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penditure on purchasing were every on the thing same 1 that scale caug as ht yours my fancy * suppose , and of indul tliat ged ? I insisted every
caprice " Well that , my came dear into , if nay you head did , what , we would should become have more us " debts / 7
hu cooll sband But y , rep sorel ' s lied extravagant y her as impracticable Madame expenditure Talma spouse ' , s other equanimity . sources was of to annoyance undermine tried by , and her the
happ of a yet iness more of a serious union character whose commencement , were not wanting had seemed so auspiciousCourted sideand exposed to the seductive
manoeu-. on every , infidelities vres of the fairest to his and wife most met cap with tivating less coquettes tolerant forbearance of his day , Ta on lma her _'s The
halcyon part , than days she that had had accorded followed to their Ms pecuniary marriage short were -comings succeeded . by
reconciled storms and however disasters , previous ; and at to length the death they of separated the great . tragedian They were .
whom Madame she , also Talma survived subsequentl , and has y now married been the for many Comte years de Chalot again ,
a widow She has . written a work on the art of which she was formerly those who
so are distinguished studying for the a votary stage , , abounding together with in of useful the some life advice interesting and labors to reminis of her
father cences , of to Talma whom , , as and alread a brief y remarked notice , she was tenderly attached _, and whose memory she cherishes with file utmost affection . and
Madame lexion which de Chalot must is once small have , with been regular very fine features ; her , eyes are a com still - bri p htand her facewhen animated , lights up with a vivacity of
g , , expression She has all which the ease at once and takes aplomb thirty of a years woman accustomed from who her to has appearance receive ming the led .
widel adulation y with and the homage world , addressed and has , been even more assiduously in the period of her prime than in our own dayto the " queens of the
drawing awake" -loom would ; " suffice her glance to distinguish especially her , so as calm , one , p iercing has , " p and layed wide an
active , and authoritative part in the conventional sphere of social existence . Her voice , notwithstanding her beautiful great age , is clear , pure word ,
and sonorous ; her diction remarkably . Every comes ciated from that her it li seems ps , simp to present ly without , as effort it were , yet , a so chiselled perfectly outline
enunto specimen generations It the was ear not of - her was without declamatory induced some by persuasion our charming but , that ielding the hostess survivor at length to give of to three us the a
united slihtl entreaties the back of all of present a chair powers , Madame recited , de the y Chalot famous rose scene , and , between resting
Arsinoe gy on and Celimenein the . third , act of MolieWs " Misanthrope . _" , and
The grace , meekness , irony , and earnestness of her delivery ,
268 A Rare 0ld-Lady.
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1859, page 268, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121859/page/52/
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