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I made tiny cakes, and tarts of curious shapes, when she was busy pastry-making, and did some clear-starching on my doll's account when Elspeth was "getting-up" my great-grandfather's cravats. Elspeth had strong old-fashioned notions of paying respect where it was due.
Some idea of the magnificence of these displays, which beggared the royal privy-purse, drove household-treasurers mad, and often left poet and machinist whistling for pay, may be gathered from the fact that a masque sometimes cost as much as two thousand pounds in the mechanical getting-up, a sum far more formidable in the days of exclusively hard money than in these of paper currency.
The Spectacle, though an attraction, is the least artistic of all the parts, and has least to do with the art of poetry. The tragic effect is quite possible without a public performance and actors; and besides, the getting-up of the Spectacle is more a matter for the costumier than the poet.
Marvyn stood, with a pleased, quiet welcome in her soft, brown eyes. Mrs. Scudder herself drove, sitting on a seat in front, while the Doctor, apparelled in the most faultless style, with white wrist-ruffles, plaited shirt-bosom, immaculate wig, and well-brushed coat, sat by Mary's side, serenely unconscious how many feminine cares had gone to his getting-up.
Nance held her breath and for the first time in her eleven years saw the sun rise. When getting-up time came, she went with eighteen other girls into a big, warm dressing-room. "This is your locker," said the girl in charge. "My whut?" asked Nance. "Your locker, where you put your clothes."
I woke in the morning at my usual time, between three and four o'clock, which is not my getting-up time, for, as a rule, after half an hour or so I sleep again.
If the conditions were reversed, I suppose the getting-up time of the two men would be changed accordingly. 'Not at all, George not at all. I would rise early whether anybody else on board did or not. In fact, when I got on deck this morning, I expected to have it to myself. 'I take it, though, that you were not grievously disappointed when you found you hadn't a monopoly?
And then waltzed in and cussed HIMSELF awhile, and said it all come of him not laying late and taking his natural rest that morning, and he'd be blamed if he'd ever do it again. So they went off a-jawing; and I felt dreadful glad I'd worked it all off on to the niggers, and yet hadn't done the niggers no harm by it. BY and by it was getting-up time.
Next morning after the getting-up bell had been rung, and I had roused myself to full consciousness, I found that four or five nuns were standing together near the door of the dormitory talking about something that had happened during the night Sister Angela had gone!
"Got to make an early start," replied his host. "Come and stir up old Harry." Harry was noted as a sleeper. Pillows hurled on top of him were as nought. The bedclothes were removed, but he turned on his side and slumbered like a little child. "And to think," Wally said, "that that chap springs up madly when the getting-up bell rings once at school!" "School was never like this," Jim grinned.
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