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She paused and lowered her voice. "When have you seen Count L'Estrange?" "Not since yesterday, madame." "Beware of him! Do you know who he is, Leoline?" "I know nothing of him but his name." "Then do not seek to know," said La Masque, emphatically. "For it is a secret you would tremble to hear. And now I must leave you.
He realized, too, that he was infinitely more interested than he had ever been hitherto, and more interested than he had intended to become. This seemingly trivial conversation was a turning point, and twelve months later Rita Dresden was playing the title role in The Maid of the Masque.
ALTHOUGH Ben Jonson's days ended sadly, although his later plays showed failing powers, he left behind him unfinished a Masque called The Sad Shepherd which is perhaps more beautiful and more full of music than anything he ever wrote. For Ben's charm did not lie in the music of his words but in the strength of his drawing of character.
It was a desolation realizing all the horrors of the "Masque of the Red Death," and as she thought of the mourning hearts in that silent city, of Clara's danger and her own, Beulah repeated sadly those solemn lines: "'Like clouds that rake the mountain summit, Or waves that own no curbing hand, How fast has brother followed brother, From sunshine to the sunless land!"
It was the Marquise de Vierle, wife of the French Ambassador. "How about her Masque to-night?" I asked; "will it be worth while?" "It's very evident you are new to Dornlitz," Courtney observed and Lady Helen laughed. "The Vierle Balls outrival even the Court functions," she explained. "Are you going?" I asked her. "I am, indeed." "And you, Courtney?" "I shall look in late." I motioned to Moore.
The verse moves with even more stately measure than Il Penseroso. It was during these early years spent at Horton, too, that Milton wrote his masque of Comus. It is strange to find a Puritan poet writing a masque, for Puritans looked darkly on all acting.
Davies, a literary friend of mine quite the best authority on Jacobean verse offers me his house, just by way of a joke. The house will be empty, and he says he only wants me to defend his notes on the History of the Masque from burglary. I shall take him at his word." "You alone in a house, sir? There's a thing!" exclaimed the landlady. "A thing to be thankful for," Mr. Clarkson replied.
There were the names, in the junior class, of Tom Carew, noted for his amatory songs and his one brilliant masque, Tom Killigrew, of pleasant humor, and no mean writer of tragedy, Suckling, the wittiest of courtiers, and the most courtly of wits, Cartwright, Crashaw, Davenant, and May. But of all these, the contest soon narrowed down to the two latter.
One night, while he was being sought in one end of the kingdom, he danced en masque in the palace of the king. The most celebrated beauty of the court was the Lady Louise de Neville. Perhaps a little because she was the beauty she was, perhaps more because she was the king's ward, Paul Bellaire paid her his court.
"What is taking place?" the Sieur de Pascal asked one of the men. "There is going to be a night masque, and a mock combat at the Louvre," the man said. "It is strange. I heard nothing about it at the Louvre," Philip said, as they proceeded on their way.
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