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They were as eager as two children at a pantomime, and as unconscious. As a rule, Sir Charles had found it rather difficult to meet the women of his colony on a path which they were capable of treading intelligently.
"Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves," in concluding this chapter, I may say, with "The Fair One with Golden Locks," forms to the superstitious the only two unlucky Pantomime subjects. "Sindbad, the Sailor," taken from the "Arabian Nights," has its origin in Persian and Arabian tales.
A general run off, be it observed, something like the "spill-and-pelt" scene in an English pantomime, is the legitimate and invariable termination of the Kiyôgen. The game of football is in great favour at the Japanese Court. The days on which it takes place are carefully noted in the "Daijôkwan Nishi," or Government Gazette.
I sat down, and an attentive waiter appeared at my elbow, having apparently shot up from the floor like a pantomime demon. "Monsieur desires dinner for one?" he deferentially enquired. "I am expecting one or perhaps two friends," I replied. "I will wait for them half an hour. If they do not come by the end of that time, I will dine alone." "Will Monsieur please to regard the menu?" "Yes, thanks."
Pantomime, as previously stated, kept alive for ages, after the downfall of the Roman Empire, the Dramatic Art, and during the Commonwealth of this country, it practically did the same for us. Cox's exhibitions, known as "Humours" or "Drolleries," were collected by Marsh, and reprinted by Francis Kirkman, the author and book-seller.
He was standing in the window, and caught a glimpse of Bessie Gottley, who was passing at the moment on the opposite side of the road, and looked across at him, smiling and nodding invitingly. Mrs. Caldwell saw the pantomime, and her heart contracted with a pang when she saw how readily her husband responded.
Sometimes she performed a pantomime with Paul, after the manner of the negroes. The first language of man is pantomime: it is known to all nations, and is so natural and expressive, that the children of the European inhabitants catch it with facility from the negroes.
It wouldn't do at all. I must think it over. "I suppose you want that great blue-coated bear to go?" and she nodded at Tim Doyle who not being able to speak a word of her language was always indulging in the most absurd pantomime of love and devotion; causing screams of laughter to the merry German girl. "Yes, Tim must go too, Christine." "Ha, ha!" laughed the girl. "Fancy him as a woman."
So far as they could make themselves understood, though very unskilful interpreters, they represented the country as abounding in silver, gold and precious stones. In pantomime they described the process of mining and smelting the precious metals so accurately that experienced miners were convinced that they must have witnessed those operations.
Had I been able to tap myself beforehand I should have learned that on that particular Saturday I was going to be "set-serious." Instead of booking a seat for the pantomime I should have gone to a lecture on Egyptian pottery which was being given by a friend of mine at the London Library, and have had a good time.
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