New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-01-18
sTANzAs FROM THE GERMAN.
i .I i d .i
My heart, I bid thee answer
How are loveis marvsIs wrought
Two hearts To one pulse beating.g
Two spirits to one thought y
And ten me how love coueth J
+ " rof1es-uusought---unsent ~
And tell me how love goeth
THAT was mt Lsre that rent ~


imagined, I was often weary to exhaustion, even
during he performance On one occasion my
fatigue very nearly placed me in predicament
as awkward to rae as it would have been anus
ing to the audience We were fulfilling long
engagement at Nibl6s. ! was playing Lady
Teazle in the School for Scandal When Lady
Ieazle, at the announcement Of Sir Peter is
concealed behind schreen in Joseph Surfaces
library, she is compelled to remain q quarter
OF an hour, or perhaps twenty minutes, in this
confinement / was dreadfully fatigued, and
glad of the opportunity to rest. There was no
chair. At first knelt for relief. Becoming
tired of that position, quietly laid myself down.
and regardless of Lady Teaz1es ostrich plumes,
made pillow Of my arms for my head. list
ened to Piacides most humorous personation
Of Sir Peter for while; but gradually his
voice grew more and more indistinct, melting
into soothing murmur, and then was heard
no more. / fell into a profound slumber
When Charles Surface is announced, Sir Peter
IS hurried by Joseph into the closet. Lady
Teazle according to Sheridan) peeps from be-
hlnd the screen, and intimates to Joseph the
propriety of locking Sir Peter in, and proposes
her own escape. At the sound of Charles Sur
faces step she steals behind the screen again
The cue was given, but no Lady Teazle made
her appearance. She was slumbering in happy
unconselousness that theatres were ever insti-
tuted
Mr.; Jones, the prompter, supposing that
had forgotten my part, ran 70 one Of the wings
from which he could obtain view behind the
screen. To his mingled diversion and conster-
| nation, he behela Lady Teazle placidIy sleeping
1 upon the floor. OF course, he could not reach
| her have often heard him relate the frantic
manner N which he shouted, in an imploring
stage whisper, " Mrs. Mowatt, wake up! For
goedness sake. wake upl Charles Surface is
JUST gong to pull the screen down Wake up!
l on IL oe caught by the audience asleep Wake
| up! Good gracious, do wake upt''
| have some confused recollection Of hearing
the words s. wake up wake upt'' ASH opened
my heavy eyes, they fell upon Mr.. Jones. ma
KING the most violent gestieulations, waving
| about his prompt book, and almost dancing in
| the excitement Of his alarm The hand Of
Charles Surface was already on the screen. L
| sprang to my feet hardly remembering where
| was, and had barely time to smooth down my
| train when the screen fell. A moment sooner,
| and how would the slumbering Lady Teazle,
suddenly awakened, have contriyed to impress
| the audience with the sense of her deep eontri-
| tion for her imprudencei how persuaded her
husband that she had discovered her injustice
| TO him during her present nap! Mrs. MoWatts
Autobiography.
1 BALzAc's MARRtAGE.-M Balzac, the French
novelist, exhibits another example of eecentrici-
4 ty IN matrimonial affairs. According to a
Il aiiaiah correspondence % an EngllSh paper, the
| arrival of this celebrated author from Germany
caused an immense sensation in certain circles,
| owing to the romantic circumstances connected
| with his marriage. When Balzac was at the
zenith Of his fame, ne was travelling in Switzer-
| land, and had arrived at the inn just at the
| very moment the Prince and Princess Hanski
were leaving it. Balzac was nshered into the
| room they had just vacated, and was leaning
| from the window to observe their departure,
| when his attention arrpgtni bv snftxr ica
| at his elbow, asking for q book which had been
| left behind upon the window-sea The lady
was certainly fair, but appeared doubly so in
the eyes of the poor author, when she intimated
that the book she was in quest of was the pock-
ct edition of his own works, adding that she
never travelled without it, and that without it
| she could not exist She drew the volume
from beneath his elbow, and flew down stairs,
obedient to the screaming summons of her hus-
banda pursy old gentleman who was already
seated in the carriage, railing in a loud voice
against dilatory habits of women in general
and his own spouse in particular; and the en-
blazoned vehicle drove off, leaving the novelist
in state of self complaeency the most enyia biz
to be conceived.
This was the only occasion upon which BaIzac
and the princess Hanski had met, till his visit
to Germany. when he presented himself as he1
accepted husband. During these long interven
ing fifteen years, however, a literary correspon
! dence was steadily kept up between the parties
till at length, instead of letter containing
literary structures upon his writings, missive
| of another kind, having a still more directly
J personal tendency, reached him from the fail
, hand of the princess. 1t contained the an.
J nouncement of the demise of her husband the
prince--that he had bequeathed to her his do.
5 mains and his great wealth. and consequently
that she felt bound to requite him in some meas
ure for his liberality, and had determined upon
} giving him successor in the person of Balzac.
1t is needless to state that the delighted author
needed not a second summons; they were forth
with united in wedlock, at her chateau on the
Rhine, and a succession of splendid fetes cele-
brated the auspicious event.
RETIREMENT AND DEATH OF QuN-0n the
/ 10Th of May, l751, blr. Quin performed Hora.
, ito, in the sFair Penitent," and with thai
, character concluded his performance as al
hired actor. He now put in execution his plar
| of retiring to Bath, but came to London the tws
succeeding years to perform Falstaff, for tn.
benefit of his old friend, Ryan. His last mp
pearanee on the stage was on the 10Th of March
1853, on which night the stage, pit, and boxes
were all mt the advanced price Of five shilIings
The next year, finding himself disabled in som
| measure by the loss of his teeth from RENEWING