Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1889-03-03

III.
dear Eustace; l spare you any moro of (;
verbatim. After | had talked away for
long time, and brought it all back 10 N,
absolute necessity that she should know
French and become acquainted with FrercI
acting and French dramatic ideals Oh,
pulled me up in the full career of elo
quence by demanding with little practi
Cal air, a twinkle lurking somewhere il
her eyes
"'Explsin to me, please, how it is 10 b,
done?' " ~
cob, said, nothing is easier. Dc
you know anything at alp
Z" livery little. I once had terms le.
sons at Kingston
livery well, then, went on, erioyinp
this little comedy Of neglected education
get French maid, French master and !
novel; will provide you with "Consuelo't
and a translation tomorrow
Gas for the French maid, che answer.
ed, obviously, shaking her head, 4 dom,
know. expect my cid black woman that
l brought with me flom Jamaica would IN
treat her-perheps murder her. But the
master can be managed and the novel
Will none of you laugh at me if you see me
trailing French grammar about?p
And so she has actually begun to-day.
She makes o pretense of keeping her novel
and little dictionary and grammar in a
bag and hides them when any one appears.
Bat Paul has already begun to tease her
about her new and mysterious occupation.
and l foresee that he will presently spend
the greater part of his mornings in teach
ing her. never saw anybody attract him
so much she is absolutely different from
anything ne has seen before; and. as he
Gays, the mixture of ignorance and genius
in her-yes, genius; don't be startled ia
nest stimulating TO the Imagination"
August -
During the last few days l have not
hesn seeing so much of Miss BrstheIton az
before. She has been devotiDg herself to
her family and Paul and have been do
ing our pictures. We cannot persuade
her to take any very large dose Of galleries
it seems TO me that her thoughts are set
on one subject-and one subject only-and
while she is in this first stage of intensity
it is not likely that anything else will
have chance.
at is amusing to study the dissatisfac-
ton Of the uncle and aunt with the turn
things have taken sincs they left London.
Mr.. Worrall has been evidently accustom-
ed to direct his niece's life from top to
bottOm-tO choose her plays for her,
helped by Mr.. Robinson; to advise her az
to her fellow-actors and behavior in sOci-
ETY., and all, of course, with a ehIewd eye
to the family profit and as little regard as
need be to any fantastical conception OF
art.
Now, however, Isrbel has asserted her
self in several unexpected ways She has
refused altogether to open her autumn
season with the play which had been
nearly decided on before they left
LondOn-a fimsy spectacular per
Torrance, quite unworthy Of her. As
soon as possible she will make important
charges in the troupe, WHO are to be with
her, and at the beginning of September she
is coming TO stay three weeks with Us in
Paris, and, in all probability Though the
world is to know nothing OF it,, PeTault
of the ConservatoiIe, who is great friend
of ours, will give her a good deal of psi
tive teaching. This last arrangement is
particularly exaspera!ipg to Mr.. Warrall.
He regards it as sure to be known, ride
ulOus confession of weakness on IsabePs
part. ard 20 on. However, in spite of his
wrath and the auut's s1llen or fearful dis
approval, she has stood firm, and matters
are so arranged
Saturday night, August %.
''This evening we persuaded her st last
10 give us some scenes Of Juliet. How I
wish you could have been here. 1t wss
one Of those experiences which remain with
one as a sort of perpetual witness to the
poetry which life holds in il, and may
WELD up to one at any moment. It vas
in our little garden; the moon was high
above the houses opposite, and the narrow
canal running past our side railing into
the Grand canal was shining streak Of
silver. The cir YVES balmy and absolutely
still; no more pc fact setting to Stake
speare or 20 Juliet could have been IN
sgined. Paul aat at a little table in front
OF the rest of us; he WAS to read Romeo and
the Nurse in the scenes she had chosen,
while in the background we're the Worralls
and Lucy Bretherton the little crippled
sister. Mr.. Wallace and myself. She DID
the balcony scene, the morning scene with
Romeo. the scene with the Nurse after Ty-
balUs death, and the scene of the Philter.
There is an old sandal in the garden,
which caught the N, onbesms. She leaned
her arms upoa it, her eyes fixed upon tbs
throbbing, mooulit sky, her white brocaded
dress glistening here and there in the palt
light-a vision Of perfect beauty. And whe1
sire began her signing appeal
o. Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou, Romeo p
if seemed to me as # the night-the pas
sionate Italian night-had ound its yoic'
the only voice which fitted II.
Afterwards I tried rs much as possible
10 shake off the impressions peculiar to the
scene itself, to think Of her under the ordi'
nary conditions Of the stage, to judge heI
purely as an actress In the love scenes
there seemed hardly anything to find iaulI
with. I thought l could trace in many
places the influence of her constant
dramatic talks anu tAtlCloSo WIN 4 60
The flow of passion was continuous and
electric, but marked by all the simpleness,
all the sweetness, all the youpg winsom'
extravaganza which belong to juliet
The great scene with the Nurse has many
fine things in If; she had evidently worked
hard at it line by line, and that speech o.
Juliet's with its extraordinary dramatic
capabilities
Shall speak i'll Of him that is my husband.
WAS given with admirable variety ant
suppleness of intonahon. The dreary
sweetness Of her
Banished, that one word oanished.
still lives with me, and her gestures es sh'
passed restlessly along the little strip o
moonlit path. The speech before she take
the notion was the least satisfactory of all
the ghastliness and horror of it are beyond
her resources as yet; she could not inius'
them with that terrible beauty which Dss
forets would have given to every line. Bu
where is the English actress that has eve