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94 * Theleader. [Saturday ^
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LILIAN GERVAIS . Well , for a good wholesome bit of morality commend me to a Frenchman ! He lmows the very trick of it . He has the healthiest sympathies with what is upright , noble , strong ; and he has no misgivings . ' Marie Simon , the drame which delighted Paris last autumn , ( translated by Mr . Morris garnet , and produced at the Olympic , under the title ^ of Lilian Gervais , ) is truly a " dainty dish to set before the moralist ; " it cannot have the pretension of being " set before the critic "—he would make sad havoc with it . Lend me your moral ears awhile , and I will recount the molivi of this drame . Lilian is as pretty and virtuous as a dramatic peasant is obliged to be , and , of course , her father is on the eve of ruin . If there were no intolerable bores of fathers always on the eve of ruin , what would dramatists do P You at once divine that there is a young gentleman ready enough to step forward , and save the said father . And , although this young gentleman wears the uniform of a common soldier , you never for an instant doubt that he is a nobleman in disguise . Latet anguis 1 Lilian and Adolphe love each other . But it soon appears that the gay young Adolphe ' s intentions are " strictly ^ honourable , " and a moralizing lawyer , M . Bomard , after upbraiding him , threatens , unless he consent to give up his infamous design , to inform the girl's father . Bomard rides the high horse with considerable powers of moral equitation , until Adolphe asks him if lie never felt the passion of love ; whereat the lawyer is , according to a stage direction , " embarrassed ; " and , although Adolphe only knows that Bomard loves somebody , yet this moral Bomard descends from his high horse , and consents to be silent , to " save the honour of a lady . " It no longer seems necessary to save the honour of poor Lilian ! Lilian , however , has overheard enough of their conversation to understand AdolpheV intentions , and she flies to the Chateau de Henneville , ( pertinaciously pronounced Shat-tb de JRanville , ) where she is taken into the Marquis ' s service ; the late Marchioness was her godmother . Adolphe soon appears there ; he is the son of the Marquis . And here occurs a love-scene , not by any means unprecedented on the stage , but totally unlike anything I ever heard of in real life . By the way , how is it that love-scenes are always so monstrously unlike life ? How is it that the accomplished roue , whom " no woman can resist , " according to his own and other persons testimony , always endeavours to capture a heart by means that would ensure a box on the ears , or a loud shout for " police ! " Why do young gentlemen of an engaging turn of mind always lock the doors , and raise their voices , as if they were going to take by violence the heart they are endeavouring to persuade ? Is violence the coquetry of passion ? I never found it so . It is true Maria threw the Milk Jug at my fond head , ( as I once narrated , ) but I always interpreted that amenity as temper , not love . It is true , also , that your Australian
autocthones (" not to put too fine a point on it , " ) begin courtship by stunning the objects of their affection . That plan however is scarcely admissible within the regions of sentiment And I have still to earn why stage lovers are so Australian . But let that pass . Adolphe Jocks the doors , and Lilian , of course , throws herself on her knees ; findmg that dramatic position ineffective , she draws from her pocket a J ^ -T * . ^ his mother ' s , —and the sight of it cools the fiery torment of his brain at once , condensing all his steam to ice ! He becomes sentimental , repentant , virtuous . "My mother ! " . . How fond the French are of those bits of sentiment ! Precisely because a Frenchman is the last man in the world to be stopped in his profligacy by any such talisman , the dramatist employs it , certain of its success . Ma mere ! At the thought of " her who taught his mfant steps to walk , " cambric is in immediate requisition ! ,,,. - i Lilian escapes this peril only to fall into another . The old Marquis has married again , and his young wife loves " clandecently" the moral lawyer whom we made acquaintance with in the first act . They are botk extremely virtuous people , but they nevertheless plan an elopement . Ihe Marquis discovers it . You imagine , perhaps , that he storms , shoots Bomard , or turns Madame out of doors . Not at all . The Marquis sait vivre , in other words , he determines to die . To " save his wife s name from infamy , " this excellent old gentleman quietly poisons himselt in tne garden . C'est d ' un bon mari ! Only a " model husband" could have such consideration for the feelings of his wife . I think I could name a lew families where that example , if followed , would meet with decided approbation . But , in general , husbands have " so little feeling "—they prefer living '; cest on ne peut plus bourgeois , mais enfin cest comme ^ ca . The guilty pair stumble over the corpse , and Lilian is accused of the murder ; accused , moreover , with the harshest violence by Adolphe , who vows he will bring her to justice : one might demur to the lover s want of belief in , or , at least , sorrow for Lilian , but a young gentleman so devoted to the memory of his mother , cannot be expected to take the murder of his father quietly . How Lilian is tried , condemned , and finally acquitted , I leave you to learn at the theatre , if you are curious . For , absurd and inartistic as Lilian Gervais is , there is a certain dramatic progression , and a few strong situations , which carried the piece triumphantly through , amid loud applause . Much of this was due to the acting of the young dSfaitcmte , Miss Anderton , who , though still very young , is a " decided acquisition to the London boards , " ( I believe that is the correct phrase . ) Miss Anderton has some defects which time and study will remove ,- —defects especially of pronunciation , which , at times , is stagey , and at times provincial ; but she has three primary requisites , —intelligence , feeling , and naturalness . In the passages of emotion she was quite successful ; in the earlier and in the quieter scenes , she was less mistress of her means , - although something of this was doubtless attributable to nervousness . Compton raised abundant mirth , but it was by burlesque , not by acting . It is true he had the meagrest of " low comedy" jokes to utter . The wittiest passage was—his letting the crockery fall ; not a novel joke , but always a safe one ! V ivian .
