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It is perhaps just the refinement of his intellectual conscience that makes him hesitate and linger on the way, he dreads the temptation to become a dilettante, a millepede, a milleantenna, he knows too well that as a discerner, one who has lost his self-respect no longer commands, no longer LEADS, unless he should aspire to become a great play-actor, a philosophical Cagliostro and spiritual rat-catcher in short, a misleader.
He had no answer to a truth so manifest to himself. In a lightning-flash he remembered his boast in the schoolroom at the dregy, and hoped Turner had not so good a memory as himself. He could only vent his annoyance on Gilian, who drew up his horse with a studied curvet for still there was the play-actor in him to some degree. "Down again?" said he with half a sneer.
You are a play-actor that is what you are. Put it from you. Be a man. Yes, consider Nippur, and be a man. One lesson these ancient ruins teach the nothingness of fame, and that the only things in life worth while are love and duty.
Thoroughgood eyed Halfman with a sudden air of distrust. "You never told me you were a play-actor," he growled. "You spoke only of soldiering." Halfman laughed flagrantly in his face. "Godamercy, man, there has been scant time to tell you my life's story. We have had other cats to whip. Yes, I was a play-actor once, and played for great poets, for men whose names have never tickled your ears.
So that's how it stood when Jimmy lighted off his pony, and two minutes later he was holding the amber heart under his sweetheart's astonished eyes. "Good morning, James," she said. "You'm early." "What's this?" he asked, wasting no words in politeness. She was a play-actor to the roots of her being, Cora was, and she started and stared. "Not another, my dear man, surely?" she asked.
And Labouchere says that one of the four brothers of Shakespeare used to explain that he wasn't the play-actor who wrote "Hamlet" and "Othello," lest, mayhap, his name should be smirched. Galileo's mother had that beautiful dream which I believe all good mothers have: that her son might be the savior of the world. As he grew to manhood, her faith in him did not relax.
Well, if Black Michael died, and if I, the play-actor, slew Rupert Hentzau with my own hand, and then died myself, it might be that Fate would deal as lightly with Ruritania as could be hoped, notwithstanding that she demanded the life of the King and to her dealing thus with me, I was in no temper to make objection.
When the worst was over, late in the afternoon, I felt like a play-actor, dressed for his part, but who, for the life of him, could not recall one syllable of his speech, nor breathe because of his wig. Jerome surveyed me with a half-critical, half-approving scrutiny, until I essayed to buckle on my sword. "By my lady, fine sir, that dingy old cutlass will never do for a drawing-room.
"Trades! your father followed no trade, but the trade of the light-fingered gentry." "I beg your pardon, sir; my dad was a noted man in his day: a carpenter, joiner, tooth-drawer, barber, gardener, studying-master, dancing-master, whipping-master, fiddling-master, school-master, music-master, play-actor, &c. &c. all of which I am yours gentlemen to command.
For these very ministers of luxury then miscalled art from the periwig- maker to the play-actor who like them had seen the frivolity, the baseness, the profligacy, of the rulers to whose vices they pandered, whom they despised while they adored!
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