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That metaphor is false, because upon a stage the audience knows that it is all play-acting, and actually sees the figures. Let any man of reasonable competence soberly and simply describe the scene in the House of Commons when some one of the ordinary professional politicians is speaking. It would not be an exciting description. The truth here would not be a violent or dangerous truth.
To be the object of the oafish affections of such a creature, even when they are honest and profound, cannot be expected to give any genuine joy to a woman of sense and refinement. His performance as a gallant, as Honor de Balzac long ago observed, unescapably suggests a gorilla's efforts to play the violin. Women survive the tragicomedy only by dint of their great capacity for play-acting.
'And, do ye see, don't ye come up till I pass, for I'm no hand at play-acting; an' if you called me "sir," or was coming it dignified and distant, you know, I'd be sure to laugh, a'most, and let all out. So good-bye, d'ye see, and if you want me again be sharp to time, mind. From habit he looked about for his dogs, but he had not brought one.
It is a mystical idea that is to him no more than a mystery. But the same is true touching what may be called the lighter side of the more civilised sentiment. This hard and literal view of life gives no place for that slight element of a magnanimous sort of play-acting, which has run through all our tales of true lovers in the West.
I'm surprised that you are even wet. There, there, breathe naturally, child. The play-acting is unnecessary. I remember, when I was a young girl, traveling in India, there was a school of fakirs who leaped into deep wells and stayed down much longer than you, child, much longer indeed." "You knew!" Paula charged. "But you didn't know I did," her Aunt retorted.
It was the accent of the boy who had had two tutors and a big garden, a place in the King's water-party, and a knowledge of what it means to belong to a noble house. The pawnbroker looked at him. With the unerring instinct of his race, he knew that this was not play-acting, that there was something behind it something real.
You think that I don't practice what I preach; that I introduce within those sacred precincts too much of play-acting and small diplomacy, as Jane says; that even at this moment my thoughts and intentions in a matter which concerns us all are imperfectly revealed to my nearest and dearest?
That would give him a companion of his own like, they would come closer to understanding one another than he could ever hope to find understanding elsewhere. So he talked and played with Martha in his moments of relaxation. And he found her grasp of life completely unreal. James could not get through to her. He could not make her stop play-acting in everything that she did not ignore completely.
The peasants and fishermen of the Garda, even the rows of ungovernable children, sat absorbed in watching as the Norwegian drama unfolded itself. The actors are peasants. The leader is the son of a peasant proprietor. He is qualified as a chemist, but is unsettled, vagrant, prefers play-acting. The Signer Pietro di Paoli shrugs his shoulders and apologizes for their vulgar accent.
If you will inform me what it is, we can very quickly terminate the interview." She laughed, a little touch of nervousness in the voice, but drew her skirts aside, and sat down on the bench. "Do you think you can deceive me by such play-acting?" she asked eagerly. "You are no man of wood. Tell me, is there nothing you care to ask me, after after all these years?"
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