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The soul of a great old nation adopts all such contrivances as in the past it has adopted new weapons, or new modes of conveyance. Only a Hottentot or a Cook's Tourist can consider such superficial developments as evidences of "change." There are, of course, some new theatres though I have heard of no new great actor or actress.
It's the absence of intervals, of a fond or background, that I don't comprehend. You're an embroidery without a canvas." "Yes perhaps," the girl replied, her head on one side as if she were looking at the pattern of this rarity. "But I'm very honest." "You can't be everything, both a consummate actress and a flower of the field. You've got to choose." She looked at him a moment.
I'll run away and become an actress or a nun I don't care much which. They're both romantic, and they are what people always do in such cases at least I have read a great many novels where they did!" mused Miss Danton, still making her circle round the fish-pond.
"So delicate, my lord, that I think the sooner she withdraws from it the better it will be." "You do! It is the to that end, then, I presume, that you have treated her with so much scorn and contempt?" said his lordship angrily. "My lord, with all my faults, I am no hypocrite; and with all my accomplishments I am no actress." "What do you mean by that, my lady?"
"You will understand better your own present situation. I assure you it will be a help to you toward freeing yourself. I don't ask you to believe I only ask you to listen." Edith again bowed. "I will tell you all, then. I was an actress in London; my name was Fortescue. I was a celebrity at Covent Garden. It was there that I first met Captain Dudleigh.
I always thought she would have good luck." "Well, well, what of her?" "The Prince di has taken a prodigious fancy to her, and has carried her to his own palace. The Court is a little scandalized." "The villain! by force?" "Force! Ha! ha! my dear signor, what need of force to persuade an actress to accept the splendid protection of one of the wealthiest noblemen in Italy?
The Colonel, who had then asked of Maggie license to relieve his mind of a couple of letters for the earliest post out on the morrow, was addressing himself to this task at the other end of the room, and the Princess herself had welcomed the comparatively hushed hour for the bridge-players were serious and silent much in the mood of a tired actress who has the good fortune to be "off," while her mates are on, almost long enough for a nap on the property sofa in the wing.
The girl paused and looked away to the river as if she saw it all again, and then added in a burst of confidence: "Do you know, I mean to be an actress some day, when mamma will let me." "Play-actors are wicked," said Phil, in a tone of decision; "our minister says so, and my uncle says so." "Fudge!" returned Celia. "Much they know about it. Did Alice say so?"
Silvio Pellico wrote in classical form a tragedy, Laodicea, and then, following the national or romantic school, for a famous actress of that time, another tragedy, Francesca di Rimini, which was received with great applause.
He hesitated, opened his lips, closed them again and, looking at the fire, "Oh yes, very new indeed new to me." "Is it here?" The great surgeon looked about the picture-covered walls. "No; I have it in you know what you call the inner sanctuary the light here is not good enough." The actress stood up, her glittering dress flashing a thousand eyes at the fire. "Let me see it," she commanded.
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