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CHARLOTTE CUSHMAN
act, has been discussed till the theme is
trite, and Mrs. Siddons's interpretation of
the scene and of its most famous line has
been enforced, I suppose, upon her suc-
cessors. The great daughter of the house
of Kemble may, perhaps, have made the
attack upon Wolsey, in
To you I speak,"
" Lord Cardinal,
more prepotent and tremendous than it
was possible for her transatlantic sister-in-
art to make it; but it is not to be be-
lieved that any player could have sur-
passed Miss Cushman in the unstudied
eloquence of the appeal of the wife and
mother to the hard heart of the Royal
Voluptuary, who sat " under the cloth of
state," his big red face, as Mademoiselle
de Bury says, almost " bursting with blood
and pride."
It was in the second scene of the fourth
act that Miss Cushman's genius and art
found their loftiest and most exquisite ex-
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