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Updated: May 3, 2025
In that one moment all glamour connected with the stage fell from me, nor has it since ever returned to me. From the tawdry decorations of the auditorium to the childish make-belief littered around on the stage, I saw the Theatre a painted thing of shreds and patches the grown child's doll's-house. The Drama may improve us, elevate us, interest and teach us.
Then the lama raised his head, and looked forth across them into space and emptiness. 'And I am a Follower of the Way, he said bitterly. 'The sin is mine and the punishment is mine. I made believe to myself for now I see it was but make-belief that thou wast sent to me to aid in the Search. So my heart went out to thee for thy charity and thy courtesy and the wisdom of thy little years.
She only now teases me with those horrid French verbs, and that I know is a mere make-belief. Of course on Sunday it is different; then I must not read anything but the Bible and sermons. I don't care so much for the sermons as I ought, but I could read the Bible all day, every week-day as well as Sunday; and it is from the Bible that I learn that I ought to think less about myself."
Boys and girls played together, the girls joining in the fights and the rough games, the boys taking part in the dancing games and rings and make-belief of the girls. Annie and Paul and Arthur loved the winter evenings, when it was not wet. They stayed indoors till the colliers were all gone home, till it was thick dark, and the street would be deserted.
She only now teases me with those horrid French verbs, and that I know is a mere make-belief. Of course on Sunday it is different; then I must not read anything but the Bible and sermons. I don't care so much for the sermons as I ought, but I could read the Bible all day, every week-day as well as Sunday; and it is from the Bible that I learn that I ought to think less about myself."
She was fainted outright in her chair in the Dutch room; and he said it was the old gentleman Old Flannels, we calls him, for shortness but lor' bless you, she's too used to him to be frightened, and that's only a make-belief; and Miss Dipples, her maid, she says as how she was worse up stairs, and she's made up again with Miss Lake, which she was very glad, no doubt, of the making friends, I do suppose; but it's a bin a bad row, and I suspeck amost he's used vilins.
Sometimes, as a concession to this absurdity, he would set his table in the dining-room with his best dishes, and eat his silent meal very grandly, until the ridiculousness of it all would overcome him and he would jump up with a boyish whoop and sweep everything into the kitchen. But to-night he had no time for make-belief.
Heaven knows I need it. And you will be a little kind!" Her hands were clasped about his neck. He disengaged himself gently. "Blanche!" he cried, hoarsely, "I love another woman!" "Are you engaged to her?" "No! Not now!" "Then what does it matter? What does it matter, anyhow? It is not the real thing I am asking you for, Lawrence only the make-belief!
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