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TOMMASO SALVINI
fresh and unconventional, but of a charac-
ter strongly based in purity, intelligence,
and refined sensibility, — an ideal daugh-
ter of England, emotional, yet dignified
and self-contained; the anxious, restless
attention, crossed by shame and disgust,
with which she watched the actor in the
early moments of his pretended intoxica-
tion was a triumph of the eloquence of
attitude and facial expression, interestingly
followed by the voluble passion of her
oral appeal to his nobler soul. Signora
Piamonti's Delilah, though kept at every
moment entirely within the lines prescribed
by good taste and propriety, exhibited
Samson's mistress and destroyer like some
flaming flower of the voluptuous East, in-
carnadined in tint, heavy with aromatic
odors, intoxicating to the sense of man, —
the hireling slave of passion, yet almost
redeemed at the last by the violent access
of her remorse and self-loathing. Her
final rejection of the Philistines' reward
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