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He managed to get his name involved in all sorts of unsavory speculations on the stock exchange and in gambling scandals, invariably, it is true, as a victim; while at least three foreign footlight favorites were expelled from Germany by the police on account of the scandals created by his association with them.
Nor is this the only occasion on which the General speaks of his willingness to share the fate of his army. What corporal could do less? No man thoroughly in earnest, and with the fate of his country in his hands and no thought but of that, could have any place in his mind for such footlight phrases as these.
"Go on," said Lewisham, with the debating-society taste for a thesis prevailing for a minute over that matter of the roses. "In youth, exercise and learning; in adolescence, ambition; and in early manhood, love no footlight passion." Chaffery was very solemn and insistent, with a lean extended finger, upon this point.
Delobelle had not acted for a long time; but having, as he said, no right to abandon the stage, he kept his mania alive by clinging to a number of the strolling player's habits, and the supper on returning home was one of them, as was his habit of delaying his return until the last footlight in the boulevard theatres was extinguished.
"Fanny!" she said severely, "what have you been doing to that man?" "Oh, nothing!" said Fanny. "If you've put him off singing I'll never forgive you!" continued Mrs. Carteret, advancing on her knees to the next footlight. "I tell you I've done nothing to him," said Fanny Fitz guiltily. "Give me the hammer!" said Mrs. Carteret. "Have I eyes, or have I not?" "He's awfully keen about her!" Mrs.
The footlight effect softened her prominently-boned face and struck some of the over-strong colour from her cheeks she showed a faint hint of the prettiness that had attracted the old Squire. "An' who is it you'm thinken' will be at the door for 'ee to kiss when you get in wi' the Neck?" she asked grimly. Archelaus shuffled from one big foot to the other.
"I've just got another cob," he said quickly; "she jumps very well, and if you'd like to hunt her next Tuesday " "Oh, thanks awfully, but Captain Carteret has promised me a mount for next Tuesday!" said the perfidious Fanny. Mrs. Carteret, on her knees by a refractory footlight, watched with anxiety Mr. Gunning's abrupt departure from the room.
So much of fault we find; but on the other side the impartial critic rejoices to remark the presence of a great unity of gusto; of those direct clap-trap appeals, which a man is dead and buriable when he fails to answer; of the footlight glamour, the ready-made, bare-faced, transpontine picturesque, a thing not one with cold reality, but how much dearer to the mind!
And you will try to snatch poor Amarilly, too, from her footlight dreams?" "Colette," he replied firmly, "you can't play a part with me any longer. You, the real Colette, made it unnecessary for me to remonstrate with Amarilly on her choice of professions. She is wavering because of your assurance that there are better things in life for her to engage in."
But her solitude did not long continue; there came into view a gentleman of would-be venerable appearance, who approached her with a walk carefully constructed for public admiration, and who, upon reaching her, bent over with the same sort of footlight elaboration and gave her a paternal kiss.
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