Excerpt from The Court of Charles IV: A Romance of the Escorial
In short, my mistress liked the works of Comella, though latterly, in view of the discredit into which this divinity of the boards had fallen, hurling him into misery fiom the very summit of his popularity, she did not dare own it in the face of literary or fashionable people. As I had the opportunity of learning from hearing her con conversation and noticing her choice of books, she liked such plays as had a good deal of bustle of entrances and exits, military reviews, hungry children crying for the breast, a grand scene of a large square with a tri umphal arch on one side, bearded personages such as Irish, Russians or Scandinavians, and the style of writing which gave the heroine such speeches in a critical situation as: A living statue I, of ice! Or: Revenge, I must feign! Hatred, we must dis semble! Cunning, favor my hopes l.
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