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"By no means; the whole letter is filled with an account of the ballet at La Scala, which, according to Caroline, is a thousand times more interesting than Mont Blanc or the Simplon." "One of the immortal works of Vigano, I suppose," said Vivian; "he has raised the ballet of action to an equality with tragedy. I have heard my father mention the splendid effect of his Vestale and his Otello."
Just as the procession was on the point of shoving off from the ship's side, the officers of the Vestale, who had incidentally learned the particulars of Austin's murder, approached in their two gigs, with the French flag floating at half-mast from the ensign-staves in the sterns of their boats, and took up a position in the rear.
"That brig the Vestale, as she calls herself and all connected with her," I answered. "Why, what is there to understand about her? Or rather, what is there that is incomprehensible about her?" he asked sharply. "Everything," I replied eagerly.
'Dans la Vestale j'ai compose un sujet romain, dans Ferdinand Cortez un sujet espagnol-mexicain, dans Olympic un sujet greco-macedonien, enfin dans Agnes de Hohenstaufen un sujet allemand: tout le reste ne vaut rien! He hoped that I was not thinking of the so-called romantic style a la Freischutz?
So Richards shared your suspicions, did he?" "He did, indeed, sir," I replied. "It was, in fact, his extraordinary demeanour on the occasion of our second encounter with the Vestale you will remember the circumstance, sir? which confirmed my suspicions; suspicions which, up to then, I had attributed solely to some aberration of fancy on my part.
"What is the Vestale like?" was Smellie's next question. "Just as like the Black Venus as two peas in a pod," was the reply, given with evident quiet amusement. "And how was she painted?" persisted Smellie. "Ah, there now, stranger, you've puzzled me!" was the unexpected answer. "Why? Did you not say you saw her?" queried Smellie sharply. "No, I guess not; I didn't say anything of the sort.
Not, it must be understood, that I seriously for a single instant associated Monsieur Le Breton or the Vestale with the diabolical act of piracy to the account of which I had just listened.
'La Vestale' was followed in 1809 by 'Fernand Cortez, and in 1819 by 'Olympie, both of which were extremely successful, the latter in a revised form which was produced at Berlin in 1821. Spontini's operas are now no longer performed, but the influence which his music exercised upon men so different as Wagner and Meyerbeer makes his name important in the history of opera.
I was naturally very anxious to see what notice would be taken of this, since the somewhat high-handed course we were taking with the craft had been adopted entirely upon the strength of my representations; and if the brig should, after all, turn out to be the Vestale French gun-brig as she had pretended to be, our skipper might perhaps involve himself in a considerable amount of trouble.
We entered the bay upon the shore of which the town is built about 10 a.m. on the second day after our last meeting with the Vestale, and, anchoring in ten fathoms, lowered a boat, in which Mr Richards and his crew were landed, Captain Vernon going on shore with them. The skipper remained on shore until 4 p.m., and when he came off it was easy to see that he was deeply preoccupied.
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