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    ROSE CHERI. 199

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    « Rose Cheri.

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    therefore more a at her non-appearance ymnase , be very great ; and , to make matters -worse , the directors had not the time to publish a

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    althoug assigned h her sev , en which hours to an ly inexperienced remained But supp to when y prepare gir told l was what the role eas she the y ma director tt to do to

    lish in so short a time . was , Hose accomp at first seemed to hesitateand then expressed her conviction that she would not fail . One of , the directors , to make good her dresses used to be thrown

    p romise , locked her up in a room where old , that and , gave in a hurry her a of few that rolls kind of , heavy spongy meals bread wasted on which time to and din blunted e , adding all

    the th what tude at perceptions the and was manager int equall ellect . y ' s At essential and deputy seven she , pronounced the more its part spirit dead was was Rose than committed so to alive thoroug be , a went to wonder hl memory y off conceived to of , dress _aj and ) ti- , ,

    preparatory to going , throug , h the terrible ordeal that was set before her who . felt She deep mi ly ght interested probabl in y have the blue failed -eyed had and not flaxen the -haired tiring debutante woman , ,

    said to her" You are sure of success ; but you must , above all , be courageous irl , , such for opportunities and if don th 't drop are once every let day slip into so m the any _waj hungry r of a

    young mouths g are waiting as you to ; receive them ey that they never , come again . " But the ringing of the bell ' put an end to thi drawn s colloquy . The

    curtain was about to riseand before it was up M . Leon Monvalthe istrar of the , Gmnasewho had the reputation of

    , regy , man being in what Paris our " came cousins forward across the announcing Atlantic for woul the d call first _" time the sm the artest

    inof disposition the audience of , Mademoiselle for the youthful Nathalie debutante , and — claiming for such the he forbearance called Rose

    si Cizos gned — to thinking oblivion that . The as the tidings Estelle were of a few received weeks with back much , she was discon con - -

    tentand the audience did not altogether credit the assurance that the , young unknown could supply the place of a well-known / The and

    latter favorit when she e predominated actress spoke . she Some . was A hissed so timid natural - ; looking oth , ers so touehin ingenue cried " g astonished jbFimporte l came y simp forward le , and " and , dis but the - much fine sensibilitthat all were ;

    p astonishment layed so , warmed into admiration y , when the curtain fell amidst

    Rose Cheri. 199

    ROSE CHERI . 199

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1861, page 199, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111861/page/55/