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"But what else?" urged Coolin. "Nothin' about a drame at all?" "Who's talkin' about dreams!" said Bagshot. 'E wasn't no bloomin' poet. 'E was a man. What 'e said 'e said like a man. 'E said 'e'd got word from Mary which is proper that a man should do when 'e's a-chuckin' of 'is tent-pegs. If 'e ain't got no mother an' Connor 'adn't 'is wife or 'is sweetheart 'as the honour."
The last drame I had was when the boys put the thistle tops in the blankets, and then I was thinking that Captain Jack's man was currying me down, for the matter of Roanoke, but it's no trifle I mind either in skin or stomach."
Un veritable drame!" said Miraudin, pausing, as he found himself face to face with the Marquis Fontenelle. Fontenelle stared haughtily. "Did you speak to me, Monsieur?" he enquired, glancing the actor up and down with an air of supreme disdain. Miraudin laughed carelessly.
"Yes, I spoke to you, Marquis!" he replied, "I said that the public confession of our dear priest Vergniaud was a veritable drame!" "An unfortunate scandal in the Church!" said Fontenelle curtly. "Yes!" went on the unabashed Miraudin, "If it were on the stage it would be taken as a matter of course. An actor's follies help to populate the world.
Their laughter reached him as he advanced, and told him they could know nothing yet of Richard's danger. On his abrupt and unexpected apparition, Diana paled and Ruth flushed slightly, whereupon Sir Rowland might have bethought him, had he been book-learned, of the axiom, "Amour qui rougit, fleurette; amour qui plit, drame du coeur."
"Now, whut is my young Injun savage doin', when he goes out alone, on top of some high hill, an' builds him a little fire, an' talks with his familiar spirits, which he calls here his 'drame'? Isn't he searchin' an' feelin' o' himsilf, same as the haythin in far-away Ingy?
But here again also that extra dose of life and action almost of bustle which Fielding knows how to instil is present. B. was "very naughty;" even the pond where, if she had been another sort of girl, the drame might have become real tragedy.
'Twasn't the way I thought it 'ud be.... But the College is as grand as any notion I had of it; on'y since I've seen it, 'tis like a drame to me that ever I set fut in it, just a sort of drame.... Great ancient places the squares are; I walked round the whole of them before I found the Hall.
"Shure, I'll tell ye now why the chills rin down me back whin I hear uv y'r drame. Thrue things are drames, as I'll prove to ye as quare as condinsation an' as thrue, Coolin; fer condinsation comes out uv nothin', and so do drames.... There was Mary Haggarty, Coolin ye'll not be knowin' Mary Haggarty. It was mornin' an' evenin' an' the first day uv the world where she were. That was Mary Haggarty.
So the words ran from mouth to mouth, as Felix Bonpre and his niece moved slowly through the throng, following Manuel; then, when they had passed, there came a general hubbub and confusion once more, and the people hustled and elbowed each other through the church regardless of consequences, eager to escape and discuss among themselves the sensation of the morning. "C'est un drame!
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