In the other characters she was the true French girl, full of grace and a mixture of _naivete_ and cunning, sentiment and frivolity, that is winning and _piquant_, if not satisfying.

Only grief seems very strange to those bright eyes; we do not find that they can weep much and bear the light of day, and the inhaling of charcoal seems near at hand to their brightest pleasures.
At the other little theatres you see excellent acting, and a sparkle of wit unknown to the world out of France.

The little pieces in which all the leading topics of the day are reviewed are full of drolleries that make you laugh at each instant.

_Poudre-Colon_ is the only one of these I have seen; in this, among other jokes, Dumas, in the character of Monte-Christo and in a costume half Oriental, half juggler, is made to pass the other theatres in review while seeking candidates for his new one.
Dumas appeared in court yesterday, and defended his own cause against the editors who sue him for evading some of his engagements.

I was very desirous to hear him speak, and went there in what I was assured would be very good season; but a French audience, who knew the ground better, had slipped in before me, and I returned, as has been too often the case with me in Paris, having seen nothing but endless staircases, dreary vestibules, and _gens d'armes_.