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"Here, too!" the actress exclaimed with a laugh that rippled charmingly under the white skin of her throat. "You are getting to be my shadow. In the market place, on the road, everywhere! I find you every time I look around!" She accepted the bouquet of violets from the young man's hand, inhaling their fragrance with evidence of keen enjoyment.
But stay till you're asked stay till you're asked that's the etiquette; never till then let me hear public virtue come out of your lips, else you'll raise suspicion of your virtue, and lower your price. What would you think of a pretty actress who began to talk to you of her reputation before you put it in any danger?
Lucy thereupon refused the journalist's escort home and sent him back shrilly to his "strolling actress." At this Rose turned round immediately and hissed out a "Dirty sow" by way of answer.
Out in the wilds he becomes a child of nature, simple and clean and elemental as the trees around him or the stars above him. I think of one prospector whose range was at the headwaters of the Athabaska. In the dance-halls he had married a cheap variety actress.
'And what has become of this actress? 'You saw her to-night? 'Was she acting in the piece we saw to-night? 'It was she who played Lady Macbeth. 'You are joking. 'No, I'm not. I always knew she had genius, and they have found it out; but I must say they have taken their time about it. 'How wonderful! she has succeeded! 'Yes, she has succeeded!
And so for ten days the failure went on in the newspapers, backward and forward, now hopeless, now relieved, now sunk in endless complications, and fallen into the hands of the lawyers who could be trusted with the most equitable distribution of the property involved, until the reading public were glad to turn, with the same eager zest, to the case of the actress who was found dead in a hotel in Jersey City.
At one of the rehearsals many people were moved to tears as they looked at her, and said that she was the first actress in Russia to-day; but at the first performance she was affected by the general attitude of hostility to my "Seagull," and was, as it were, intimidated by it and lost her voice. Our press takes a cold tone to her that doesn't do justice to her merits, and I am sorry for her.
When it would have been in the way at the supper of an actress, in the levees of a court, in the boudoir of a beauty, in the arena of the senate, in the intrigue of the cabinet you would not have observed a seam of the good old garment.
Yes, it was true. He, too, was but a hireling. But he would become a Master; he would go back back to the Ghetto, and this noble Jewess should be his mate. Thank God he had kept himself free for her. But ere he could pour out his soul, the bouncing San Franciscan actress appeared suddenly at his elbow, risking a last desperate assault, discharging a pathetic tale of a comedian with a cold.
This violence is all most repulsive:" and so, no doubt, she felt it. I was a precocious actress in her eyes; she sincerely looked on me as a compound of virulent passions, mean spirit, and dangerous duplicity. Bessie and Abbot having retreated, Mrs. Reed, impatient of my now frantic anguish and wild sobs, abruptly thrust me back and locked me in, without farther parley.
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