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This had ever the effect of causing him to swell to monstrous proportions in the histrionic line. Asking the waiter carelessly for some light supper dish, he suggested the various French, with 'not that? and the affable naming of another. 'Nor that? Dear me, we shall have to sup on chops, I believe!
His face is one of those on which no amount of histrionic talent could produce a look of care and anxiety, and for this it is not to blame, for such an expression has never been demanded of it.
"If you're so far gone under his influence," said Alice, "that you can't trust yourself to say 'No, Josephine Trescott, go, in Heaven's name, and say 'Yes, and be the wife of a millionaire and a traitor and scoundrel!" As Alice said this she came perilously near the histrionic standard of the tragic stage.
"Very dreadful!" he repeated, shaking his head dismally; "wholly unforeseen!" He glanced at me furtively once or twice to observe the effect of his words his manner. Disappointed probably by my silence and coolness, he again affected to be absorbed in contemplation. "Have we any thing left?" I asked quietly, at last weary as I was of this histrionic performance of his, and anxious for the truth.
"Camera! you know the call when the director is ready to shoot a scene of a picture? well at the moment it was given and the first and second camera men began to grind she crumpled sank to the floor unconscious!" Hot and excited, Mackay endeavored to reenact his case for us with all the histrionic ability of a popular prosecutor before a jury.
"I was often stopped, in my expeditions," he told Dr. Baker, "for the want of a hundred pounds." He was always writing: in the house, in the desert, in a storm, up a tree, at dinner, in bed, ill or well, fresh or tired, indeed, he used to say that he never was tired. There was nothing histrionic about him, and he never posed, except "before fools and savages."
These were here also; but it could not be precisely said of them, either, that they made a part of the young man's daily reading. As he surveyed the Padre's august shelves, it was with a touch of the histrionic Southern gravity which his Northern education had not wholly schooled out of him that he said: "I fear I am no scholar, sir. But I know what writers every gentleman ought to respect."
We saw also an autograph letter of Lucrezia Borgia, a lady for whom I have always entertained the highest respect, on account of her rare histrionic capabilities, her opulence in solid gold goblets made of gilded wood, her high distinction as an operatic screamer, and the facility with which she could order a sextuple funeral and get the corpses ready for it.
Now was Adrian's chance; he had only to step out from behind the curtain and run him through before he could rise from his seat. The plan had great charms, and doubtless he might have put it into execution had not Adrian's histrionic instincts stayed his hand. If he killed Ramiro thus, he would never know why he had been killed, and above all things Adrian desired that he should know.
HOWARD to place on record his apparent belief that a total absence of the three "R's" and any number of "h's" cannot debar a strong-minded daughter of the slums from the higher rungs of the histrionic ladder.
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