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Updated: June 20, 2025
This creature was the costumer of the immense drama which knavery plays in Paris. His lair was the green-room whence theft emerged, and into which roguery retreated. A tattered knave arrived at this dressing-room, deposited his thirty sous and selected, according to the part which he wished to play, the costume which suited him, and on descending the stairs once more, the knave was a somebody.
The university professor put on a full dress suit and lisle thread gloves at three in the afternoon and before literary clubs and circles bellowed extracts from Goethe and Schiler in the German, shaking his fists, purple with vehemence. The Cherokee, arrayed in fringed buckskin and blue beads, rented from a costumer, intoned folk songs of his people in the vernacular.
These plays appear to be made up by the writer, the manager, the carpenter, the costumer. If they are successful with the modern audiences, their success is probably due to other things than any literary quality they may have, or any truth to life or to human nature. We see how this is in the great number of plays adapted from popular novels.
"I can make you up," he said, "so that your best friend or what is of more difficulty, the woman who loved you best or hated you worst wouldn't know you." "That is it," said Leslie. "Now be quick, like a good fellow, for I have only five minutes." "You will not need to change your pants, I think," said the costumer.
It was a magnificent meeting, however, Wolsey acting as costumer, and was called "The Field of the Cloth of Gold."
The costumer shrugged: "Pardon, in that case I must seek elsewhere." He would have moved on, but Chester asked: "What kind of advice do you want if not legal?" "Literary." The young man smiled: "Why, I'm not literary." "I think yes. You know Ovide Landry? Black man? Secon'-han' books, Chartres Street, just yonder?" "Yes, very pleasantly, for I love old books."
The hope came again that this unusual shopman and his wish had something to do with her. "If that's the advice you want," he resumed, "I think we might construe it as legal, though worth at the most a mere notarial fee." "And contingent on ?" the costumer prompted. "Contingent, yes, on the author's success." "Sir! I am not the author of a manuscript fifty years old!"
In the mirror she saw that a majestic figure was entering the room, and wheeling swiftly about, she beheld Father Neptune himself smiling at her. Farnsworth had sent to a theatrical costumer in the city for his garb, and very handsome he looked in a dark green velvet robe that hung in classic folds.
He had been to see the costumer, perruquier, leader of orchestra, etc., and enjoined each of them to be on hand early. Handy, always prompt and businesslike, was on the stage at seven o'clock. A few minutes later Fogg himself appeared, almost exhausted with the onerous duties of outside management, but for all that as cheerful and as confident as any man of his peculiar temperament could be.
A short, dark-whiskered, sallow man came forward as Leslie entered, addressing him by name, with an inquiry after his wishes. "I want a disguise," said Leslie "particularly a disguise of the face, and one that can deceive the sharpest of eyes." The costumer looked at his face for a moment.
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