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Not all her beauty could atone for such spiritless cringing. Love would have pitied her, but passion is not moved by qualities opposite to those which have evoked it. "Then you know them or one of them, at least," he said. "Who is he?" She would not tell; and since the murmur of voices was still plainly audible, she begged in dumb-show for silence.
Then Carnehan goes alone to the Chief, and asks him in dumb-show if he had an enemy he hated. 'I have, says the chief. So Carnehan weeds out the pick of his men, and sets the two of the Army to show them drill, and at the end of two weeks the men can manoeuvre about as well as Volunteers.
According to the Representation of the Matter from my Letters, the Company appear like so many Players rehearsing behind the Scenes; one is sighing and lamenting his Destiny in beseeching Terms, another declaring he will break his Chain, and another in dumb-Show, striving to express his Passion by his Gesture.
Scene iii represents Alonzo and his courtiers bewildered and tired by their fruitless tramps through the island, and in just the temper to be confused by the dumb-show and the harpies. Dr.
Miss Leighton gave herself up to attentions to Kilian; she was saying silly little things to him in a little low tone all the time, and offering him different articles before her, and advising him what he ought to eat; all of which seemed most interesting and important in dumb-show till you heard what it was all about, and then you felt ashamed of them.
Meg shook her head, and made belief to clap her hands, applauding Trotty; Trotty conveyed, in dumb-show, unintelligible narratives of how and when and where he had found their visitors, to Meg; and they were happy. Very happy. 'Although, thought Trotty, sorrowfully, as he watched Meg's face; 'that match is broken off, I see! 'Now, I'll tell you what, said Trotty after tea.
Then they seriously devoted themselves to cheering till the brakes were hustled off the premises in dumb-show. "Didn't I say I'd get even with him?" said Stalky on the box-seat, as they swung into the narrow Northam street.
It was terrible to Mary to stand there and watch the dumb-show tragedy, the wrecking and robbing of this peaceful house; and yet there was nothing to be done. She knew that the issues were in stronger hands than hers; she glanced piteously at her father and brother on either side, but their faces were set and white, and they did not turn at her movement.
Finally it makes a good game for indoors on a rainy day. In which case we use buttons, corn, or scraps of white cotton for trail sticks. Of course the trail now should be upstairs and down, and as long and crooked as possible. Moving Pictures One of the best developers of imagination is the Moving Picture. Sometimes called Pantomime, or Dumb-show which means all signs without sounds.
It has often before been observed, and it is well worthy of observation, that of the three groups of characters in the play, the country folk a class whose manner and appearance had most vividly reflected themselves upon the camera of Shakspere's mind are by far the most lifelike and distinct; the fairies, who had been the companions of his childhood and youth in countless talks in the ingle and ballads in the lanes, come second in prominence and finish; whilst the ostensible heroes and heroines of the piece, the aristocrats of Athens, are colourless and uninteresting as a dumb-show the real shadows of the play.
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