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Well, Augustus, what's on your mind?" The simple question seemed to take the stage-hand aback. "Wot's on my mind? I'll tell you wot's on my blinking mind . . ." "Don't tell me. Let me guess. I've got it! The place is on fire!" The stage-hand expectorated disgustedly. Flippancy at such a moment offended his sensibilities. "We're 'opping it," he said. "Great minds think alike!
I have said to myself that something must be done. Chance has shown me the way. One afternoon I am by fortune alone in the 'all. In his cage the parrot Polly is 'opping. I address him through the bars. 'Move and I shoot I' he has cried. The tears have filled my eyes. 'Ow it has brought the 'ole scene back to me! As I weep, I perceive the cat Alexander approaching. I have formed a plan.
I have reached the passage, and have shouted for assistance. Hotel officials run up. Doors open. 'What is it? voices cry. 'There is in my room an armed robber, I assure them. And then I have found no, I am mistaken. My door, you will understand, is open. And as I have said these words, a large green parrot comes 'opping out. My assassin is nothing but a green parrot.
One or two of the principals were standing perplexedly in the lower entrance. The O. P. side had been given over by general consent to Mr Goble for his perambulations. Every now and then he would flash into view through an opening in the scenery. "I understood that tonight was the night for the great revival of comic opera. Where are the comics, and why aren't they opping?"
The other signalers were shuffling their feet anxiously and looking about them. "Are we going to stick it here?" said one. "Didn't the sergeant say something about 'opping it?" "If he did," said the other, "he hasn't given any orders that I've heard. I suppose he'll come back and do that, and we've just got to carry on till then."
Where are they?" "He 'ad 'em on this evening," ses Bob Pretty, "'cos I remember noticing 'em." "They must be somewhere about," ses Mr. Cutts; "why don't you use your eyes?" He walked up and down, peering about, and as for Lewis he was 'opping round 'arf crazy. "I wonder," ses Bob Pretty, in a thoughtful voice, to Smith "I wonder whether you or Mr.
Where are they?" "He 'ad 'em on this evening," ses Bob Pretty, "'cos I remember noticing 'em." "They must be somewhere about," ses Mr. Cutts; "why don't you use your eyes?" He walked up and down, peering about, and as for Lewis he was 'opping round 'arf crazy. "I wonder," ses Bob Pretty, in a thoughtful voice, to Smith "I wonder whether you or Mr.
Now all you writing chaps, you know, you're not in it, you're not in it at all. You're simply 'opping and dodging round the outside you 'aven't a chance of really seeing the show. Whereas look at me. I go and take my seat plump down in the middle of the stage box. I've got my ear to the heart of 'Umanity and my 'and on its pulse. I've got a grip of realities. You say you want to por-tray life.
I warned him that, so far as I could see, I would never change it; but if an "optimist will op" as Tony remarked what can you do? You can't prevent his opping, and rather than hear an irrevocable word he bade me good-bye while I protested. This was in the midst of what should have been his second dance, and I didn't feel equal to going indoors again directly after that scene, even to tango.
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