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I knew that it was concealed in Amy's room by a heavy portière, and as it opened on my side, I had only to hide myself behind the curtain's folds as once before on that previous day, alas! and, unguessed by her, watch her at my ease. The key moved gently in the lock; the lock yielded; a moment more and I had pulled a tiny fold of the curtain aside, and commanded a full view of the silent room.
They're off, my good sir! both of 'em. Neither you nor the police can lay hands on 'em now. And you'll do no good by laying hands on me. Come now," she went on, "I said I'd come to ask for mercy. But I came for more. This game's all over! It's up. The curtain's down at least it's going down. Why don't you let me tell you all about it and then we can be friends?" Mr.
"That's all right, but if I were you I should drink the champagne at the restaurant its better there," he said, suddenly addressing Fontan when he had finished his recital. "The curtain's up!" cried the callboy in cracked and long-drawn accents "The curtain's up! The curtain's up!" The shout sounded for some moments, during which there had been a noise of rapid footsteps.
I only sent my voice that way to frighten you." "Good heavens!" gasped Bunny. She laughed again with gay insouciance. "Haven't I given you a splendid evening's entertainment? Well, it's all over now, and the curtain's down. Let's go!" She turned with her hand in his and led him back to the turret-door. Reaching it, he sought to detain her. "You'll never do it again? Promise promise!"
If I were some one else, I should say my heart beats faster than usual. She comes the fair lady! Now the curtain's down. All that may be seen is her shadow. So, despairing lover, hug that shadow to your breast!" He plucked a rose from a bush in her garden, laughing at himself the while for doing so, and as he moved away he repeated with conviction: "A shadow!
And for an eternal second she remained kneeling there, so still that she seemed not even to breathe, her gaze fixed and level, waiting for some sound, some sign, some tremor of the curtain's folds, to confirm her suspicion. When at length she rose it was in one swift, alert movement.
Although he sensed the covert malice behind the smiles men gave him, he would not yield one inch from his mocking disparagement of the whole affair. He laid down a law or two to his boys, and bade them hold their tongues and go their way and give no heed to the clacking. "The show ain't over till the curtain's down for good," he said, borrowing a phrase from Belle.
Moreover, in some quarters, there existed grave doubts of the curtain's being prevailed upon to rise at all, since, the night before, it had persistently stuck fast, at two feet from the floor. At length all was in readiness for the first part of the program, and Charlie had just stepped forward to make his bow, before seating himself at the piano, when the doctor hurriedly approached Louise.
I've scaled, on my lips the lilt of an Andalusian dance, The steep redoubt under a rain of fire; I've staked my life upon a hazard of the dice Careless, as though it were a gold doubloon. My hand would seek the ball out of the cannon's mouth, But now meseems I grow more timid than a crouching hair, Or a child spying some ghost in the curtain's folds.
As they gazed, the curtain rose higher, disclosing new and more rugged features, on which shone a strange, unearthly light the result of shadow from the mist and sunshine behind it while a gleam of stronger light tipped the curtain's under-edge in one direction. Still higher it rose!
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