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So different was the look of noble reticence it wore from that of the conventional type of American actress, that while she gazed at it Virginia found herself asking vaguely, "I wonder why she went on the stage?" The woman was not a pretty doll she was not a voluptuous enchantress the coquetry of the one and the flesh of the other were missing.
But he had his tongue under such control that he was able presently to say instead of this and it was a relief to him to give audible voice to the reflexion "It's a great mistake, either way, for a man to be in love with an actress. Either it means nothing serious, and what's the use of that? or it means everything, and that's still more delusive." "Delusive?" "Idle, unprofitable."
The actress he had in mind was Laura Seymour, then appearing at the Haymarket under the management of Buckstone; and this visit proved to be the turning-point in Reade's whole life. Laura Seymour was the daughter of a surgeon at Bath a man in large practise and with a good income, every penny of which he spent.
I shall be dignified some day some day! But you see I must make it possible myself, since nobody has done it for me." "Well, then, I'll alter my complaint. Why should you play with your sincerity?" "I didn't play with it," she flashed; "I abandoned it. I am an actress."
A compliment in time is a heart-stimulant with no acetanilid reaction. Also he told her how wonderful she had been in the past, recalling by its name and by the name of its French author many a gown she had worn, as one would tell a great actress what roles he had seen her in. He clothed her with praise and encouragement, threw a mantle of crimson velvet about her.
Undo the door to the Lady Lochleven She shall meet her match in art, though not in perfidy. Fleming, draw close the curtain, and get thee behind it thou art a better tire-woman than an actress; do but breathe heavily, and, if thou wilt, groan slightly, and it will top thy part. Hark! they come.
"I am not an Inspector," snapped Smith, "and you know it well enough. You have one chance your last. To whom were you to deliver the box? when and where?" But the blue eyes remained upraised to the grim tanned face with a look of wonder in them, which, if assumed, marked the woman a consummate actress. "Who are you?" she asked in a low voice, "and what are you talking about?"
It seemed quite natural that they should live 'en union libre', since they loved each other, and not weaken by legalities the strength of those that attached them to this child. But the mother is an actress, as I have told you, and wished her daughter to receive all the sacraments that the law and the church can confer. She managed so well that poor Nougarede yielded.
There is a feeling of black melancholy about your letter, dear actress; you are gloomy, you are fearfully unhappy but not for long, one may imagine, as soon, very soon, you will be sitting in the train, eating your lunch with a very good appetite.
"It is the celebrated Euphrosyne," said he, "who from the stage was very near mounting a throne." M. de Tourville left the miniature in the hands of the ladies to be admired, and, addressing himself to Mr. Percy, began to tell with much mystery the story of Euphrosyne. She was an actress of whom the prince, heir apparent at the German court where he resided, had become violently enamoured.
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