You may see for yourself one of these playbills in the Carnavalet Museum. It details the players by their stage names only, with the exception of M. Binet and his daughter, and leaving out of account that he who plays Trivelin in one piece appears as Tabarin in another, it makes the company appear to be at least half as numerous again as it really was. It announces that they will open with “Les Fourberies de Scaramouche,” to be followed by five other plays of which it gives the titles, and by others not named, which shall also be added should the patronage5 to be received in the distinguished6 and enlightened city of Nantes encourage the Binet Troupe to prolong its sojourn7 at the Theatre Feydau. It lays great stress upon the fact that this is a company of improvisers in the old Italian manner, the like of which has not been seen in France for half a century, and it exhorts9 the public of Nantes not to miss this opportunity of witnessing these distinguished mimes11 who are reviving for them the glories of the Comedie de l’Art. Their visit to Nantes — the announcement proceeds — is preliminary to their visit to Paris, where they intend to throw down the glove to the actors of the Comedie Francaise, and to show the world how superior is the art of the improviser8 to that of the actor who depends upon an author for what he shall say, and who consequently says always the same thing every time that he plays in the same piece.
It is an audacious bill, and its audacity12 had scared M. Binet out of the little sense left him by the Burgundy which in these days he could afford to abuse. He had offered the most vehement13 opposition14. Part of this Andre–Louis had swept aside; part he had disregarded.
“I admit that it is audacious,” said Scaramouche. “But at your time of life you should have learnt that in this world nothing succeeds like audacity.”
“I forbid it; I absolutely forbid it,” M. Binet insisted.
“I knew you would. Just as I know that you’ll be very grateful to me presently for not obeying you.”
“You are inviting15 a catastrophe16.”
“I am inviting fortune. The worst catastrophe that can overtake you is to be back in the market-halls of the country villages from which I rescued you. I’ll have you in Paris yet in spite of yourself. Leave this to me.”
And he went out to attend to the printing. Nor did his preparations end there. He wrote a piquant17 article on the glories of the Comedie de l’Art, and its resurrection by the improvising18 troupe of the great mime10 Florimond Binet. Binet’s name was not Florimond; it was just Pierre. But Andre–Louis had a great sense of the theatre. That article was an amplification19 of the stimulating20 matter contained in the playbills; and he persuaded Basque, who had relations in Nantes, to use all the influence he could command, and all the bribery22 they could afford, to get that article printed in the “Courrier Nantais” a couple of days before the arrival of the Binet Troupe.
Basque had succeeded, and, considering the undoubted literary merits and intrinsic interest of the article, this is not at all surprising.
And so it was upon an already expectant city that Binet and his company descended23 in that first week of February. M. Binet would have made his entrance in the usual manner — a full-dress parade with banging drums and crashing cymbals24. But to this Andre–Louis offered the most relentless25 opposition.
“We should but discover our poverty,” said he. “Instead, we will creep into the city unobserved, and leave ourselves to the imagination of the public.”
He had his way, of course. M. Binet, worn already with battling against the strong waters of this young man’s will, was altogether unequal to the contest now that he found Climene in alliance with Scaramouche, adding her insistence26 to his, and joining with him in reprobation27 of her father’s sluggish28 and reactionary29 wits. Metaphorically30, M. Binet threw up his arms, and cursing the day on which he had taken this young man into his troupe, he allowed the current to carry him whither it would. He was persuaded that he would be drowned in the end. Meanwhile he would drown his vexation in Burgundy. At least there was abundance of Burgundy. Never in his life had he found Burgundy so plentiful31. Perhaps things were not as bad as he imagined, after all. He reflected that, when all was said, he had to thank Scaramouche for the Burgundy. Whilst fearing the worst, he would hope for the best.
And it was very much the worst that he feared as he waited in the wings when the curtain rose on that first performance of theirs at the Theatre Feydau to a house that was tolerably filled by a public whose curiosity the preliminary announcements had thoroughly32 stimulated33.
Although the scenario34 of “Lee Fourberies de Scaramouche” has not apparently35 survived, yet we know from Andre–Louis’ “Confessions” that it is opened by Polichinelle in the character of an arrogant36 and fiercely jealous lover shown in the act of beguiling37 the waiting-maid, Columbine, to play the spy upon her mistress, Climene. Beginning with cajolery, but failing in this with the saucy38 Columbine, who likes cajolers to be at least attractive and to pay a due deference39 to her own very piquant charms, the fierce humpbacked scoundrel passes on to threats of the terrible vengeance40 he will wreak41 upon her if she betrays him or neglects to obey him implicitly42; failing here, likewise, he finally has recourse to bribery, and after he has bled himself freely to the very expectant Columbine, he succeeds by these means in obtaining her consent to spy upon Climene, and to report to him upon her lady’s conduct.
The pair played the scene well together, stimulated, perhaps, by their very nervousness at finding themselves before so imposing43 an audience. Polichinelle was everything that is fierce, contemptuous, and insistent44. Columbine was the essence of pert indifference45 under his cajolery, saucily46 mocking under his threats, and finely sly in extorting47 the very maximum when it came to accepting a bribe21. Laughter rippled48 through the audience and promised well. But M. Binet, standing49 trembling in the wings, missed the great guffaws50 of the rustic51 spectators to whom they had played hitherto, and his fears steadily52 mounted.
