New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-04-18
Chesuey Void.

L0Gy HOnOra, vile OF Sr LetceSter Dedo-
lock, is a strong character, according to
Dickens. her creator. From his hand she
came the embodiment of a cold pride,
naughty and supercillious Indifference, dis
dainful in her secret shame and agony.
She is the ideal of a fashionable woman as
the world now calls her. moving among the
Tom noodles of arlstocratic society
queen, not subject. TulkinghOra is
lawyer with great requirements, fondness
for garnering secrets of aristocratic families.
Sir Leicester loves his wife with all his
heart and soul, because she hatters Ills
pride, honors him by her majesty if she
does not love him; her slightest wish
his greatest thought; her whims his law.
He waits upon her like one of his
own lackeys, and moves about in society
like lion drawn by silken string. These
characters are as they were created. When
my lady, on the reading of a chancery doc
ument by TuMinghOra in the presence OF
old DedlocA;, utters an exclamation, "Who
wrote that :" the foxy lawyer muffies his
surprise, but sets out on the hunt to lind
out who did write it. he succeeds. 1t was
decaved wreck Of his former self, who
was once an acquaintance OF Honorla be-
fore she became Lady Dedloch, and who,
God knows, ought to have been her hus-
band" BY this man she had one child,
daughter, who grew up ignorant OF her
parentage. Here was secret for a
woman to keep, and still be lead
er of fashionable, lordiy life. How
the consciousness of deceit must have
beset her whenever the fond old Dedloch,
proud of the forty generations that had
gone before him, lavishes his respect and
veneration upon his wife, and who stands
| bareheaded when she sails by. Proud as
she is, her heart yearns for her old love,
and III the disguise of Hortcnsc, her waiting
| maid, she visits his tumble-down abode.
| The Door law writer dies out Of the story
| soon enough, but the soul OF my lady is
tortured by the apprehension that the law
yer knows her secret In the disguise
she visits tie rotting cemetery, where
tender corporation has deposited
his remains Her jewels betray he1
! in the end. 10, whose name ls long
enough for him." saying, when Horte"se
stands before him, - 1t is the gownd, but
not the hand" 81 parking with rings as il
was, HorteraSe, the French waiting maid
employedA by Tuskinghor,, to work up the
case, quarfels with her employer, and vows
revenge. She is dismissed also by my lady
and the leeal gentleman deeming it best tt
let my lady know he knows her secret, tells
her story before the assembled guests Of ole
Dedlock. The cat is out OF the bag. She
in secluded room, entreats him to tell th'
whole story, and spell the names but III
gets shy as she grows coaxing, and inform
her he won't do it, The night she visits hi
office to entreat him not to postpone the re
cital he is killed-shot through the heart
and a first class funeral follows his remain
to the grave the very next day. Who kille'
him. 1t is but one of the natural traits o
novel writing to develop mystery like thu
when the author gets hold Of one; in fact
this mystery constitutes the whole story
the chancery litigation and the great suit 0
Jsrndyce and Jarndyce being another tai
woven into "Chesney Wold."
The drama differs from the plot involves
in the story Of Bleak House. But the ac'
ing Of Janauschek showed that the creatlo
of Dickens was thoroughly understood an
, appreciated as well. The woman who cal
+ ried her dread secret under a mask OF II
3 different pride and scorn, and was resolu'
to the very last, was impersonated la'
nirbt to ouoh a 1eUree that the audlenc
held by their own sympathies that the pl
e ture mrrored, were silent as death an
!. breathed hard as when afflicted with II
miseries and sorrows of the unfortuna
Y mistress of "Chesney Wold." Before M
Tulkinghorn who is so Jealous in beha