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The colours of Harlequin's dress had every one a significance, as follows: Red, temper; blue, love; yellow, jealousy; brown or mauve, constancy. When Harlequin wore his mask down he was supposed to be invisible.
It was the royal purse that ruled them. The King was the fountain of patronage; wealth and honors flowed from him; and the wealth and the honors welded the King's friends together into a harmonious and formidable whole. The King's friends found themselves well represented in a Ministry that was otherwise as much a thing of shreds and patches as a harlequin's coat.
I can guess very well how the scene showed that night in the moonbeams all the city stretched out below, a harlequin's coat of black and silver, according to the disposition of the homes and the open spaces with their lights and shadows.
Her relations with the doctor were almost common talk. That was amply proved by the fury with which the gentlemen of her coterie pulled him to pieces, declaring that he was an idiot and that his book was a Harlequin's coat, a series of excerpts from other men, poorly basted together, with the daring of ignorance.
We have said before, could we know the man's feelings as well as the author's thoughts how interesting most books would be! more interesting than merry. I suppose harlequin's face behind his mask is always grave, if not melancholy certainly each man who lives by the pen, and happens to read this, must remember, if he will, his own experiences, and recall many solemn hours of solitude and labor.
Then came a cue of music like an avalanche, and quicker than Harlequin's wink the aisle was clean. "Gad!" said Mr. Loeb, his strong profile thrust forward and a light on it. "That little one with the black curls? Say! You can put her on your watch-fob and take her home." "Wouldn't mind!" said Mr. Loeb. "You and Moe Marx are like all the women-haters.
Strong's chambers in Shepherd's Inn. Numbers of the colonel's friends were present on the occasion to congratulate him on his luck all Altamont's own set, and the gents who met in the private parlor of the convivial Wheeler, my host of the Harlequin's Head, came to witness their comrade's good fortune, and would have liked, with a generous sympathy for success, to share in it.
At another part of the course you might have seen a vehicle, certainly more modest, if not more shabby than that battered coach which had brought down the choice spirits from the Harlequin's Head; this was cab No. 2002, which had conveyed a gentleman and two ladies from the cab-stand in the Strand: whereof one of the ladies, as she sate on the box of the cab enjoying with her mamma and their companion a repast of lobster-salad and bitter ale, looked so fresh and pretty that many of the splendid young dandies who were strolling about the course, and enjoying themselves at the noble diversion of sticks, and talking to the beautifully dressed ladies in the beautiful carriages on the hill, forsook these fascinations to have a glance at the smiling and rosy-cheeked lass on the cab.
In the French Comedies Columbine was often Harlequin's wife, but she never had the powers of a magical wand. In the old form of Pantomime there were many other personages in these dumb shows which we never had in the English Pantomimes.
The Harlequin Cecchini composed the most ancient treatise on this subject, and was ennobled by the Emperor Matthias; and Nicholas Barbieri, for his excellent acting called the Beltrame, a Milanese simpleton, in his treatise on comedy, tells us that he was honoured by the conversation of Louis XIII., and rewarded with fortune. A sketch of Harlequin's original part is worth recording.
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