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"Of course, the more money we get, the better the Red Cross can do with it but it seems to me that the present bid is adequate. If no arrangement is possible, however, I must continue the auction." "Two hundred and seventy-five guineas." "Three hundred," Jocelyn Thew replied coolly. "One moment, Mr. Bobby." He leaned forward and whispered in the comedian's ear.
One hundred and twenty was promptly bidden by the newcomer. Jocelyn Thew smiled up at the auctioneer. "Well," he said, "I've invited my party so I suppose I'll have to stick to it. I'll make it a hundred and fifty." "A hundred and sixty." "A hundred and seventy-five." "Two hundred." "Two hundred and fifty." The comedian's flow of badinage had ceased. An intense silence reigned in the marquee.
As the Comedian's one eye rested upon the last, he exclaimed, "But after all, Mop's great strength will probably be in arithmetic, and the science of numbers is the root of all wisdom. Besides, every man, high and low, wants to make a fortune, and associations connected with addition and multiplication are always pleasing. Who, then, is the sage at computation most universally known?
'I've just come back from a rehearsal, he said, seating himself beside her. 'Really? 'The whole thing is different, he went on, buoyantly. 'They know their lines. They act as if they meant it. Arthur Mifflin's fine. The comedian's improved till you wouldn't know him. I'm awfully pleased about it. 'Really? George felt damped. 'I thought you might be pleased, too, he said, lamely.
But the comedian's jokes soon began to seem idle and flat, and the ladies proposed to walk on in front, leaving the gentlemen to get their friend home as best they could. 'You're thinking of your beds, Dick cried, and that reminded him that the hotel-keeper had told him that he shut his doors at eleven and would open them for no one before morning.
Nicholas promised compliance. He also made a pecuniary testimonial at the comedian's next benefit. Dr. Schmidt sold his sleigh and left Kazan by diligence the day after our arrival. I remained four days, and, when ready to start, managed to pick up a young Russian who was going to Nijne Novgorod. Each of us spoke two languages, but we had no common tongue.
The soul, the spirit, the entity of Piccadilly Circus is in the words, and the scene the comedian's eyes each look is full of suggestion; it is irritating, it is magnetic, it is symbolic, it is art.
The license permitted to Grecian comedy was such as to authorise the ridicule and contempt of the most popular deities; we are not, therefore to conclude from the scenes that there were many unbelievers, or that this ancient system of cure had sunk into disrepute: for the history of our comedian's great contemporary, Hippocrates, informs us, that at this very time the temple of Aesculapius at Cos abounded in tablets, on which the sick attested the remedies that had been revealed to them during incubation, and that he himself was highly indebted to them for much of his medical knowledge.
With this Dialogue, in spite of the disparity of age, he is now living; and is not ashamed to clip the wings of free, high-soaring eloquence, and submit himself to the comedian's fetters of bald question and answer. He, whose thoughts should have found utterance in thundering oratory, is content to weave a puny network of conversation.
But before Williams got to the door, the cripple and his dog had vanished; vanished down a dark narrow alley on the opposite side of the street. The rude workmen had followed him to the mouth of the alley, mocking him. Of the exact charge against the Comedian's good name they were not informed; that knowledge was confined to the Mayor and Mr. Williams.
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