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Updated: June 16, 2025
But it did so happen that the audience were of the actress's mind, and found the words too exuberant, and the business of the play too scanty in proportion. At last their patience was so sorely tried that they supplied one striking incident to a piece deficient in facts.
To think that one word from this laughing lady would secure his work a hearing, and that he dared not ask her. She was up in the world, he was down. She was great, he was nobody. He felt a sort of chill at this woman all brains and no heart. He took his picture and his plays under his arms and crept sorrowfully away. The actress's eye fell on him as he went off like a fifth act.
What are parties given for in London but that enemies may meet? I grant you it's inconceivable that the husband of a superb creature like your sister should find his requirements better met by an object comme cette petite, who looks like a pen-wiper an actress's idea of one made up for a theatrical bazaar.
There was little of the courtier about him, but he became very ill at ease as he realized how significant his waiting must seem to those who saw him there. Deeply in the snare as he was, this sitting beside an actress's dressing-room door became intolerable to his arrogant soul, and he was about to flee when Hugh came back and engaged him in conversation.
And, according to a certain friend, who had watched him repeatedly, he always managed his repast so artfully as to finish, at one and the same time, the last mouthful of meat, the last fragment of bread, and the last draught of beer. On this particular night the little gathering was unwontedly animated. The actress's friends indulged more freely than usual in gossip and laughter.
She glanced approvingly at the portrait of herself as a picture of which she had said to more than one girlish confidante that it showed as neat a figure and as perfectly shaped limbs as any actress's she had ever seen.
Monsieur Bargemont with the candle leant over Jean Servien, who, opening his eyes for the second time, saw the man's coarse red cheek within an inch of the actress's delicate ear. He gave a great cry and a convulsive spasm shook his body. "Perhaps it is an epileptic fit," said Monsieur Bargemont, coughing; he was catching cold standing on the staircase.
Adrienne turned back to Diana with a delightful smile. "Since we are neighbours in the country, Miss Quentin, we ought to be friends in town. Won't you come and see me one day?" Diana flushed. She was undoubtedly attracted by the actress's charming personality, but beyond this lay the knowledge that it was more than likely that at her house she might again encounter Errington.
There was something frank and joyous, almost to childishness, in the actress's manner, which was full of fascination; and Lesbia felt herself at a disadvantage almost for the first time since she had been in London.
For instance, she shifts her position with evident system and notable skill. The whole conversation becomes a dance of change and counterchange of place. Nowhere else does the perfect technical habit lapse, and nowhere at all does the habit of acting exist with her. I have spoken of this actress's nationality and of her womanhood together. They are inseparable.
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