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Now a servant comes and lights the lamps in the orchestra. The parquet and the upper seats fill, but the reserved seats and the boxes are still empty. Now it suddenly grows light; the chandelier comes down from an opening in the ceiling. The musicians appear and tune their instruments. It makes a horrible discord, but still it is beautiful.
The smooth grass parquet swept gracefully to the semicircle of dark green trees, against the foliage of which the virginal white of the gowns was transposed to an ivory tone by the blue and green keys in sky and forest. "By Jove!" he exclaimed, "paint in the foreground a few peacocks languidly dragging their gorgeous tails, and you have a Watteau or a Fragonard no, a Monticelli!
"Parquet $217.50, dress circle $105, gallery $36.50," announced Tommy Gray, as he donned his wig and false beard for the third act. "Sixty- forty gives us $215.40 on the night. Thank God, we won't have to worry about the sheriff this week." In Miss Thackeray's dressing-room that level-headed young woman broke down and wept like a child.
Mintz walked about the dim room, tapping his heels on the parquet floor, and though he spoke loudly, his voice held a note of yearning pain. "I was in the park just now. That pond, those maple avenues disintegrating, dying, disappearing drive me melancholy mad. The ice has already melted in the pond by the dam.
It was a parquet floor, and the spoon made such a noise, and the cream made such a mess. I was so wretched, because I had already upset a pepper thing earlier in the meal, and spilt some water.
The dining-room was more than plainly furnished; it was positively ugly. The furniture consisted of a round table standing on an unpolished parquet floor, of six cane chairs set against the wall, and of a walnut-wood buffet, on the shelves of which stood no plates, or ornaments of any description.
"Testimony?" "You have testified to the truth, Miss Ayrton, and you shall have your reward. You have shown that the truth is more to you than than love the love of man all that women hold sweet in life. You are right Miss Ayrton; and all true women must love and respect you." Phyllis turned a very brilliant color, and kept her eyes fixed on the parquet pattern of the floor.
On the garland-embroidered curtains of primrose yellow silk were pinned placards announcing patriotic meetings of women who wished to assist or form recruiting agencies; or appeals from the Red Cross Society or the Prince of Wales' Fund. Rugs had been rolled up, and the polished parquet floor was strewn with shirt buttons, reels of cotton, and torn papers of pins.
I met him in the front hall just in time to prevent a hopeless scar on my parquet floor. He was hot, perspiring and panting, but full of triumph. "I found it, Molly, I found it!" he exclaimed as he let the heavy pipe drop almost on the bare pink toes. "You can git a hammer and pound the end sharp and bend it so no whale we ketch can git away for nothing.
I believe now that Mr. Fox thought he had virtually excluded me from the house when he told me I should have to pay in order to get in. I bought a seat in the parquet and went in. The audience was not large and there were not more than a dozen ladies present. Pretty soon the orchestra began to ooze in through a little opening under the stage. Then the overture was given. It was called "Egmont."
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