Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1853-07-30
q Noble Hearted Actor.

4 series of characters with great effect, had re-
marked every evening in front Of the curtain,
Young person of extreme beauty, who had
watched his playing with an attention III which
it was difficult to believe the motive single
one Our actor knew well that he had inspired
profound passion and he did not hesitate to
respond to it with full heart, although COM
pIetely ignorant who that young and charming
lady was, that night after night cast on him her
burning looks.
In the mentime, wealthy parsonage wished
our actor to put himself to the trouble OF calls
ING at his residence.
"Monsieur,' said the banker, "l have an i'm
mense service to ask you. 1t is to name the
sum that will induce you to leave the city for 4
few years"
To this strange proposition the artist replied
with loud laugh
"What do you think, Monsieur all not
yet at the climax of my reputation and my glory
which are my fortune. | would not leave for
a miIlion!'
swell, offer it to you. Leave and will
instantly count you out a miion-that will
materialize the fumes of glory"
'But, Monsieur, can | know the powerful
motives that induce you to make me such an
offer!'
"Yes, I will tell you. My daughter, my only
daughter, wish to marry to her cousin young
man destined for the highest office in the king
dom. My daughter is fooshly enamoured of
you. lcannot give her to you. 1t is necessary
therefore, that you should leave"
"Monseur," replied the actor, after he had
surmounted the first promptings of his pride 't
that be all, make your mind easy. will not
leave--you will not spend a million; and your
daughter shall marry her cousin
"What do You mean!"
"Detain me for dinner to-day, and place ne
near her."
At first the banker dared not to trust him;
but the actor insisted, and the other yielded.
There were many of the wealthy to partake OF
the dinner; among others, several bankers and
their wives. The guests had already arrived,
and the young lady of the house appeared at
the same time.
But what was the surprise, the chagrin and
regret OF the actor, in recognizing in this young
lady the very one in which he had been so pas
sionately enamored in front of the scenery of
| his theatre.
She, stupifed at seeing him at her father S
stammered out few words and accepted his
arm to go to the table, for the actor was deter
mined, let the consequences be what they might
to keep the promise which he had made to the
father of his lover
And he did keep it., in truth--and so well
that the young lady, on seeing what kind Of a
coarse, abject person OF a clown she had given
her heart to, felt as if it would break. In fact
the actor had caused a thousand Inconvenience,
and concluded by insulting the guests so gross
ly, that most of them were anxious to leave In
a word, the scene became so stirring, that as
soon as dinner was over, the young lady herr
self, indignant and outraged, had the servants
called, and the actor pushed outside the door.
But her cousin, her afianced, arrived in the
evening. He recognized the celebrated actor.
The latter related TO him how he had just bro
ken his own ties, annihilated himself by an
odous role, in an incredible comedy of the bon
ton--he told him the whole affair. The young
lady discovered that she had been duped by an
admirable ruse--that the man she had loved,
and who loved her, had been inundated to the
exigencies of her father. She saw her cousin
no more with pleasure. She detested him from
that time forth, and when pressed to determine
on being married to him she would give way
to her feelings in reproaches and disappear.
The whole of the next day was passed in
despair by the banker, and in uneasiness and
jealousy by the cousin. They finally conclu-
ded that the young lady had gone to join her
lover and they FASTENED to take her from him.
A fact soon proved to them that their suspi-
cions were well founded; then the justices
| were applied TO, in order to have the ravisher
| arrested.
But the artist had not accepted the sacrifice
of the young lady. He avowed his courageous
subterfuge Of the previous evening, and that
he loved his admirer to distraction; but he did
not wish that she should be lost--dishonored.
He catechised her, persuaded her, and brought
her back to her father at the very moment that
the latter was in search Of him. The father
understood the legal better than passionate ex-
preston of this unexpe cted denouement, and
| gradually touched--moved, conquered, it struck
him he could do nothing better than to give the
actor his daughter, be being the most honorable
| and honest man he had ever met.
| swell, who is the hero of this tale?" will pro.
badly be asked. Bressante, Brindeaux, Laten-
tains, or some elegant lover of Gymnasium or
Of the Coincide Franchise?
No. 1t happened to be the actor Garrck,
| who was so much esteemed, that at his death
| his funeral pail was borne by the Duke of De-
vonshire, Lord Camden, Earl Spencer, and
| Viscount Palmerston, followed by fifty mourn
ing carriages, containing the most of the Eng
lish nobility But NJ. Melville, who has made
a comedy out of this anecdote, has attributed
it to George Sullivan, and it is under the title
of Sullivan that the piece obtained, on the lth
of November, at the Theatre Francas, such
brilliant success.