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With that abrupt apology, she walked away rapidly in the direction of the house. In some surprise, Francine turned, and looked at the trees. She discovered in full retreat, on his side the eccentric drawing-master, Alban Morris. Did he, too, admire the dagger-scene? And was he modestly desirous of hearing it recited, without showing himself? Francine consulted her instincts.
Duncan made a superb Macbeth. They were doing the dagger-scene, which was put on the stage in a most novel manner. A sheet had been pinned from the top of the room, on one side of which stood a boy with a broken dinner knife, the handle end of which he was pushing through a hole in the middle of the sheet at the shadow of Duncan on the other side.
I said, 'I have not only decided, I have learned the piece. 'And what may it be? 'The dagger-scene in Macbeth. There was a howl I can call it by no other name a howl of indignation. A man's soliloquy, and, worse still, a murdering man's soliloquy, recited by one of Miss Ladd's young ladies, before an audience of parents and guardians! That was the tone they took with me.
"And she seems to be rather in a hurry," Cecilia remarked. Francine's satirical smile showed itself for a moment. Did this appearance of hurry in Emily's movements denote impatience to resume the recital of "the dagger-scene"? She had no book in her hand; she never even looked toward Francine. Sorrow became plainly visible in her face as she approached the two girls. Cecilia rose in alarm.
I was as firm as a rock. The dagger-scene or nothing. The result is nothing! An insult to Shakespeare, and an insult to Me. I felt it I feel it still. I was prepared for any sacrifice in the cause of the drama. If Miss Ladd had met me in a proper spirit, do you know what I would have done? I would have played Macbeth in costume. Just hear me, and judge for yourself.
Spencer. "How grand he was in Macbeth, Mr. Warrington! How awful that dagger-scene was! You should have seen our host, ladies! I presented Mr. Warrington, in the greenroom, to Mr. Garrick and Mrs. Pritchard, and Lady Macbeth did him the honour to take a pinch out of his box." "Did the wife of the Thane of Cawdor sneeze?" asked the General, in an awful voice. "She thanked Mr.
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