He hails from Orleans, where he has played leading parts in the tragedies of the late citizen Corneille.

But, ah me! I fear that he will find Paris audiences vastly more critical than the good Orleanese.

Did you hear him, citizen, declaiming those beautiful verses just now?
He was murdering them, say I--yes, murdering them--the gaby!" Then only did it seem as if she realised that there was something amiss, that citizen Heron had come to visit her, not as an admirer of her talent who would wish to pay his respects to a successful actress, but as a person to be looked on with dread.
She gave a quaint, nervous little laugh, and murmured in the tones of a frightened child: "La, citizen, how glum you look! I thought you had come to compliment me on my latest success.

I saw you at the theatre last night, though you did not afterwards come to see me in the green-room.

Why! I had a regular ovation! Look at my flowers!" she added more gaily, pointing to several bouquets in vases about the room.