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Updated: May 28, 2025
Something unusual was going on at Rosehaven. Awnings were spread over the lawn, gay colored lanterns were strung all about the grounds, and a stage for outdoor tableaux had been built near the house, where a dark clump of cedars served as a background.
A grand surprise awaited. A tableaux was in preparation. When the drawing-room was partially darkened the curtain rose, showing a simple background, with two children of the family sleeping quietly in the foreground. Standing over them was Helen Douglas; her hair fell over her shoulders. She wore a black dress, while a black lace veil, spangled with gold stars, covered her from head to foot.
The night of the tableaux was the last one, when she had strolled down the moonlighted paths with him at The Beeches, and he had insisted that it was the "glad morrow" by his calendar, and time for her Sir Feal to tell her many things, especially as he was going away for the rest of the summer on a long yachting trip, and somebody else might tell her the same things in his absence.
Gustave entered L'Ecole des Beaux Arts and became quite a noted artist, coming out in the Salon of 1857 with the painting 'L'Obole de Cesar'. He also exhibited a little later various 'tableaux de genre': 'Buffet de chemin de fer' , 'A la Sacristie' and 'Un Succes de Salon' , 'Monsieur le Cure, vous avez Raison' and 'Un Froid Sec' .
Either the performance of the Greek tableaux or the presence of the little girl who had so dominated him during the years they had spent together at the Gray House made Billy dazed and speechless. There was no need, however, that he should use any intelligence save to do what Lucy commanded. Her dark eyes sparkled with a brilliant excitement, her rose cheeks glowed.
"What is going on, Daisy?" "Preston has been getting up some tableaux, Dr. Sandford, to be done by the young people." "Are you one of the young people?" "They have got me in," said Daisy. "Misled by your appearance? What are you going to play, Daisy?" Daisy ran off to a table and brought him a little bill of the performances. The doctor ran his eye over it.
Aunt Vi, being the kindest soul in the world, promised to do what she could. She gave the play of the "Pied Piper of Hamelin," with children for rats; and Eddo was dressed as a mouse, and squealed so perfectly that Edith's cat could hardly be restrained from rushing headlong upon the stage. Later there were tableaux. Edith wore red, white, and blue and was the Goddess of Liberty.
Leo Tolstoy might well have lived in a tub or carried a lantern by day, like the most sensational and theatrical of the ancients. He is only a past master of réclame, of the art of advertising. The Moujik blouse and those delightful tableaux of a real nobleman shoemaking and haymaking make his books sell. That is all.
He will have his 'transient hieroglyphics, his tableaux vivants, his 'dumb-shows' to aid him here also, because this, too, is for the spectators this, too, is for the audience whose eyes are more learned than their ears. It is a natural hero, one who achieves his greatness, and not one who is merely born great, whom the Poet deals with here.
It is rich in palms and ferns, and contains a monument of art to Madame Jerichau, the sculptress, in the shape of a group of bathing girls. Meanwhile, whatever amusement is to be the order has by this time commenced: perhaps it is music the ladies of the family are all good musicians perhaps it is tableaux vivants, or possibly a carpet dance.
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