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Before that time he sometimes went to his home; he often spent the afternoon with Geraldine, but he was not usually about the house in the morning. So Lance, in a fever of impatience, wandered till he hunted him down writing letters in the coffee-room at the Fortinbras Arms. 'Jack, I say, come and have a walk. 'Pleasant weather! 'You want to be watered, after all that parching in India.
There is a cowardice which we do not despise, because it has nothing base or treacherous in its elements; it betrays itself, not you: it is mere temperament; the absence of the romantic and the enterprising; it sees a lion in the way, and will not, with Fortinbras, "greatly find quarrel in a straw," when some supposed honour is at stake.
The dread appearance of the Ghost takes possession of the mind and the imagination almost at the very commencement; then the play within the play, in which, as in a glass, we see reflected the crime, whose fruitlessly attempted punishment constitutes the subject-matter of the piece; the alarm with which it fills the King; Hamlet's pretended and Ophelia's real madness; her death and burial; the meeting of Hamlet and Laertes at her grave; their combat, and the grand determination; lastly, the appearance of the young hero Fortinbras, who, with warlike pomp, pays the last honours to an extinct family of kings; the interspersion of comic characteristic scenes with Polonius, the courtiers, and the grave-diggers, which have all of them their signification, all this fills the stage with an animated and varied movement.
The grave-digger is a philosopher, he thinks that Fortinbras is at hand, that the best investment for his money will be in Norwegian bonds. The funeral cortège approaches. Hamlet hides. His soliloquy upon the skull of Yorick has been partly done into English by Mr. Symons. "Alas, poor Yorick!
How strong the need is, how seductive the proposal to supply it, Celia knew well. She knew it from the experience of her life when the Great Fortinbras was at the climax of his fortunes. She had travelled much amongst monotonous, drab towns without character or amusements. She had kept her eyes open.
They made each other out as they were leaving their bags at the Fortinbras Arms, and arrived together in marked contrast the tall, dark, regular-featured, soft- eyed Life-guardsman, and the little sandy, freckled, sun-dried engineer; and thus two courtships had to be carried on in the two rooms, only supplemented by the narrow parallelogram of a garden!
'Yes, low and awe-struck, said Wilmet. 'Not here. No. There's nothing to be frightened at Cherry. It is out out there. I think it must be the Fortinbras Arms. Oh, what a sight! 'It is dreadful! said Cherry, shrinking trembling to the foot of her little bed, whence she could see the window. 'How plain one can see everything in the room! Oh! the terrible red glow in the windows!
'Felix, the Fortinbras Arms is on fire. Hush, Lance; take care; the little ones and Mamma! O Felix, do come to our room. They followed her there in a few seconds, but they had only glanced from the window before they simultaneously rushed away, to the increased dismay of their sisters, to whom their manly instinct of rushing into the fray had not occurred. 'I'll go down.
He did not make any resistance; but as they landed from the ladder, threw his arm round Wilmet, and leant against her with a sort of lazy mischievous tenderness, as he said, 'Isn't the Froggery wanted for somebody else? and tried to look up in her face. 'Ferdinand always goes to the Fortinbras Arms, answered Wilmet, with admirable composure.
For when, after the battle, they count the dead, the Priest finds in the sea-grass among other bodies that of this old Lord.... ... and Hugh that trusted in his glass, But rode not home the day; Whose title was the Fortinbras With the Lords of his Array.
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