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You will find yourself retrospectively related to the olive faces and the dark eyes you meet; you will recognize sisters and cousins in the patrician ladies when you see their portraits in the palaces where you used to live in such state." Staniford spiced his flatteries with open burlesque; the girl entered into his fantastic humor. "But if I was a nun?" she asked, gayly. "Oh, I forgot.

If, on a first introduction and visit, he is told that the house and all it contains is his own, and that the proprietor is entirely at his service, he will neither take this literally nor as a burlesque, but will receive the assurance for what it really signifies, that is, as conveying a spirit of cordiality.

The legend was also dramatized by Hans Sachs, the shoemaker poet of Nuremberg, and related in prose form in a chap book which still exists in prints of the eighteenth century. The story and the characters gradually became so vague and distorted, that only a trained eye could detect in the burlesque figures of the popular account the heroes of the ancient Germanic Legend.

It must be remembered that the only revenge which the Parisians were able to take upon the conquerors was to ridicule them; and the English generally took it in good humour, and laughed at the extravagant drollery of the burlesque. The English soldiers generally walked about Paris in parties of a dozen, and were quiet and well-behaved.

Sue," continued Garrison quietly, "from your type, I thought you fashioned of better material. Now, don't explode yet a while. I mean property and parents' blessing should not weigh a curse with you. Yes; I said curse damn, if you wish. If you loved, this burlesque engagement should not stand in your way. You would elope with the man you love, and let property and parents' blessings "

"Is that all?" exclaimed the escaped victim, springing up to take the minister's two hands with gladness. From this frequent expression of Mr. Lincoln's, a true comedian, the "negro entertainer," Unsworth, conceived a burlesque lecture, "Or Any Other Man," with which he went around the world. The editor, passing through London, remembers his attention being called to Mr.

Said Hahn: "My nurse tells me that you can do a bedside burlesque of 'East Lynne' that made even that Boston-looking interne with the thick glasses laugh. Go on and do it for me, there's a good girl. I could use a laugh myself just now."

The most wildly funny people are low comedians of the highest order, whose fun is never forced and never fails; they found themselves on fact, and only burlesque what they have seen in actual life they never evolve their fun from the depths of their inner consciousness; and in this naturalness, for me, lies the greatness of Leech.

Waldeaux drew herself together and turned her eyes on her with sudden apprehension, as she would on a snapping dog. The woman's tones threatened attack. "To live in Paris, to work effectively, your son must have money. I brought him no dot, alas! Except" with a burlesque courtesy "my beauty and my blood. I must know how much money we shall have before I design the menage."

He described the dinner given by Edbury at a celebrated City tavern where my father and this so-called Dauphin were brought together. The sense of ridicule enveloped me in suffocating folds, howling sentences of the squire's Boeotian burlesque by fits.