THE NIGHT WATCH.
François Coppêe.
(Illustrated by Tableaux Arranged Expressly for the Preston Library by the Author of “Preston Papers.”)
Characters and Costumes:--Irene in Nun’s dress, with silver cross, and ring, as suggested in the poem; she should be tall, slight, and pale, with black hair--which is covered by a white wig for the last tableau; the wounded officer, in regimentals for first tableau, on a cot after that (any soldier uniform with gilt lace and epaulettes will do;) the valet, an old man in servants’ livery; the doctor, in a business suit; the postman, in uniform, with mail-bag.
Soon as her lover to the war had gone,
Without tears[tears] or common-place despair,
Irene de Grandfief, a maiden pure