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Evening Star, Issue 12882, 3 August 1906, Page 4

What an iTI-omened title for a play! ' Ah! le bon billet qu' aLa Chatre!' (&iys a correspondent in a Home paper). The Jfarquis de la Chatre pestered Ninon to give him a bond. He was no love-sick wooer, but had for a few days—and in such matters, that constituted an epoch in the lady's life—been her favored swain. Struck by the absurdity of his request, she was. for laughing him out of it. But :t was no good, so she signed what was really in her case, and so the reverse ofShylock's, the " merry bond." By all the vows which no one was less likely than herself to keep, she had to promise in writing never to love anyone but this mad favorite of he hour. There was no pretence on her part of seriousness, so when his successor came into his bonne fortune the absurdity of it all so tickled her that, in the very apogee of their ecstasy, she cried out. again and again: "Ah! le bon billet qu' aLa Chatre!" (so much for La Chatre's compact). In all other matters she was the very soul of honor; but all was fair in love to her if ever it was to any woman. One of our Restoration dramatist, a Congreve, say, could alone have put her on the stage in her habit as she lived. To make her the centre of a romantic play is all a mia- i take.

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