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Updated: May 15, 2025
It is neither Kean nor Belcher, and I have as yet done nothing to distinguish myself like either of those individuals, or even like my friend here. However, a time may come we are not yet buried; and whensoever my hour arrives, I hope I shall prove myself equal to my destiny, however high 'Like bird that's bred amongst the Helicons'." And here a smile half-theatrical passed over his features.
Their half-theatrical exhibition reminded her of some play she had seen; they might be the clue to some story, or the mere worthless hoardings of a diseased fancy. Whatever they were, de Ferrieres did not apparently care to explain further; indeed, the next moment his manner changed to his old absurd extravagance. "But this is stupid for Mademoiselle to hear. What shall we speak of?
He took up his paletot from the chair onto which he had thrown it on his entrance, and threw it over his shoulder. Then he took his hat, and with a half-theatrical bow all round, and a smile at Sacovitch, he left the room. The hall-door banged a few seconds later, and his footstep sounded on the gravel of the path and then died away.
No less finely had he conveyed the something half-theatrical which characterized that face, the slightly affected set of the mouth, the far-off look in the eyes, the elaborate arrangement of the hair. First, I looked at this portrait; it confronted me on entering the room; then my glance fell on my stepfather in the bed.
He extended his hands stupidly. She clenched her fists. "Go now," she cried. "Go now." He hesitated and understood. He threw his hands up in a queer half-theatrical gesture. He had no word to say. He turned from her. The man in yellow moved towards the door with clumsy belated tact. But Graham stepped past him.
I made that statement, in the presence of a select few, on the promenade deck of a small coaster then plying between San Francisco and Monterey; and proved it during the eight-hour passage, to the seeming edification of my shipmates. Even the bluffs that occasionally jutted into the sea did the picturesque in a half-theatrical fashion.
Macleod opened this letter with some trepidation, for it was from London; but it was in Norman Ogilvie's handwriting. "DEAR MACLEOD, I thought you might like to hear the latest news. I cut the enclosed from a sort of half-sporting, half-theatrical paper our fellows get; no doubt the paragraph is true enough.
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