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It seems to me a fault of proportion, however, that he should shift his locality from Paris to the Riviera, and should place the brief duologue in a romantic woodland scene. An act of anticlimax should be treated, so to speak, as unpretentiously as possible. To invent an elaborate apparatus for it is to emphasize the anticlimax by throwing it into unnecessary relief.
His finger nails and his skin, his hair and his mustache showed that the young chemist did not disdain the use of the cosmetics that lay so ready to his hand. The duologue was brief. "Hello, old chappy. So you're going to be my new landlord?" "Not much." "What's that?" "Some error of my wife's, I fancy." "As I understand it Mrs. Ransome's let me two rooms, and I've taken them." "That's right.
Daventry was to lie on the sofa and overhear a duologue between her husband and his mistress: the only puzzle was to understand why the guilty pair should neglect the precaution of looking behind the screen. As a matter of fact, Mrs. Daventry, before she lay down, switched off the lights, and Daventry and Lady Langham, finding the room dark, assumed it to be empty.
She was still too young to draw joy from the memory of joy, and what Greatorex had told her seemed incredible. She said to herself, "Is it going to be taken from me like everything else?" And a dreadful duologue went on in her. "It looks like it." "But it was mine. It was mine like nothing else." "It never had anything for you but what you gave it." "Am I to go on giving the whole blessed time?
"What what do you mean? I was just going upstairs." "No, you don't. You've got to come and prompt. That devil Blake has vanished. I'll wring his neck! Come along." Spennie went, reluctantly. Half-way through the duologue, the official prompter returned with the remark that he had been having a bit of a smoke on the terrace, and that his watch had gone wrong.
"I have listened," said Vane in a clear voice, "to your duologue on the way up, and if I thought there were many like you in the country I'd take to drink. As it is, I am hopeful, as I told you, that Jerusalem will soon be vacant. Good morning. . . ." And the fact that two soldiers on leave from France standing close by burst into laughter did not clear the air. . . .
It did not strike him that inquiries might be instituted by Sir Thomas, when he found the money gone, and that suspicion might conceivably fall upon himself. Courage may be born of champagne, but rarely prudence. The theatricals began at half-past eight with a duologue.
We now noticed with astonishment that all further conversation was carried on between them as a duologue which was quite unintelligible to us. All that we could make out was the furious jealousy of Herr von Guaita and Friederike's witty, scornful defence. But the excited man became more composed when he suggested I should arrange for a performance of Lohengrin in Frankfort under my own direction.
At Cambridge my ideas ceased to live in a duologue; in exchange for Britten, with whom, however, I corresponded lengthily, stylishly and self-consciously for some years, I had now a set of congenial friends.
Still keeping her face hidden, she walked down the slope, followed at an interval by her servant, and curiously watched by the English officer, who said to himself, "Well, I suppose I was mistaken," and consequently discovered that he was in a hobble. A short duologue in their best stilted French ensued between him and Ammiani.
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