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Updated: May 24, 2025
Do you realize that if you persist in this determination to camp permanently in the outer and frigid zone, you will never be the centre of a life drama? That, I take it, is what every woman desires most. You had a sort of curtain-raiser to my mind, hardly that. First love is merely the more picturesque successor of measles and whooping-cough.
He had written two or three comic songs that had been immense successes, not to speak of the yards of pantomime music he had composed, and he knew that when he got hold of a good book in three acts he'd be able to tackle it. What he was doing now was not much more than a curtain-raiser; but never mind, that was the way to begin.
It was the great ball of the season at Fort Ellsworth. For a special reason it had begun unusually late; but, though the eighth dance was on, the great event of the evening had not happened yet. Until that should happen, the rest, charming though it might be, was a mere curtain-raiser to keep men amused before the first act of the play.
'Hope I don't interrupt. He smiled. 'Can't stop a minute. Got a most infernal bazaar on at the Cecil. Look here, old man, he addressed Henry: 'I've been reading your Love in Babylon again, and I fancied I could make a little curtain-raiser out of it out of the picture incident, you know. I mentioned the idea to Pilgrim, of the Prince's Theatre, and he's fearfully stuck on it.
There was no curtain-raiser, and the first act was well constructed and interesting from the commencement. It was delightful to me to feel, as I did, that I was no longer blasé of town life, or the mimic life of the theatre, and I was inclined to resent the interruption when Farnham nudged me, whispering "There's Wildred and his friends just coming into the stage box. By Jove! what a pretty girl!"
Oh, I couldn't seem to get hold of it with my funny hooks, somehow. Maybe you could make a one-act tragedy out of it for a curtain-raiser. I'll give you the details." After the performance my friend, the reporter, recited to me the facts over the Wuerzburger. "I see no reason," said I, when he had concluded, "why that shouldn't make a rattling good funny story.
'We dined early to go to the play, she said, 'and as there's a curtain-raiser, I thought I might as well take a hansom and join them later. She seated herself beside Margaret on one of those little sofas that are measured to hold two women when the fashions are moderate, and are wide enough for a woman and one man, whatever happens.
Again the pensive stare out of the window at the chill-looking autumn sky and the sharp outlines of the city roofs. "Go on," her hostess cried. To her guests she added, in the social curtain-raiser manner peculiar to rambunctious hostesses, "if Mugs tells anything about herself you can be sure it'll be something immense. Go on, Mugs."
They had been requested to allow three performances to take place, after which they had been promised that it should be so curtailed as to admit of its presentation only as a curtain-raiser to introduce a ballet which was to follow. But these gentlemen had not agreed to the terms. To guard against this they determined to protest in time.
'Your machine's too slow, now, pardner, they tells me. 'We can have a coon in hell with this here petroleum before your old flint-and-tinder truck can get him warm enough to perfess religion. And so I gives up the kindler and drifts up here to K.C. This little curtain-raiser you seen me doing, Mr.
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