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"No more than the soldiers were yesterday," said McNeice. "They fired over our heads." "And we're not going to stand any more fooling," said Malcolmson. "We're business men," said Cahoon, "and this sort of play-acting won't do for Belfast." "Your boss politicians," said Conroy, "have been flooding us out with telegrams."
Spriggs bounced up from his chair and stood over him with his fists clinched. Mr. Price glared defiance. "If you're so partikler you can make it up to him," he said, slowly. "You've been a saving man, I know, and Emma 'ad a bit left her that I ought to have 'ad. When you've done play-acting I'll go to bed. So long!" He got up, yawning, and walked to the door, and Mr.
"In the name of Heaven," demanded Kenny, shocked, "why not? It's a beautiful thing like the play-acting of a dryad!" "My mother," said the girl in a low voice, "was on the stage." Her challenging eyes, big and wistful, fanned his chivalry into reckless flame. The need of the hour was peculiar. There was little room for fact.
With a sharp cry the lieutenant dropped to his knees. "He can't be dead!" he shrilled. "It is all play-acting, to frighten me!" Frantically he sought to turn the body over. Lanyard's hand shot swiftly out, capturing the automatic on the table.
"Too seriously? I can't stop at make-believe, when once I begin," she replied. "You know I hate all play-acting and comedy. You have wished it. Was it my idea or yours? Did I persuade you or did you inflame my imagination? I am taking things seriously now." "Wanda," I replied, caressingly, "listen quietly to me.
Such a mode of reading, and indeed generally in a man of such vivacity the total absence of all gifts for play-acting or artistic mimicry in any kind, was a noticeable point. After much consultation, it was settled at last that Sterling should go to Madeira for the winter.
He has a boyish pleasure in play-acting; he has an interest in life; being a villain is his hobby. But the true man of that type had found all hobbies fail him. He had wearied of himself as he had wearied of a hundred women. He was graceful and could not even admire himself in the glass. He was witty and could not even laugh at his own jokes. Dickens could never understand tedium.
Around the hoary walls of the Temple cluster memories of many a strange custom or quaint observance. The revels at Yule-tide, St. Stephen's Day, New Year's Day, and Twelfth Night were not surpassed anywhere in "merrie England." Feasts, masques, and play-acting at various times greatly scandalized the more sober and staid among the benchers.
The truth of the matter is, the beautiful Princess Blanka is at this moment lying dead in the mountains of Transylvania." The prince recoiled. "Young man, I forbid you to indulge in such ill-chosen jests." Benjamin rose and made a low bow. "Such a lack of respect as a jest of that sort to my master and benefactor is an utter impossibility." "Well, then, sit down, and let us have no play-acting.
I wouldn't stir up the business and get a bad name for the sake of living with her for all that about your play-acting is sure to come out, you know, although you think otherwise. My eyes and limbs, there'll be a racket if you go back just now in the middle of Bold- wood's Christmasing!" "H'm, yes.
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