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A Fine Young English Gentleman . —Tt was impossible to make Ralph comprehend and appreciate his position , as he was desired to comprehend and appreciate it . The steward gave up in despair all attempts to enlighten him about the extent , value , and management of the estates he was to inherit . Then , a vigorous elfort was made to inspire him with ambition ; to get him to go into Parliament . He laughed at the idea . A commission in the Guards was next offered to him . He refused it , because ho would never be buttoned up in a red coat ; because he would submit to no restraints , fashionable ; or military ; because , in short , lie was determined to be his own master . My father talked to him by the hour together , about his duties and his prospects , the cultivation of his mind , and the example of Ills ancestors—and talked in vain . Ho yawned , and fidgetted over the emblazoned pages of his own family pedigree , whenever they were opened before him . In the country , he eared for nothing but hunting and shooting—it was as difficult to make him go to a grand county dinner-party , as to make him go to church . In town , lie haunted the theatres , behind the scenes as well as before !; entertained actors and actresses at Richmond ; ascended in balloons at Vauxhall ; went about with detective policemen , seeing life among pickpockets and house-breakers ; belonged to a whist club , a supper club , a catch club , a boxing club , a pic-nic club , an amateur theatrical club ; and , in short , lived such a careless , convivial life , that my father , outraged in every one of his family prejudices and family refinements , almost ceased to speak to him , and saw him as rarely as possible- Collins'b liasil . A " (» K'NTK'iJi / ' DlUWJNCI-RooM . —On my arrival at North Villa , I was shown into what I presumed was the drawing-room . Everything was oppressively new . The briU ' mntly-varnished door cracked with a report like a pistol when it wan opened ; the paper on the walls , with its gaudy pattern of birds , trellis-work , and dowers , in gold , red , and green on a white ground , looked hardly dry yet ; the showy window-curtains of white and sky-blue , and thti still showier carpet of red and yellow , seemed as if they had como out of the shop yesterday ; the round rosewood table was in u painfully high Htute of polish ; the morocco-hound picture hooks that lay on it , looked as if they hod never been moved or opened since they bad been bougfit ; not one leaf even of the music on the piuno was dogs-eared or worn . Never was a richlv-iunuBliod . room iiioro thoroughly
comfortless than this—the eye ached at looking round it . There was no repose anywhere . The print of the Queen , hanging lonely on the wall , in its heavy gilt frame , with a large crown at the top , glared on you : the paper , the curtains , the carpet , glared on you ; the books , the wax-flowers in glass-cases , the chairs in flaring chintz-covers , the china-plates on the door , the blue and pink glass vases and cups ranged on ^ he chimney-piece , the over-ornamented cheffoniers with Tonbridge toys und long-necked smelling bottles on their upper shelves , all glared on you . There was no look of shadow , shelter , secrecy , or retirement in any one nook or corner of those four gaudy walls . All surrounding objects seemed startling near to the eye ; much nearer than they really were . The room would have given a nervous man the headache , before he had been in it a quarter of an hour . —Collins's liasil .
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 22, 1853, page 22, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_22011853/page/22/
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