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Not only did he talk to every one, and permit his fascinating Spanish-Arab bride to talk, but he let himself be interviewed by newspapers. Perhaps all this was a good advertisement in a way; but he was making a succes fou, and did not need advertisement. Genuinely and sincerely he was baring his heart and bringing his wife into the garish limelight because of his passionate gratitude to Max St.
Analyzing the two I have met the majority one strikes me as being transparently affected and the other a stubborn, attractive fool. They are equally untrained in diplomacy and unable to cover their real feelings. Here am I, practically dragging them into the limelight, when it would be far better for themselves perhaps for me that they remained in oblivion.
Bob Vernon too, whose fancy for her, as shown in various winter dances, had made her immensely proud, he being then in that momentary limelight which flashes on the Blue, as he passes over the Oxford scene Vernon had scarcely had a word for her. She never knew that he cared about pictures! And there was Connie knowing everything about pictures! able to talk about everything!
"Because they are the people who do all the hard work and get no limelight like like !" "Like Second Lieutenants eh?" "Yes, that is the idea. They have a pretty hard time, you know," continued Bobby confidentially: "And nothing heroic, either. Giving up all the fun that a girl is entitled to; washing dishes; answering the door-bell; running up and downstairs; eating rotten food.
"They all did it," she said; "but if credit is due to any one of them it must be given to Allen for reaching you first." "Nonsense!" said Allen, abashed at being brought into the limelight. "I was nearer than the other fellows, that's all. What's the use of talking about it, anyway?" "There is a good deal of use, I think," the girl answered softly.
He looked up to see Ned. "Hello, Tom!" cried his chum. "Have you heard the news?" "No, what news? Has Andy Foger fallen out of his airship?" "No, but there are a whole lot of Custom House detectives in town, looking for clews to the smugglers." "Still at it, eh? Shopton can't seem to keep out of the limelight. Has anything new turned up?" "Yes. I just met Mr. Whitford.
Elderly Sisters Trippet, having failed to arouse our enthusiasm by allowing us a brief glimpse of an ankle, would put aside all frivolity, and tell us of a hero lover named George, who had fought somebody somewhere for his Queen and country. "He fell!" bang from the big drum and blue limelight. In a recumbent position he appears to have immediately started singing "God save the Queen."
The comic weekly, indeed, helped to build up his reputation by the almost inexplicable bitterness of its invective. Another potent force was in his favour. From the beginning he set himself to play the game of the popular actor, and neglected no opportunity of turning the limelight on his own doings.
The current thus produced passing through the carbon pillars, produces a splendid light, entirely eclipsing all other modes of illumination. Years ago a limelight was so arranged as to be used on board ship for illuminating objects at a great distance. By its means, an intended attack of torpedo vessels could be detected.
There are thousands of similar stories which could be told in the world to-day, but the pathos of each one is not diminished by that. It was the story of the ordinary man who died that others might live. He did not die in the limelight; he just died and was buried and his name, in due course appeared in the casualty list. . . . Not that Vane put it that way.
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