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Updated: May 11, 2025
I suspect that he was an Englishman who had passed himself off upon the Italian management as a true Yankee, and who had formed himself upon our school of clowning, just as some of the recent English humorists have patterned after certain famous wits of ours.
In order to do this he would go to a nearby horse-trough and drink it dry; would eat a number of pounds of soap, or other nauseating substance, clowning it in a manner to provoke amusement instead of disgust; and, further to mask the disagreeable features and also, no doubt, to conceal the trick would take the cloth from the table and cover his face; whereupon he would bring forth the swallowed cat, or one that looked like it, which would howl piteously and seem to struggle wildly while being disgorged.
The conflict was carried through in a mood sometimes of brutish irritability and sometimes of lax slovenliness, the merry peculator plied his trade congenially in that asinine squabble, and behind these fooleries and masked by them, marched Fate until at last the clowning of the booth opened and revealed hunger and suffering, brands burning and swords and shame. . . . These men had come to fame and power in that atmosphere, and to me that day there was the oddest suggestion in them of actors who have suddenly laid aside grotesque and foolish parts; the paint was washed from their faces, the posing put aside.
"It is absurd, perhaps," said Count Victor, still very softly, and watching his host as closely as he might, "but Mungo " "Pshaw! a good lowland heart! For all his clowning, Count, you might trust him with your life." "The other servant then the woman?" Doom looked a trifle uneasy. "Hush!" said he, with half a glance behind him to the door. "Not so loud.
And his clowning and mugging made it impossible to play a legitimate scene with him, with any shadow of professional self-respect.
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