His Lordship's Mistress by Joan Wolf

Author:Joan Wolf
Language: por
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

raised his head, and her gray eyes, burning and intent in her proud, determined face, held his relentlessly.

I have given suck, and know

How tender ‘tis to love the babe that milks me

She paused and then went on, no anger in her voice now. It was clear and cold and truthful.

I would, while it was smiling in my face,

Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums

And dashed the brains out, had I so sworn as you

Have done to this.

Beside him Linton could hear the shocked intake of Bertram’s breath. Lord George’s knuckles were white as he gripped the front of the box. On the stage Gar-reg began to waver.

If we should fail?

An enchanting smile lit Jessica’s face.

We fail?

But screw your courage to the sticking place,

And we’ll not fail.

The tension in the theatre was thick and palpable. On stage the last of Macbeth’s objections fell and his own ambition answered forth to his wife’s. They stood together, two passionate, proud people in the intensity of their fixed purpose, their two young, formidable faces looking for the moment strangely alike.

When the curtain came down on Act I there was at least one full minute of stunned silence before the applause began.

The remainder of the play was of the same caliber. There wasn’t a person present at that performance who didn’t remember it vividly for the rest of his life: the first and only time Jessica O’Neill played Lady Macbeth. Lewis Garreg would play Macbeth many more times, and he always gave a powerful, moving performance, but never again would there be that electricity in the air, that knowledge that one was watching what the Morning Post would call the next day “one of the finest pieces of acting we have ever beheld, or perhaps that the stage has ever known.”

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