The Romance of a Poor Young Man

Maude Adams plays Christine and is the granddaughter of a blind peasant. Manuel, a penniless French Marquis, takes over as superintendent of some property and ends up falling in love with Marguerite, the daughter of the Laroque family which owns the property. He truly loves her but another man, Bevannes, wants to marry her for her money.

It ends up, though, that Manuel is the real owner of the property and ends up marrying Marquerite.

One scene Maude Adams plays is when she goes to visit Madame Laroque and tells how her dog fell into the water and Manuel rescues him. The other scene is where she is with a group of girls and is supposed to make a speech at Marquerite's wedding but she can't get the speech down and she leaves.

The following is about the author of the play.

=====The Theatre Handbook: And Digest of Plays Book by George Freedley, Bernard Sobel; Crown Publishers, 1940=====

Feuillet, Octave (1821-1890). French author and dramatist. Born at St. Lô in La Manche, he became an assistant to Dumas père . Elected to the Academy in 1862, he was later made librarian at Fontainebleau.

His comedies are marked by their sentimentality and include: The Man of Success; The Romance of a Poor Young Man, 1859; The Sphinx, 1881; Led Astray, adapted by Dion Boucicault from his La Tentation , 1873.