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Updated: June 25, 2025
"I'll lay my wage an' share 'tis more'n half play-actin' to him, an' he consates himself he's a bowld mariner. Watch his little bit av a back now!" "That's the way we all begin," said Tom Platt. "The boys they make believe all the time till they've cheated 'emselves into bein' men, an' so till they die pretendin' an' pretendin'. I done it on the old Ohio, I know.
Women are so dashed fond of play-actin'! Kids, Saxham, that's what they are in their weakness for dressin' up and makin'-believe! And my wife " The large Major was in a violent lather as he ran the thick finger round inside his collar, and swallowed at the lump in his throat. " My wife saw Van Busch at Kink's hotel at Tweipans from time to time.
"Well, if ever I see picters, I see 'em now, and I declare to goodness it's as interestin' as play-actin', every bit. Miss Di, with all them boughs in her head, looks like the Queen of Sheby, when she went a-visitin' What's-his-name; and if Miss Laura a'n't as sweet as a lally-barster figger, I should like to know what is."
The big brawny fisherman came nearer to Dotty and scowled at her. "I seen you jumping around there and play-actin' like you was wild with grief! Don't deny it, now! Ye know well enough I say true!" He glowered at Dotty, and as he came nearer to her his big fierce eyes frightened her and she quickly stepped behind Tod. "Don't you speak to the lady like that!" the boy cried.
You'd scacely hav recognized my fair form, so kiverd was I with dust. Bimeby I met Old Poodles, the all-firdist gambler in the country. He was afoot and in his shirt-sleeves, and was in a wuss larther nor any race hoss I ever saw. "Whither goist thow, sweet nimp?" sez I, in a play-actin tone. "To the mines, Sir," he unto me did say, "to the mines, TO EARN AN HONEST LIVIN."
It made my ears tingle when Hannah took me to Drury Lane. I longed to take a stick in my hand an' lay it about 'em. So you're a play-actin' miss are ye? I'm sorry for it." "I can't help that, Mrs. Higgins. One must do something besides there's good and bad folk wherever you go." "Aye, an' ye haven't got to go from here neither. A pack o' bad 'uns, men and women, come to Hampstead.
Rollin' aboot wrap up in furs in a great caur, patronisin' everybody that's daft enough to let theirselves be patronised by her. Onybody could see she's no used to it. She's so ta'en up wi' hersel'. It's kinda play-actin' for her ... An' there's naebody gives less to charitable objects.
As fer me, I'd sooner be seen in my nightgown than in the flighty, flitter-scatter duds the women 'round here wear. Not but you look good enough in 'em, if you'd cover your chest, but play-actin' is meant for young folks not fer old maids like me." "Nay but " "What the lands sakes d'ye holler neigh all the time fer? I'm not agoin' to neigh, an' you might's well make up your mind to't."
With this the man burst into a shout of laughter and slapped his thigh until his face grew purple with merriment. "What d'ye think of it, boy, for a rare farce? Was ever the likes of it heard? Captain Antonius Merrydew sick in the Bay o' Biscay! Ho, ho! Where's play-actin' beside it?" "Wasn't it true, sir?" "True? God bless the boy!
The idea that she should even think of marrying a play-actor was unbelievable. The captain had never attended the performance of an opera; what was more, he never expected to attend one. He had been given to understand that a "parcel of play-actin' men and women hollered and screamed to music for a couple of hours."
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