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Updated: May 8, 2025
He came toward her, melancholy. "Did you hear, Mr. Delmars?" she asked, with a catching breath. "I did," said the comedian. "It is true. I didn't think there was any use. I tried to let you know with the song." "Silly!" said the matron; "why didn't you speak?" "No, no," cried the wood nymph, "his way was the best. I didn't know, but it was just what I wanted, Bobby."
'I don't go out much now that Lady Kirkaldy is not in town; but he always seems to turn up everywhere that one goes. 'Ursula, I'm very glad of that tone of yours. I was afraid 'Afraid of what? cried Nuttie in a defiant tone. 'That you liked him, and he is not really nice, Nuttie. Mark knows all about him; and so did I when I lived with the Delmars. Nuttie laughed rather bitterly.
The gorilla's last leap had brought him to her feet, and there he knelt, holding her hand, until he had finished the haunting-lyric that was set in the absurd comedy like a diamond in a piece of putty. When Delmars ceased Miss Carroll started, and covered a sudden flow of tears with both hands. "There!" cried the playwright, gesticulating with violence; "there you have it, sergeant.
His Silvas, his Ribieras, his Shriftens, his Delmars remind us of people we have heard of somewhere, many times, without ever believing in their existence. His morality is honourable and conventional. There is cruelty in his fun and he can invent puns in the midst of carnage. His naiveties are perpetrated in a lurid light.
For two weeks she has spoiled that scene in just that manner at every performance. I have begged her to consider that it is not Ophelia or Juliet that she is playing. Do you wonder now at our impatience? Tears for the gorilla song! The play is lost!" Out of her bewitchment, whatever it was, the wood nymph flared suddenly, and pointed a desperate finger at Delmars.
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