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When it was decided that you were to be the mountebank and I the bear, we had to find a good-sized bear, and kind enough to let us have his head, jacket and hose. I took my axe and my knife, and climbed up Mont Dore. Good hunter, good hunt. I almost immediately ran across a friend of my size.
From the shelter of the tent she watched the troop arrive at the open space before her. The horse the Sheik was riding was jet black, and Diana looked from the beautiful creature's satiny coat to the man's white robes with angry contempt. "Black and white! Black and white! Mountebank!" she muttered through her clenched teeth.
We'll get up a programme of the Sunday evening lecture, like a play-bill, you know "Grand Performance of the celebrated Mountebank," and so on. We'll bring in the Tryanites old Landor and the rest in appropriate characters. Proctor shall print it, and we'll circulate it in the town. It will be a capital hit. 'Bravo! said Janet, clapping her hands.
'That's no reason, said Aunt Becky, who, as usual, had got up a skirmish, and was firing away in the cause of Mossop and Smock-alley play-house; 'why, she would be fraudulently arrested in her own chair, on her way to the play-house, by the contrivance of the rogue Barry, and that wicked mountebank, Woodward. 'You're rather hard upon them, Madam, said Mrs.
Here have I been staring for years unless that, too, is a dream, which it very probably is at every mountebank "ism" which ever tumbled and capered on the philosophic tight-rope; and they are every one of them dead dolls, wooden, worked with wires, which are petitiones principii.... Each philosopher begs the question in hand, and then marches forward, as brave as a triumph, and prides himself on proving it all afterwards.
In a second I was on the top of him, shouting to the others to lend me a hand. This they did at last, and so mazed was he with the fall, being a mighty heavy man, that he scarcely resisted. "If you want a quiet night," I cried, "we must silence this mountebank."
This lasted a few minutes, and then the crowd gathered in silence round one man, who spoke with angry vehemence and gesticulation, stamping, and frequently wiping his forehead. We thought he was a mountebank haranguing the populace, till we saw that he wore a uniform.
"Of course, if you have declared war, we shall have to fight to a finish, unless," with a grin, "we can intrench." "It is they who are intrenched," explained Billie. "They are at the bottom of the old mine, although I don't know how they got there." "So," laughed the mountebank. "Suppose we go and find out."
This worthy blacksmith had two daughters, Angeline and Margaret, both remarkable for their good looks, and both blessed with loving natures. And it was said by the neighbors that the only flaw in the character of this good man's family was made by pretty Margaret, who went away with and married one Gosler, a travelling mountebank.
The constructive ingenuity exhibited throughout is almost morbid. Nothing could be more happily imagined, as a REDUCTIO AD ABSURDUM of the aristocratic principle, than the adventures of Gwynplaine, the itinerant mountebank, snatched suddenly out of his little way of life, and installed without preparation as one of the hereditary legislators of a great country.
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