She had witnessed that terrible last act twenty times before, but she never wearied of it.

Neither would she have consented to see it acted by any other than the great Italian.

Whatever be the merits of the play, there can be no question as to its supremacy of horror in the hands of Salvini.

To us of the latter half of this century it appears to stand alone; it seems as if there could never have been such a scene or such an actor in the history of the drama.

Horrible--yes! beyond all description, but, being horrible, of a depth of horror unrealised before.