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"I only thought something might happen, brother, if I should ever go to Paris! I was acting a charade in my fancy, and that was the solution of it!" "What was? You would drive the whole Sorbonne mad with your charades and fancies! But I must leave you." "Good-by, brother, if you will go.
It sailed through society all a-taut with convention, and was comme il faut from stem to stern. Lily and Osgood had always known each other. They passed through the season of hoop and ball, dancing-school, tableaux, and charades together; sympathized in each other's embryonic flirtations; and were such fast friends that no one ever dreamed of any danger to them from love.
Congratulate! congratulate!" sounded from all sides. "This gust of wind, which nearly extinguished the lights, brought me a message from my betrothed!" "What?" "What is it?" asked the company, their heads at that moment not in the least condition for guessing charades. "Counsellor Bagger, have you, like the Doge of Venice, betrothed yourself to the sea or storm?" asked the bridegroom.
"I generally find that it is so, when people take special precautions against heat." Clarissa naturally found herself thrown a good deal into Sophia Granger's society; but though they worked, and drove, and walked together, and played croquet, and acted in the same charades, it is doubtful whether there was really much more sympathy between these two than between Clarissa and Lady Geraldine.
In one corner of the parlor there was a platform, from which charades and private theatricals had been acted on some previous evening, and to this the Lad was escorted; and strange to say his awkwardness had departed from him. His form was straight. His head was lifted. His shambling gait steadied itself with firmest confidence.
"It is one thing," said she, presently her cheeks in a glow "to have very good sense in a common way, like every body else, and if there is any thing to say, to sit down and write a letter, and say just what you must, in a short way; and another, to write verses and charades like this." Emma could not have desired a more spirited rejection of Mr. Martin's prose.
To beat time or hum the air at a concert is in extremely bad taste. It is the part of the hostess at a private concert and private theatricals which latter include charades, tableaux, proverbs, and dramatic readings to arrange the programmes and apportion the parts, unless she appoints a stage-manager amongst her guests.
The young friends of the bride enact charades, or give living pictures illustrative of the chief events in her childhood and youth. There is much merriment, and, I believe, the breaking of crockery has a part in the proceedings. The bridesmaids are accompanied by an equal number of young men, called Brautführer.
It maybe that they demand some slight exercise of wit and readiness, and that you do not feel yourself calculated to shine in them; but it is better to seem dull than disagreeable, and those who are obliging can always find some clever neighbour to assist them in the moment of need. Impromptu charades are frequently organized at friendly parties.
Or we could get good moving-picture films, or have a concert or play, and ask the mothers and fathers now and then; charades and Morris dances, something like that." "Dancing and moving-pictures oh, dear, dear!" said Mrs. White, with a whimsical smile and a shake of her head, and there was laughter.
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