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The ring looked small and lonely; its circle of empty benches seemed to stare intently at it, as though some sort of unseen performance were going on for the benefit of a ghostly audience.
I had no liking for the gauntlet performance, and refused to have anything to do with it, as did most, if not all, of my crowd. While the gauntlet was in operation, I was standing by my tent at the head of a little street, about two hundred feet from the line, watching what was being done. A sailor was let in.
But, by both performance and effacement, she had been not a little bored, having a natural liking for the limelight. She, therefore, hit out to regret her indiscretion the next moment. "Nothing nothing," she prettily added. "I beg your pardon, Marshall, but I quite thought those cups would fall off the table So stupid of me."
I had to go up to the Roehunters' again and again to learn my part of the performance. And there it was, Rosalie dear, that I met your father. He was one of the actors whom they employed. 'You can guess what came next, my darling.
This answere we had the sixt day: and the seuenth in the fornoone we arriued in the English port, and cast anker aloofe from the other ships: which done, I went aboord the Admirall, to desire the performance of his promise: who sent for Iohannes de Harte, who was contented to restore most of our things againe: whereupon I went aboord his ship to haue them restored.
On election nights it is customary for the manager to read or have read to the audience the returns as fast as they come in from various points, showing how the voting has gone. An election was just over, when one evening a small incident occurred during a performance of "Miss Multon" that we would gladly have dispensed with.
It is provoking to be so near the end of our voyage, and blown back when almost in sight of port. 14th May. After four days of contrary wind, it changed again, and we are now right for Melbourne. Our last theatrical performance came off with great éclat.
Through his peculiar style of performance, Chopin imparted this constant rocking with the most fascinating effect; thus making the melody undulate to and fro, like a skiff driven on over the bosom of tossing waves.
The performance was much like all acrobatic displays; but it must be confessed that the Japanese are the first equilibrists in the world.
Ford if the staff discovered any signs of literary promise in that funny little performance. At all events, my literary ambitions, with this solitary exercise, came to a sudden suspension. I have no recollection of having written or of having wanted to write anything more for a long time. I was not in the least a precocious young person, and very much of a tomboy into the bargain.
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