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He knew that in bodily strength he was no match at all for the heavy and powerful Pantaloon. "If I yield to your most eloquent and seductive persuasions, M. Binet," said he, sweetly, "what guarantee do you give me that you will not sell me for twenty louis after I shall have served your turn?" "You have my word of honour for that." M. Binet was emphatic. Andre-Louis laughed.
Worn old chargers turned out to grass, if the trumpet sounds over the hedge, may we not kick up our old heels, and gallop a minute or so about the paddock, till we are brought up roaring? I do not care for clown and pantaloon now, and think the fairy ugly, and her verses insufferable: but I like to see children at a pantomime.
Remarks full of fun and humor were freely exchanged. Handy played Humpty, and introduced by way of variety a breakdown that, in the manipulation of his legs, would have made Francis Wilson grow green with envy. Smith was the Pantaloon, and obligingly entertained the audience, by special request, with the song of "Mr. Dooley," in the chorus of which the audience joined with vigor.
You must have seen a tall platform in front of the migratory edifice, and on that platform you must have delighted your visual orb with the clown, the pantaloon, the harlequin, the dancing ladies, the walking dandy, the king with his crown, the queen in her rabbit-skin robes, the smock-frocked countryman, the top-booted jockey, and all the dramatis personae of the performance that every moment of every day, during every fair, is for ever "going to begin."
Sir Terence stood facing them again. He was a changed man. The fire had all gone out of him. His head was bowed and his face looked haggard and suddenly old. His lip curled into a sneer. "Pantaloon in the comedy," he said, remembering in that moment the bitter gibe that had cost Samoval his life. "What did you say?" her ladyship asked him. "I pronounced my own name," he answered lugubriously.
The Clown emerged running with a stolen plaice, passed it into the hands of the Pantaloon, who followed, and was in turn pursued off the scene by the Constables: but the fishmonger, issuing last in chase, ran into the Clown, who caught up a barrel of red herrings and bonneted him.
Extending it upon the forecastle deck, he now proceeds cylindrically to remove its dark pelt, as an African hunter the pelt of a boa. This done he turns the pelt inside out, like a pantaloon leg; gives it a good stretching, so as almost to double its diameter; and at last hangs it, well spread, in the rigging, to dry.
Whilst of those of antiquity I know most of the work of Euripides, Aristophanes, Terence, Plautus..." "Enough!" roared Pantaloon. "I am not nearly through with my list," said Andre-Louis. "You may keep the rest for another day. In Heaven's name, what can have induced you to read so many dramatic authors?"
Yet he was a man of family, and those who were dependent upon him were not neglected, for his little ones were uppermost in his heart. Acting was his legitimate calling, but he would attempt anything to turn an honest penny. In turn he had been sailor, engineer, pilot, painter, manager, lecturer, bartender, soldier, author, clown, pantaloon, and a brass band.
Upon George's countenance the sight struck a great grin; his legs it struck to dead halt. Mrs. Major's shrieks died to moans. "Action!" Mr. Marrapit gasped. "Remove this creature!" George put a hand upon her back. It shot a fresh shriek from her; she clung closer. "Pantaloon!" Mr. Marrapit strained. "Crush that grin! Action! Remove this woman! She throttles me! The pressure is insupportable.
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