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If we can trust Fra Ilario's letter as a genuine record, which is unhappily a matter of some doubt, we have in this narration not only a picturesque, almost a melodramatically picturesque glimpse of the poet's apparition to those quiet monks in their seagirt house of peace, but also an interesting record of the destiny which presided over the first great work of literary art in a distinctly modern language.
He evaded her joke on him by assuming a careless tone. "I'm not plunging as much as I was; the snow is too deep." "When you go I want to go with you I want to see Williams." "Ha!" he snorted, melodramatically. "She scorns me faithful heart. She turns " Mrs. Field smiled faintly. "Don't joke about it, Ed. I can't get that wife out of my mind."
The avocat rubbed his hands in pleasure. He instantly divined one who knew his subject, though he talked this melodramatically: a thing not uncommon among the habitants and the professional story-tellers, but scarcely the way of the coterie. "Ah, yes, yes," he said, "for ? monsieur, for ?" He paused, as if to give himself the delight of hearing their visitor speak.
I have been warned of perils that encompass me: perils that would infest the base and insidiously scale the sides of the most inaccessible tower that man could build on the edge of the Regent's Park. A woman with a Matrimonial Purpose would be quite capable of gaining access by balloon to my turret window. Is it not my Aunt Jessica's design melodramatically to abduct me in a yacht?
For five minutes they skated in silence, then Lady Alicia began softly, “Supposing you—you went away——” “What is the use of talking of it?” he exclaimed, melodramatically. “Let me forget my short-lived hopes!” “You have a friend,” she said, slowly. “A friend who tantalises me by ‘supposings’!” “But supposing you did, Mr Beveridge, would you go back to your—did you say you had a parish?”
He had promised to telephone to Tanis that evening, and now it was melodramatically impossible. He prowled about the telephone, impulsively thrusting out a hand to lift the receiver, but never quite daring to risk it. Nor could he find a reason for slipping down to the drug store on Smith Street, with its telephone-booth.
We took our bags into the Custom House and opened them, and I sat down on mine, and immediately went to sleep. When I awoke, somebody whom I mistook at first for a Field-Marshal, and from force of habit I was once a volunteer saluted, was standing over me, pointing melodramatically at my bag. I assured him in picturesque German that I had nothing to declare.
It was a mattress, and someone was lying on it. Since that first memorable night on the tower, Mary had slept out every evening; it was a sort of manifestation of fidelity. "It gave me a fright," she went on, "to wake up and see you waving your arms and gibbering there. What on earth were you doing?" Denis laughed melodramatically. "What, indeed!" he said.
Very numerous and brilliant have also been the incursions of Jules Claretie into the theatrical domain, though he is a better novelist than playwright. He was appointed director of the Comedie Francaise in 1885. Some of them, as will be noticed, are adapted to the stage from his novels. In Le Regiment de Champagne, at least, he has written a little melodramatically.
Charlie laid himself out flat, melodramatically begging someone to take him away and hang him; but Archie, who felt worst of all, said nothing except to vow within himself that he would read to Mac till his own eyes were as red as a dozen emery bags combined. Seeing the wholesome effects of her treatment upon these culprits, Rose felt that she might relent and allow them a gleam of hope.
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