San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-02-20

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contention that the actor should be the mere
cold and tranquil spectator the imitator of
other mems feelings, while possessing none,of
his own. He naturally would have argued.
but would not have it, and made her rest
She was quite worn out by the effort, and 1
do not like this excessive fatigue of hers l
often wonder whether the life she is leading
is not too exciting for her. This is supposed
to be her holiday, and she is really going
through more brain waste than she has ever
done in her life before Paul is throwing
his whole energies into one thing only, the
training OF Miss Bretherton, and he is a man
of forty eight, with an immense experience,
and she girl of twenty one, with everything
to learn. and as easily excited as he is capa-
BILE Of exciting her. l really must keep him
in check
"Mr. Wallace, when we had sent her home
across the canal-their apartment is on the
other side, further up towards the railway
statlon-could not say enough to me of his
amazement at the change in her.
"'What have you done to herr he asked.
i can hardly recognize the old Miss Brother
ton at all Is it really not yet four months
since your brother and | went to see her in
the white Ladyp Why, you have be-
witched herr
1--WE have done something, admit, said;
but the power you see developed in her now
was reused in her when months ago she first
came in contract with the new world and the
new ideal which you and Eustace represented
to her.
There, my dear Eustace, have given
you your duet Oh, Miss Bretherton says SO
many kind things about you! I'll take espe-
,,l
| write
WALLACE TO kendall.
VENICE, Aug. %.
"MY DEAR KENDAL-This has been day
of events which, | believe, will interest you
as much as they did me. told Nine de
Chateauvieux that | should write to you to-
night, and my letter, she says, must do in
place of one from her for a day or two. We
have been to Torcello today-your sister, NJ
de Chateauvieux, Miss Bretherton, and |.
The expedition itself was delightful, but that
have no time to describe. | only want to
tell you what happened when we got to Tor
cello.
But first you will, of course. know from
your sisters letter-sIle tells me she writes to
you twice a week-how absorbed we have all
been in the artistic progress of Miss Brother
ton. myself never saw such change, such
an extraordinary development in any one.
How was it that you and did not see fur
Their into herr | see now, as | look back upon
her old self, that the new self was there in
germ But think perhaps it may have been
the vast disproporUion of her celebrity to her
performance that blinded us to the promise
in her; it was irritation with the public that
made us deliver an over hasty verdict on her.
However that may be, have been max
ing up my mind for some days past that the
embassy on behalf of Elvira which thrust
upon you, and which you so generously
undertook, was a hlunder on my part which
it would be delightful TO repair, and which
no artistic considerations whatever need pre-
vent me from repairing. You cannot think
how divine she was i'll Juliet the other night
Imperfect and harsh, of course, here and
there, but still a creature to build many and
great hopes upon, if ever there was one. She
is shaking off trick after trick; your brother
in-law is merciess to them whenever they
appear, and she is forever working with a
view to his approval, and also, think, from
two or three things she has said, with a
memory of that distant standard of criticism
which she believes to be embodied in you'll
IN. de Chateauvieux has devoted himself
to her; it is pretty sight to see them to-
gether. Your sister and she, too, are in
separable, and Nine. de Chateauvieux's quiet,
equable refinement makes good contrast to
Miss Bretherton's mobility. She will never
lose the imprint of her friendship with these
two people; it was a happy thought which
led you to bring them together.
well, we went to Torcello, and | watched
for an opportunity of getting her alone
At last Nine. de Chateauvieux gave me
one; she carried off her husband, Ruskn
in hand, to study the mosaics, and Miss
Bretherton and l were left sitting under
the outer wall Of San Fosca till they
should come back We had been talk
ing of a hundred things-not of acting
at all; Of the pomegranates, of which she had
a scarlet mass in her lap; of the gray slum-
berous warmth of the day, or the ragged
children who peStered Us for coppers-and
then, suddenly, | asked her whether she
would answer me personal question: Was
there any grudge in her mind toward ME for
anything had said and done in London or
caused others to say and do for me?
"She was much startled and colored a
good deal, but she said very steadily: 4 feel
no sort of grudge; never had any cause
We'll, them | went on, throwing myself
down on the grass before her that | might
really see her expression, If you bear me no
grudge, if you feel kindly towards me, will
you help me to undo a great mistake of
miner
"She looked at me with parted lips and
eyes which seemed to be trying to find out
from my face what | meant. Will YOU
said, hurrying on, will you take from me
"ElVira,n and do what YOU like with itP