Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1889-03-10

Nine. de OhsteauvieuX, her gray blue
eyes sparkling with expectation and ell
her small, delicate features alive with
interest and animation, was watching for
the rising of the heavy velvet curtain with
an eagerness winch brought down upon her
the occasional mOckery Of her husband who
was in reality, however, little less excited
than herself 1t was but three weeks since
they had parted with Isabel BretbeItOD 10
Paris, and they were feeling on this first
night something Of the anxiety and rescon-
sibility which parents feel when they
launch a child upon whom they have ex
pended their best efforts into a critical
world.
Az for Eustace, he also had but that az
ternOOn arrived in London. He had been
paying long duty visit to some aged rel
atives in the north, and had so heightened
it out, in accordance with the within which
had taken possession of him in SurTy, that
he had missed all the preparations for
'Elvira," ard had arrived upon the scene
only at the moment when the final coup
was to be delivered. Miss BrethertOn had
herself sent him warm note of invitation,
containing an order for the first night and
an appeal to him to come and Judge me
as kindly as truth will let you" And he
had answered he, that, whatever happen
ed, he would be In IA g place in the Cal
Eops on the night of. the Doth Of Noytm-
Der.
Aud rOw here he was, wearing outwaydly
precisely the same aspect of interested eX
peclatiOl as those around him, and all the
time conscious inwardly that to him alone,
OF ali the nun an beiugs in that vas; thea
ire, the experience OF the evening would
ne so vitally and desperately important
that life on the other side Of it would bear
the mark OF it forever. 1t was burden TO
him that his sis er suspected nothing Of
his state OF feeling; 1t would have c0nsOled
him that she should know it, but it seemed
to him impossible to tell her.
There are the Stuarts,' he said, bend
| iug down TO her, as the orchestra struck
up, in the box to the left. Forbes,
suppose, will Join them when it begins.
am told he has been working like horse
for this play. Every detail in it, they say,
is perfect, srtisiically and historically, and
the time of preparation has been excep-
tionally short. Why did she refuse to be-
gin again with the White Lady, to give
herself more time?n
Il cannot tell You, except that be had a
/ repognsrc9 30 il which could not be 20.
over. believe her associations with the
I play we're so painful that it would have
seemed an evil omen 20 her to begin new
season with it. O."
"Wss she wise, I wonder
81 think she did well to 'ollow her fancy
in the matter, and she herself has had
plenty of time. She was working at it all
the weeks she was with us, and young
Harting, too, think, mad notice enough.
Some OF the smaller parts may 20 roughly
tonight, bat they will soon fall into
shape"
poor Wallace said Kendall, che must
be wishing it well over. l never saw a
house better stocked with critics"
Here he is" crisd Nine. de Chateau
vieux, betraying her suppressed excitement
in her nervous little start. "Oh, Mr.. Wal
lace, now do you do? and now are things
going?"
Poor Wallace threw himself into his
seat, looking the picture OF misery so far
as his face, which Nature had nodded in
one of her cheeTfulest moods, was capable
of it.
'My dear Nine. de Chatsauviesux,
have no more notion than tie man
in the moon. Miss BrethertOn is an
angel, and without Forbes she
should have collapsed a hundred
times already, and that's about all l know.
As for the other actors, Isupp)se they Will
get through their parts somehow, but at
present I feel like man at the foot Of the
gallows. There goes the bell; now for It, "
The sketch for the play Of "Elvira' had
bsen found among the papers of a young
pennils IS Italian who had died, almost Of
starvation, in his Roman garrett, during