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There is much rehearsing to be done, and Sergeant Graves has to transpose the hymns and write out the notes for each instrument, and this requires much work. To show my appreciation of their obedience to my slightest request, a large cake and dozens of eggs have been sent to them after each service.
He was still on his guard, as if he still distrusted her or perhaps himself but he did not avoid her any longer. The theatre naturally took up most of her time. When not acting, she was rehearsing new rôles. It was interesting work, and she felt it was valuable experience.
And then after rehearsing that scandalous biography, Rafael's mother had come to the shocking effrontery with which her niece and Rafael were rousing the whole city; flaunting their wrong-doing in the face of the public; and turning her home, the respectable, irreproachable home of doña Pepa, into a den of vice, a brothel!
Most of them seemed as far away from him in their knowledge of worldly things as had the waiters at the Springs a few years before. He was half afraid of the chorus girls, because they seemed such different beings from the nurse girls down home. However, there was little time for moping or regrets. Mr. Frye was, it must be said, an indefatigable worker. They were rehearsing every day.
As their ticket to heaven depended upon obedience, none of the faithful senoritas dreamed of declining the honor, even though it involved the expenditure of considerable of papa's good money and required them to spend most of the time until Christmas rehearsing for the ceremony and "praising the glory of God" with the priests in a room of the church, locked against worldly intruders.
You look down at that little witch of a girl who is almost crying with joy." "I'm not, pa. What nonsense!" "Crying with joy. and she looks knowingly at you. Ah, ha? You have been rehearsing the play of 'She stoops to conquer, only it was the gentleman in this case. But now all your troubles are over." "All over. I am happy." And his large, dark eyes gleamed with the joy which dwelt within him.
"Nothing but rehearsals!" yawned Ruth. "Don't you wish the operetta were over?" "Yes and no," replied Marjorie, thinking of Frieda's promise. "I don't mind rehearsing much. But, then, I haven't a big part." "No; neither you nor I can sing wonderfully, can we? But didn't it make you feel the least bit badly, Marj, after being heroine last year, to have to take a back seat this time?"
Abe Tutts's existence was due to Essie Tisdale's graphic account of the outburst of temper in which that erratic lady, while rehearsing the rôle of a duchess in an amateur production, kicked, not figuratively but literally, the duke a rôle essayed by the talented plasterer down the stairs of Odd Fellow's Hall over the General Merchandise Store.
Every day she listened for his footsteps, till heart-sick and weary she returned to her parents, and told them all her grief and all her fears. An hour later they handed her his letter, received an hour after her departure, and which her father had carried every day in his pocket and forgotten to re-mail to her. While every one in L was rehearsing the great wrong which, in their estimation, Mr.
Alice Weston was different. 'I'm rehearsing at present, she said. 'I'm going out on tour next month in "The Girl From Brighton". What do you do, Mr Rice? Henry paused for a moment before replying. He knew how sensational he was going to be. 'I'm a detective. Usually, when he told girls his profession, squeaks of amazed admiration greeted him.
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