Andromaque , in Les Caprices de Marianne , in Phèdre , was one of those famous spectacles which my imagination had so long desired. I should enjoy the same rapture as on the day when in a gondola I glided to the foot of the Titian of the Frari or the Carpaccios of San Giorgio dei Schiavoni, were I ever to hear Berma repeat the lines beginning,

“On dit qu’un prompt départ vous éloigne de nous, Seigneur⁠—”

“On dit qu’un prompt départ vous éloigne de nous, Seigneur⁠—”