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And he turned to the page; but the boy only grew redder, and began to make a fumbling reply. Mademoiselle Davila, however, cut in. "He has gone to the masque." And with a burst of confidence as she rose to her feet: "The Queen has gone too, monsieur." "To the masque! The masque she said she would never attend!" "Oh, the Queen is a woman, monsieur!
Now is it not more than an open question that when temptation assumes the masque of "service," it is no less temptation, and that it is evil disguised as good? The woman who reads the infinitely uplifting sermons of Rev. Doctor Charles G. Ames; who solaces what she is pleased to call her soul in that marvelously great work, "The Expansion of Religion," by Rev.
To my fancy he stands as high above them as the pole-star over your ladyship's garden lamps." "A pamphleteer who has scribbled schoolboy Latin verses, and a few short poems; and, let me see, a masque yes, a masque that he wrote for Lord Bridgewater's children before the troubles. I have heard my father talk of it. I think he called the thing Comus."
She made no answer, but, gravely wishing us good-night, followed De Lorgnac up the stone steps, and, passing through the archway, the two were lost to our view. When they had gone I turned to Le Brusquet. "I too am in the dark. What did De Lorgnac mean?" "He meant that his Majesty, by some means or other, discovered that the Queen was at the masque and who remained behind in the cabinet.
It occurs first in Neptune's song, "While these pass o'er the deep" Next in Amphitrite's song, "Halcyon Days," a serenely lovely melody, we have which is a variant. In spite of incongruous masque or rather pantomime scenes the pervading atmosphere is sustained.
In the front of the mock masque, forming the vanguard of the entire spectacle, rode fifty gentlemen of the Inns of Court, reining high-bred horses, and followed by their running footmen, whose liveries added to the gorgeous magnificence of the display. Besides the expenses which fell upon individuals taking part in the play, or procession, this entertainment cost the two inns £1086 8s. 11d.
Some rumour of the masque having gone abroad, towards evening a crowd, chiefly composed of the most worthless order of society, collected under the portico at the western entrance, and the great doors being opened by Chowles, they entered the cathedral.
If they hurried over luncheon they were content to dawdle in the picturesque streets, and Cynthia was reluctant to leave the fine old castle, in which Milton's "Masque of Comus" was first played on Michaelmas night of 1634.
There was Carnival season, with its masque balls and frivolity, and Faschings Dienstag, when Hauptstrasse was given over to merriment all afternoon, every one trailing up and down the middle of the street masked, and in fantastic costume, throwing confetti and tooting horns, Carl and I tooting with the rest.
Charles the First and Henrietta Maria were entertained here the house being placed at their disposal whilst their host occupied Bolsover Castle, some miles distant. Ben Jonson devised a masque entitled "Love's Welcome" for the royal amusement, and there was such feasting and show that it cost between fourteen and fifteen thousand pounds.
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