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They preferred the stage, yet condescended to say they would favour the ball, since Mrs Bellamy counselled it. "But, never, never will it turn my heart from the charming footlights!" says Maria. "What say you, sister?" "I know not. My taste is quieter than yours. I will tell you my mind the day after the ball. Poor Harry 'tis he has given us this." She would say no more, but sat thoughtful.
"Yes," she repeated, "as he's a friend of yours, just tell him I said he was to mind his own business! Lord! what does he want to come here and preach at me for! I don't want his sermons! Moral!" here she laughed rather hoarsely, "I'm as moral as any one on the stage! Who says I'm not! Take 'em all round there's not a soul behind the footlights more open and above-board than I am!"
At this very informal signal, the curtain rose upon a ridiculously small stage, and an insignificant, nervous-looking man stepped toward the footlights at the same moment that M. Fruvier and his followers entered and seated themselves in a row, their backs to the wall.
The footlights don't work just as they should " and Allen's golden hour was gone, for the moment, at least. He gazed pleadingly toward Betty, but she had put an arm about her mother Allen noticed with joy that it trembled a little and was leading the way toward the rear of the house, and out upon the lawn, where the big tent had been erected.
And through the forest the blast rang and echoed and boomed until all the tapers rose and fell, and all the footlights flickered. Instantly that red moon sank below the crest of the hill. Puffs of smoke rose in its place. Then there was borne to the waiting trio a sound of chugging.
It has the quality which Americans describe as 'punch. It has stirred the popular imagination. It has got right across the footlights. It has fetched the audience." "Awkward situation for you," I said. "We'll have to do something," said Gorman. "Arrest the ringleaders? Imprison Malcolmson?" "Lord, no. We may be fools, but we're not such fools as that." "Still," I said, "he's broken the law.
The next night brought the same experience; but when on the third night the storm arose, "Lola, in a rage, rushed down to the footlights and declared that those hisses had been set at her by the director, because she had refused certain gifts from the old Prince, his master.
I had hardly uttered the words when an Arab, who had attracted my notice by the attention he had paid to my tricks, jumped over four rows of seats, and disdaining the use of the "practicable," crossed the orchestra, upsetting flutes, clarionets, and violins, escaladed the stage, while burning himself at the footlights, and then said, in excellent French: "I will kill you!"
Duncan watched from one of the stage boxes, his vague, romantic ideas of life behind the footlights rather dashed before the three hours of hard work were over. This was not very thrilling; this had no especial romantic charm.
She had had a call, then this was what was most present to the young man as he stood for an instant in the glare of the footlights, looking blindly at the great vaguely- peopled horseshoe and greeted with plaudits which now seemed to him at once louder than he deserved and feebler than he desired.
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