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"And thirdly," said Edward Henry, "every member of the audience even in the boxes, the most expensive seats will have a full view of the whole of the stage or, in the alternative, at matinées, a full view of a lady's hat." "Alderman," said Sir John, gravely, "before I offer you another egg, let me warn you against carrying remarkableness too far.
It is August, and there is rejoicing in Leith. There is no doubt now that the campaign of the people progresses; no need any more for the true accounts of the meetings, in large print, although these are still continued. The reform rallies resemble matinees no longer, and two real reporters accompany Mr. Crewe on his tours.
He came the whole way from Hartford to go with me to a friendless play of mine, which Alessandro Salvini was giving in a series of matinees to houses never enlarging themselves beyond the count of the brave two hundred who sat it through, and he stayed my fainting spirit with a cheer beyond flagons, joining me in my joke at the misery of it, and carrying the fun farther.
For the benefit of schoolboy nephews with exeats, she must have an intimate acquaintance with the Hippodrome, any exhibition going, every place of instruction, of a kind, or amusement. She must be thoroughly up in matinees, and know what plays are frightfully exciting, and she must have a nice taste in sweets. She need not necessarily eat them; it is perhaps better if she does not.
Rich women came in their automobiles and carriages to take her driving, and she was taken to concerts and matinees. She was learnin' stenography, and they were going to help her to a position just as soon as she could take it. Everybody was wonderfully good to her, she said, and showed they wanted to help her in every way. But she said something else, too.
Fashion had decreed that the correct hour for dancing was 11 A.M., and matinees dansantes were regularly given at the hotels, our grandmothers appearing in decollete muslin frocks adorned with broad sashes, and disporting themselves gayly until the dinner hour.
Jonah examined the instrument with the interest of a musician, surprised by the enormous tubes, packed stiffly in rows, the plaything of a giant; but he still kept an eye on the pair that were being married, with the nervous interest of a criminal watching an execution. The women, to whom weddings were an afternoon's distraction, like the matinees of the richer, stared about the building.
Martie, her splendid square little son leaning on her shoulder, the veiled bundle of blankets that was Margaret safely sleeping in the crib, her handsome husband dressing for "a party," felt herself a blessed and happy woman. Frequently, when he was not playing, they went to matinees, afterward drifting out into the five o'clock darkness to join the Broadway current.
Then she began to go to musicales and dramatic matinees at the Temple of Art, finding a wide range of novel diversion at these little functions and making some acquaintances worth while. "And as soon as spring is fairly here," said her indefatigable mother, "she shall join a good golf club; and then things will really have begun to move." But things had begun to move already.
The Saturday evening train from the city is always crowded with people from the river towns who have been up to market or the matinées, and even the smoker was filled with standing men until they got some thirty miles down.
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