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"Did I not tell you? browner and more impudent; but tell me," said she, resuming her sly, satirical tone, "how is it that you, who used to be the pink of courtesy, dance and sing over the wreck of my fortunes?" "Because they are not wrecked." "I thought I told you my specie is gone down in the Tisbe." Ipsden. "But the Tisbe has not gone down." Lady Barb. "I tell you it is." Ipsden.
"I esteem you more and more," said he. "You ought, for it has been a hard struggle to me not to adore you, because you are so improved, mon cousin." "Is it possible? In what respect?" "You are browner and charitabler; and I should have been very kind to you mawkishly kind, I fear, my sweet cousin, if this wretched money had not gone down in the Tisbe." "Hallo!" cried the viscount.
"God bless ye, sir, and send ye many happy days, and well spent, with the pretty lady I see alongside; asking your pardon, miss, for parting pleasanter company so I'll sheer off." And away went the skipper of the Tisbe, rolling fearfully. Imagine his surprise! Her ladyship was in tears. "Dear Barbara," said Lord Ipsden, "do not distress yourself on my account."
"Ah!" squeaked Lady Barbara, unused to such interjections. "Gone down in what?" said Ipsden, in a loud voice. "Don't bellow in people's ears. The Tisbe, stupid," cried she, screaming at the top of her voice. "Ri tum, ti turn, ti tum, tum, tum, tiddy, iddy," went Lord Ipsden he whistled a polka. "I have heard it at a distance, but I never saw how it was done before. It is very, very pretty!!!!"
She appeared also in certain of the characters originally contrived for Mademoiselle Mais, such as La Tisbe in Victor Hugo's "Angelo," and the heroines of Dumas's "Mademoiselle de Belle Isle" and of "Louise de Lignerolles" by MM. Legouvé and Dinaux. The classical drama of France has not found much favor in England and America.
The one defect acknowledged by his biographer was his partiality for women. Early in life he married Tisbe, of the noble house of the Brescian Martinenghi, who bore him one daughter, Caterina, wedded to Gasparre Martinengo. Two illegitimate daughters, Ursina and Isotta, were recognized and treated by him as legitimate.
In 1745 Gluck visited England where he produced 'La Caduta de' Giganti, a work which excited the contempt of Handel. In the following year he produced 'Piramo e Tisbe, a pasticcio, which failed completely.
"That ye are, and as smart a one as ever tied a true-lover's knot in the top; but tell the truth you were never nearer losing the number of your mess than that day in the old Tisbe." Lady Barb. "The old Tisbe! Oh!" Ipsden. "Do you remember that nice little lurch she gave to leeward as we brought her round?" Lady Barb. "Oh, Richard!" Ancient Mariner.
Last, not least, was the Chapel of S. John the Baptist, attached to the Church of S. Maria Maggiore, which he endowed with fitting maintenance for two priests and deacons. The one defect acknowledged by his biographer was his partiality for women. Early in life he married Tisbe, of the noble house of the Brescian Martinenghi, who bore him one daughter, Caterina, wedded to Gasparre Martinengo.
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