And a success it proved that
more than justified all the heralding of which Scaramouche had been
guilty.
For Scaramouche himself this success was not confined to the public.
At the end of the play a great reception awaited him from his
companions assembled in the green-room of the theatre. His talent,
resource, and energy had raised them in a few weeks from a pack of
vagrant mountebanks to a self-respecting company of first-rate
players. They acknowledged it generously in a speech entrusted to
Polichinelle, adding the tribute to his genius that, as they had
conquered Nantes, so would they conquer the world under his guidance.
In their enthusiasm they were a little neglectful of the feelings
of M. Binet. Irritated enough had he been already by the overriding
of his every wish, by the consciousness of his weakness when opposed
to Scaramouche. And, although he had suffered the gradual process
of usurpation of authority because its every step had been attended
by his own greater profit, deep down in him the resentment abode to
stifle every spark of that gratitude due from him to his partner.
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