Counsel me, Eulalie; counsel, and, if possible, comfort me.

ISAURA.
FROM THE SAME TO THE SAME.
No letter from you yet, and I have left you in peace for ten days.
How do you think I have spent them?
The Maestro called on us with M.
Savarin, to insist on our accompanying them on a round of the theatres.
I had not been to one since my arrival.

I divined that the kind-hearted composer had a motive in this invitation.

He thought that in witnessing the applauses bestowed on actors, and sharing in the fascination in which theatrical illusion holds an audience, my old passion for the stage, and with it the longing for an artiste's fame, would revive.
In my heart I wished that his expectations might be realized.

Well for me if I could once more concentrate all my aspirations on a prize within my reach! We went first to see a comedy greatly in vogue, and the author thoroughly understands the French stage of our day.