Then, scarcely has Polichinelle departed by the door than Scaramouche bounds in through the window. It was an effective entrance, usually performed with a broad comic effect that set the people in a roar. Not so on this occasion. Meditating53 in bed that morning, Scaramouche had decided54 to present himself in a totally different aspect. He would cut out all the broad play, all the usual clowning which had delighted their past rude audiences, and he would obtain his effects by subtlety55 instead. He would present a slyly humorous rogue56, restrained, and of a certain dignity, wearing a countenance57 of complete solemnity, speaking his lines drily, as if unconscious of the humour with which he intended to invest them. Thus, though it might take the audience longer to understand and discover him, they would like him all the better in the end.
True to that resolve, he now played his part as the friend and hired ally of the lovesick Leandre, on whose behalf he came for news of Climene, seizing the opportunity to further his own amour with Columbine and his designs upon the money-bags of Pantaloon. Also he had taken certain liberties with the traditional costume of Scaramouche; he had caused the black doublet and breeches to be slashed58 with red, and the doublet to be cut more to a peak, a la Henri III. The conventional black velvet59 cap he had replaced by a conical hat with a turned-up brim, and a tuft of feathers on the left, and he had discarded the guitar.
M. Binet listened desperately60 for the roar of laughter that usually greeted the entrance of Scaramouche, and his dismay increased when it did not come. And then he became conscious of something alarmingly unusual in Scaramouche’s manner. The sibilant foreign accent was there, but none of the broad boisterousness61 their audiences had loved.
He wrung62 his hands in despair. “It is all over!” he said. “The fellow has ruined us! It serves me right for being a fool, and allowing him to take control of everything!”
But he was profoundly mistaken. He began to have an inkling of this when presently himself he took the stage, and found the public attentive63, remarked a grin of quiet appreciation64 on every upturned face. It was not, however, until the thunders of applause greeted the fall of the curtain on the first act that he felt quite sure they would be allowed to escape with their lives.
Had the part of Pantaloon in “Les Fourberies” been other than that of a blundering, timid old idiot, Binet would have ruined it by his apprehensions66. As it was, those very apprehensions, magnifying as they did the hesitancy and bewilderment that were the essence of his part, contributed to the success. And a success it proved that more than justified67 all the heralding68 of which Scaramouche had been guilty.
For Scaramouche himself this success was not confined to the public. At the end of the play a great reception awaited him from his companions assembled in the green-room of the theatre. His talent, resource, and energy had raised them in a few weeks from a pack of vagrant69 mountebanks to a self-respecting company of first-rate players. They acknowledged it generously in a speech entrusted to Polichinelle, adding the tribute to his genius that, as they had conquered Nantes, so would they conquer the world under his guidance.
In their enthusiasm they were a little neglectful of the feelings of M. Binet. Irritated enough had he been already by the overriding70 of his every wish, by the consciousness of his weakness when opposed to Scaramouche. And, although he had suffered the gradual process of usurpation71 of authority because its every step had been attended by his own greater profit, deep down in him the resentment72 abode73 to stifle74 every spark of that gratitude75 due from him to his partner. To-night his nerves had been on the rack, and he had suffered agonies of apprehension65, for all of which he blamed Scaramouche so bitterly that not even the ultimate success — almost miraculous76 when all the elements are considered — could justify77 his partner in his eyes.
And now, to find himself, in addition, ignored by this company — his own company, which he had so laboriously78 and slowly assembled and selected among the men of ability whom he had found here and there in the dregs of cities — was something that stirred his bile, and aroused the malevolence79 that never did more than slumber80 in him. But deeply though his rage was moved, it did not blind him to the folly81 of betraying it. Yet that he should assert himself in this hour was imperative82 unless he were for ever to become a thing of no account in this troupe over which he had lorded it for long months before this interloper came amongst them to fill his purse and destroy his authority.
So he stepped forward now when Polichinelle had done. His make-up assisting him to mask his bitter feelings, he professed83 to add his own to Polichinelle’s acclamations of his dear partner. But he did it in such a manner as to make it clear that what Scaramouche had done, he had done by M. Binet’s favour, and that in all M. Binet’s had been the guiding hand. In associating himself with Polichinelle, he desired to thank Scaramouche, much in the manner of a lord rendering84 thanks to his steward85 for services diligently86 rendered and orders scrupulously87 carried out.
It neither deceived the troupe nor mollified himself. Indeed, his consciousness of the mockery of it but increased his bitterness. But at least it saved his face and rescued him from nullity — he who was their chief.
To say, as I have said, that it did not deceive them, is perhaps to say too much, for it deceived them at least on the score of his feelings. They believed, after discounting the insinuations in which he took all credit to himself, that at heart he was filled with gratitude, as they were. That belief was shared by Andre–Louis himself, who in his brief, grateful answer was very generous to M. Binet, more than endorsing88 the claims that M. Binet had made.
