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Updated: May 11, 2025
I do not know that I would have exposed this impostor, even if occasion had offered, for, after all, his fraud was a tribute to our own primacy in clowning, and the Veronese were none the worse for his erring aspirates. The audience was for me the best part of the spectacle, as the audience always is in Italy, and I indulged my fancy in some cheap excursions concerning the place and people.
He took liberties with their hats, passed familiar criticisms on their families and told them all about the other performers in the ring, arousing the noisy appreciation of the spectators. Teddy was put to his wits end to keep up with this rapid-fire clowning, and the perspiration was already streaking the powder on his face.
"The Boss wants to see you." "Yeah?" Hanlon looked him up and down almost contemptuously. "Just who is this 'boss' who's interested in me?" "Cut the clowning. You know who. At the Bacchus. Now!" "So." Hanlon let himself appear slightly interested. "Well, after I get through eating, if nothing else shows up to interest me more, I might drop over."
It is a melodrama with one good scene, the scene in the prison; and this is good only to a certain point. There is another scene which is amusing, the scene of the jury, but the humour is little more than clowning, and the tragic note, which should strike through it, is only there in a parody of itself.
It was an effective entrance, usually performed with a broad comic effect that set the people in a roar. Not so on this occasion. Meditating in bed that morning, Scaramouche had decided to present himself in a totally different aspect. He would cut out all the broad play, all the usual clowning which had delighted their past rude audiences, and he would obtain his effects by subtlety instead.
'A prophet has no honour in his own country, said Dick, ruefully, dusting his knees. 'This filthy fluff will never brush off my legs. 'It was all for your own good, said the Nilghai. 'Nothing like air and exercise. 'All for your good, said Torpenhow, not in the least with reference to past clowning.
'It isn't on your skirts it will go if you spill it, Ange replied, 'but into your bosom. Stop a second, and I'll give the bottom of the pot a wipe, then you'll be all right. In the meanwhile Pomponet and La Rivodiere were engaged in a violent quarrel. 'Just you understand, shouted Mortimer: 'if you want to do any clowning you'd better fill your wig with sawdust.
Of course he would always feel a warm gratitude for her trusting kindness, but when he no longer owed her money he could choose his own line of work. Rather bondage to some Hollywood Gashwiler than clowning in Baird's infamies! "Well, I'll try anything he gives me," he said at last, striving for the enthusiasm he could not feel. "You'll go big, too," said the girl.
Starkad rebuked them for making themselves look ridiculous with such an unnatural visage, and for clowning with wide grinning cheeks; for from this, he declared, soft and effeminate profligates derived their wanton incontinence.
The French captain was spiteful when he discovered that Jeremy wasn't Feisul after all. He swore like a wet cat, accused Mabel of being a spy, took away our basket of provisions, and I think would have shot Jeremy out of hand if Jeremy hadn't started clowning and made the other Frenchmen laugh. Laughter and murder no more mix than oil and water.
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