Basque had succeeded, and, considering the undoubted literary merits
and intrinsic interest of the article, this is not at all surprising.
And so it was upon an already expectant city that Binet and his
company descended in that first week of February. M. Binet would
have made his entrance in the usual manner - a full-dress parade with
banging drums and crashing cymbals. But to this Andre-Louis offered
the most relentless opposition.
"We should but discover our poverty," said he. "Instead, we will
creep into the city unobserved, and leave ourselves to the imagination
of the public."
He had his way, of course. M. Binet, worn already with battling
against the strong waters of this young man's will, was altogether
unequal to the contest now that he found Climene in alliance with
Scaramouche, adding her insistence to his, and joining with him
in reprobation of her father's sluggish and reactionary wits.
Metaphorically, M. Binet threw up his arms, and cursing the day on
which he had taken this young man into his troupe, he allowed the
current to carry him whither it would.
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