And then followed from him the announcement that their success in Nantes was the sweeter to him because it rendered almost immediately attainable89 the dearest wish of his heart, which was to make Climene his wife. It was a felicity of which he was the first to acknowledge his utter unworthiness. It was to bring him into still closer relations with his good friend M. Binet, to whom he owed all that he had achieved for himself and for them. The announcement was joyously90 received, for the world of the theatre loves a lover as dearly as does the greater world. So they acclaimed92 the happy pair, with the exception of poor Leandre, whose eyes were more melancholy93 than ever.
They were a happy family that night in the upstairs room of their inn on the Quai La Fosse — the same inn from which Andre–Louis had set out some weeks ago to play a vastly different role before an audience of Nantes. Yet was it so different, he wondered? Had he not then been a sort of Scaramouche — an intriguer94, glib95 and specious96, deceiving folk, cynically97 misleading them with opinions that were not really his own? Was it at all surprising that he should have made so rapid and signal a success as a mime? Was not this really all that he had ever been, the thing for which Nature had designed him?
On the following night they played “The Shy Lover” to a full house, the fame of their debut98 having gone abroad, and the success of Monday was confirmed. On Wednesday they gave “Figaro–Scaramouche,” and on Thursday morning the “Courrier Nantais” came out with an article of more than a column of praise of these brilliant improvisers, for whom it claimed that they utterly99 put to shame the mere100 reciters of memorized parts.
Andre–Louis, reading the sheet at breakfast, and having no delusions101 on the score of the falseness of that statement, laughed inwardly. The novelty of the thing, and the pretentiousness102 in which he had swaddled it, had deceived them finely. He turned to greet Binet and Climene, who entered at that moment. He waved the sheet above his head.
“It is settled,” he announced, “we stay in Nantes until Easter.”
“Do we?” said Binet, sourly. “You settle everything, my friend.”
“Read for yourself.” And he handed him the paper.
Moodily103 M. Binet read. He set the sheet down in silence, and turned his attention to his breakfast.
“Was I justified or not?” quoth Andre–Louis, who found M. Binet’s behaviour a thought intriguing104.
“In what?”
“In coming to Nantes?”
“If I had not thought so, we should not have come,” said Binet, and he began to eat.
Andre–Louis dropped the subject, wondering.
After breakfast he and Climene sallied forth105 to take the air upon the quays106. It was a day of brilliant sunshine and less cold than it had lately been. Columbine tactlessly joined them as they were setting out, though in this respect matters were improved a little when Harlequin came running after them, and attached himself to Columbine.
Andre–Louis, stepping out ahead with Climene, spoke108 of the thing that was uppermost in his mind at the moment.
“Your father is behaving very oddly towards me,” said he. “It is almost as if he had suddenly become hostile.”
“You imagine it,” said she. “My father is very grateful to you, as we all are.”
“He is anything but grateful. He is infuriated against me; and I think I know the reason. Don’t you? Can’t you guess?”
“I can’t, indeed.”
“If you were my daughter, Climene, which God be thanked you are not, I should feel aggrieved109 against the man who carried you away from me. Poor old Pantaloon! He called me a corsair when I told him that I intend to marry you.”
“He was right. You are a bold robber, Scaramouche.”
“It is in the character,” said he. “Your father believes in having his mimes play upon the stage the parts that suit their natural temperaments110.”
“Yes, you take everything you want, don’t you?” She looked up at him, half adoringly, half shyly.
“If it is possible,” said he. “I took his consent to our marriage by main force from him. I never waited for him to give it. When, in fact, he refused it, I just snatched it from him, and I’ll defy him now to win it back from me. I think that is what he most resents.”
She laughed, and launched upon an animated111 answer. But he did not hear a word of it. Through the bustle112 of traffic on the quay107 a cabriolet, the upper half of which was almost entirely made of glass, had approached them. It was drawn113 by two magnificent bay horses and driven by a superbly livened coachman.
In the cabriolet alone sat a slight young girl wrapped in a lynx-fur pelisse, her face of a delicate loveliness. She was leaning forward, her lips parted, her eyes devouring114 Scaramouche until they drew his gaze. When that happened, the shock of it brought him abruptly115 to a dumfounded halt.
Climene, checking in the middle of a sentence, arrested by his own sudden stopping, plucked at his sleeve.
“What is it, Scaramouche?”
But he made no attempt to answer her, and at that moment the coachman, to whom the little lady had already signalled, brought the carriage to a standstill beside them. Seen in the gorgeous setting of that coach with its escutcheoned panels, its portly coachman and its white-stockinged footman — who swung instantly to earth as the vehicle stopped — its dainty occupant seemed to Climene a princess out of a fairy-tale. And this princess leaned forward, with eyes aglow116 and cheeks aflush, stretching out a choicely gloved hand to Scaramouche.
“Andre–Louis!” she called him.
And Scaramouche took the hand of that exalted117 being, just as he might have taken the hand of Climene herself, and with eyes that reflected the gladness of her own, in a voice that echoed the joyous91 surprise of hers, he addressed her familiarly by name, just as she had addressed him.
“Aline!”
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