and roused the audience to fresh attention, could stir his spirit that hung entranced on the lips of a tragic heroine.
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