Mje revienne saluer. Moi aussi, je voulais revenir remercier le public de son attention, de sa bienveillance, de son émotion. Je revins.
Voici ce que dit John Murray dans Le Gaulois du 5 juin 1879 :
Aussi, lorsque rappelée à grands cris, Mlle Bernhardt a reparu, épuisée par ses efforts et se soutenant sur Mounet-Sully, lui a-t-on fait une ovation que je crois unique dans les annales du Théâtre en Angleterre.
Le lendemain, le Daily Telegraph terminait sa merveilleuse critique par ces lignes :
Clearly Mlle Sarah Bernhardt exerted every nerve and fibre and her passion grew with the excitement of the spectators, for when, after a recall that could not be resisted the curtain drew up, M. Mounet-Sully was seen supporting the exhausted figure ot the actress, who had won her triumph only after tremendous physical exertion and triumph it was however short and sudden.
Le Standard finissait son article par ces mots :
The sybdued passion, repressed for a time until at length it burst its bonds, and the despairing, heart broken woman is revealed to Hippolyte, was schown with so vivid reality that a scene of enthousiasm such as is rarely witnessed in a theatre followed the fall of the curtain. Mlle Sarah Bernhardt in the few minutes the was upon the stage (and coming on it must be remembered to plunge into the middle ot a stirring tragedy) yet contrived to make an impression which will not soon be effaced from those who were présent.
