I have always disliked to see death represented on the stage.

Rachel's representation was awful! I could not take my eyes from the scene, and I held my breath in horror; the death was so much to the life.

It is said that she changes color.

I do not know that she does, but it looked like a ghastly hue that came over her pale face.
"I was displeased at the constant standing.

Neither as Greeks nor as Frenchmen did they sit at all; only when dying did Rachel need a chair.
They made love standing, they told long stories standing, they took snuff in that position, hat in hand, and Rachel fainted upon the breast of some friend from the same fatiguing attitude.
"The audience to hear 'Adrienne' was very fine.