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"The sceptres and crowns of those play-actor emperors," said Sancho, "were never yet pure gold, but only brass foil or tin."
"Courtois," she said, next day at noon, "just go in and see whether that young man is dead or alive; he has been lying there these fourteen hours." The miller was busy spreading out his fishing-nets and lines. "It is my belief," he said, "that the pretty fellow yonder is some starveling play-actor without a brass farthing to bless himself with."
Look to thine own attire. Come, where hast put it?" Rebecca put her hands on her hips and looked into her sister's face with a stern determination. "Ef you think I'm agoin' to put on play-actor clothes an' go round lookin' indecent, Phoebe Wise, why, you're mistaken 'cause I ain't so there!" "Nay, nurse!" Phoebe exclaimed, earnestly. "'Tis the costume thou art wearing now that is mummer's weeds.
"You have what you know of in your hands. If you yield, on my honor I will save your life." "You don't desire my blood, then, most forgiving play-actor?" "So much, that I daren't fail to offer you life," answered Rudolf Rassendyll. "Come, sir, your plan has failed: give up the letter." Rupert looked at him thoughtfully. "You'll see me safe off if I give it you?" he asked.
Beyle, for instance, was capable of writing, in one of those queer epitaphs of himself which he was constantly composing, the high-falutin' words 'Il respecta un seul homme: Napoléon'; and yet, as he wrote them, he must have remembered well enough that when he met Napoleon face to face his unabashed scrutiny had detected swiftly that the man was a play-actor, and a vulgar one at that.
What's the direction, I'm asking? 'I'm going to be a dramatist, said Paul. 'A play-actor! cried the mother, who was back again. 'A play-writer, Paul corrected. 'I've got the best tutor in the world. 'Do you mean to tell me, his mother asked, 'that you think o' making that a trade for a lifetime? 'Why not? asked Pau. 'Why not, indeed! she cried, with an angry click of her knitting-needle.
"His father was a Portygee or Spaniard, I believe is right and he was a play-actor, one of those what do you call 'em? opera singers." Fosdick seemed surprised and interested. "Oh, indeed," he exclaimed, "an opera singer? . . . Why, he wasn't Speranza, the baritone, was he?" "Maybe; I believe he was. He married my daughter and well, we won't talk about him, if you don't mind."
Be that as it may, the Millses engaged Peter special, and brought him down with a great retainer, in a chaise and four, flags flying, and favors in the postillions' hats, and a fiddler on the roof playing the 'hare in the corn. The inn was illuminated the same evening, and Peter made a speech from the windows upon the liberty of the press and religious freedom all over the globe, and there wasn't a man in the mob didn't cheer him, which was the more civil, because few of them knew a word of English, and the others thought he was a play-actor.
To be ashamed of one's immorality is a step on the ladder at the end of which one is ashamed also of one's morality. One should part from life as Ulysses parted from Nausicaa blessing it rather than in love with it. What? A great man? I always see merely the play-actor of his own ideal. When one trains one's conscience, it kisses one while it bites.
But when the general Life-element becomes so unspeakably phantasmal as under Louis XV., it is difficult for any man to be real; to be other than a play-actor, more or less eminent, and artistically dressed.
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