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As long as the Cuirassiers were passing, Armand and I, hanging half out of our windows, continued to shout at them, 'Down with the dictator!" This foolhardy and melodramatic performance was one of many such scenes, calculated to turn tragedy into farce. Meantime, from early morning the hall of the representatives had been surrounded by soldiers with mortars and cannon.
But neither can the Southerner in the United States, nor the Irish, compare with the lively inhabitant of the South of Europe. The traveller in Sicily needs no gayer melodramatic exhibition than the table d'hôte of his inn will afford him, in the conversation of the joyous guests.
It must be added that, in spite of her melodramatic appearance, there was no symptom that her performance, whatever it was, would be of a melodramatic character. Ransom wondered whether he wouldn't put her to sleep; for some minutes her eyes had remained closed; he heard a lady near him, apparently familiar with phenomena of this class, remark that she was going off.
Your methods are a little too melodramatic." "Go to hell!" Dredlinton shouted. "You are too much out for compromises, Phipps. There are times when one must strike. Exchange! I say, Exchange! Why the devil can't you give me Mayfair 67? What's that? An urgent call? Well, go on, then. Out with it. Who's speaking? Mr. Stanley Rees' servant? Yes, yes! I'm Lord Dredlinton. Get on with it."
Princess, you will be vexed with me for having abused your hospitality to such an extent. I must go!" He appeared not to notice the sigh of relief that broke from her, but went on in a melodramatic tone.
"Don't talk melodramatic nonsense," she rebuked him sharply. Then pity and tenderness prevailed. "If it's really as bad as that, mon cher, why on earth didn't you take yesterday's chance, and ask Elsie to be your wife? I believe she would have said 'Yes." "So do I. Therefore I preferred not to ask her.
Half-way down, the cloth slipped and his hand was burnt against the corrugated tin. "Consid'able slide," he murmured as he struck the ground and blew softly on his raw palm. He walked away not at all like a melodramatic hero of a slide-by-night, but like a matter-of-fact young man going to see some one about business of no great importance.
Abbot's curiosity was excited by the singular language used by Rix when ordered under guard. What could such a man as he have to do with the affairs, personal or professional, of the officers of the regiment? It was rabid nonsense idle boasting, no doubt; and yet the new-made major found that melodramatic threat recurring to his mind time and again.
Autocracy may have something in it more melodramatic than this, but falls far short of it in human value and interest.
"Nothing at all serious, Mr. Sergeant Hamlin," she retorted scornfully. "Don't be melodramatic, please; it gets on the nerves. If you must know, I was merely giving our ranch foreman a few final instructions, as he leaves to-morrow. Have you objections?" "Assuredly not your ranch foreman, you say? Met him before, I think. You are the fellow I ordered out of this room, are n't you?"
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