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Just at present he has become an expert almost a professional dancer to syncopated music. I hear of him as dancing for charity at public entertainments, and he is in continual demand for private theatricals and parties. He is astonishingly clever at it. Yet I cannot imagine Daniel Webster or Rufus Choate dancing in public even in their leisure moments.
She was, however, shutting her eyes to the fact that her husband had had a minister far superior to Kaunitz; and that she herself had lent her aid to drive him from his service. Anglomania in Paris. The Winter at Versailles. Hunting. Private Theatricals. Death of Prince Charles of Lorraine. Successes of the English in America. Education of the Duc d'Angoulême. Libelous Attacks on the Queen.
But neither Rayburn nor Young, as the latter would have expressed it, awed easily, and it was Rayburn who presently spoke. "This fellow in the big chair would be a good hand at private theatricals. He's got a first-rate notion of stage effect. Hadn't I better stick a pin in him and wake him up?" "There's no good in stickin' pins into him," said Young, in a tone of great contempt.
He had never yet been arrested for murder, and his killing was in fair open fight, his life usually against large odds. He was a strange favorite of fortune, who seemed certainly to shield him round-about. Bill now went East for another try at theatricals, in which, happily, he was unsuccessful, and for which he felt a strong distaste.
"Father, I should like to go to school I long to go I want to get on with my music, and Miss Briggs can't teach me any more." "Father, when girls are at boarding-schools they have parties and theatricals, and go to concerts, and have all sorts of fun. We never have anything like that." "Father, I am not a child; I am nearly eighteen.
I never esteemed any woman more highly, or enjoyed the society of any other person more than hers. How many pleasant hours have I passed with her! I so well remember John Kemble fancying that if I went through a course of reading Shakspeare with his sister Mrs. T , I should make, as he said, a fine actress; and we were to get up private theatricals at Mountjoy Forest.
They were very serious and never smiled, and even in a musical comedy they played without the faintest trace of gaiety, with a businesslike air, as though they were engaged in bookkeeping. I loved our theatricals, especially the numerous, noisy, and rather incoherent rehearsals, after which they always gave a supper.
He gave a little talk about it in the saloon after dinner, and worked his audience up to quite a pitch of enthusiasm. This would be better than any amateur theatricals, he insisted. Everyone was to act exactly as though in a sudden calamity.
And once when we had private theatricals, and I dressed as a nun, Marie never found out for half the evening that I was not one of the Sisters who frequently came to the château, but kept crossing herself whenever she saw me; and when she discovered me she told me, with tears in her eyes, it really was a thousand pities that I would not renounce the world and become a Christian, because I looked so much like a "religieuse."
Except that Henry Malsom was of the ripe raspberry tint that one sometimes sees at private theatricals representing the human complexion, there was little outward sign among those assembled of the crisis that had just been encountered and surmounted. But the tension had been too stupefying while it lasted not to leave some mental effects behind it.
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