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She decided that her future husband was a man of no common intellect, seeing that he had long ago arrived at a conclusion which the rest of Melbourne were only beginning to discover now, so she determined that, as soon as she assumed marital authority, Felix, like Strephon in "Iolanthe," should go into Parliament, and with her money and his brains she might some day be the wife of a premier. Mr.
She would quite willingly have been the humblest chorus-girl in "Pinafore," if Clarence had willed to have that much-done classic. But he seemed determined to have her play a large part in whatever it was, and to have whatever it was Iolanthe. He wanted to be Strephon, it seemed; in fact, he had been. And he wanted Joy for the Phyllis or Iolanthe.
In 1225 Frederick not only married Iolanthe but followed the example of his father-in-law by taking the title of King of Jerusalem in right of his wife, who since her mother's death was lawfully Queen. On the strength of this act of self-committal he obtained another delay of two years until August, 1227, agreeing that if he did not then start he should be ipso facto excommunicate.
No doubt it's a good thing; but I don't want a monopoly of it; I wish I could pass it round. This was Alf's style of philosophy. Our friend, Iolanthe, is largely, though perhaps indirectly, responsible for it." "Yes go on," said the boundary man nervously.
"Gail, that isn't the way to do it," Clarence called to her sharply, as she danced in with the minimum of effort, in the "Good morrow, good mother" song that she had with Joy and Tiddy, respectively Iolanthe and Strephon. "Pick up your feet. You'll be down over that garland in the corner if you don't look out." "I'll pick them up tomorrow night," said Gail, pausing to answer him.
"To my mind it lies between 'Patience' and 'Iolanthe," said Clarence. "The 'Mikado' has been done to death, and so has 'Trial by Jury. And 'Princess Ida' is too full of blank verse, and the men's solos are too hard." So far as Joy was concerned nothing had been done to death.
The first week of September school opened, classes enrolled, and the business of learning again got under way. By the second week the various offshoots of educational life began to sprout, and notices were posted of the annual elections of the two "literary societies," Iolanthe and Mount Parnassus.
His 'Iolanthe' music, with its blending of things aërial with things terrene, and its contrast between the solid qualities of our hereditary legislators and the irresponsible ecstasy of fairyland is one of the most surprising feats of musical imagination that even his career can furnish. In 'Princess Ida' , which is, so to speak, a burlesque of a burlesque, his task was easier.
She had taken unto herself the part of Phyllis and was also anxious for the success of "Iolanthe." "And I myself will go with you. I'll go work my rabbit's foot on the masters. There's one over there who has already known my fatal charm." "You mean the rabbit's foot, or " "I mean that one of the masters is in love with me. The classical master. We'll work him," stated Gail brutally.
He disappeared behind the curtain with a pas and r swirl of his draperies like the Lord Chancellor in Iolanthe, and the audience again abandoned itself to applause. "How very witty he is!" said Miss Cotton, who sat near John Munt. "Don't you think he's really witty?" "Yes," Munt assented critically. "But you should have known his father." "Oh, do you know his father?" "I was in college with him."
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