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On this, their opening march, they rushed into the bazaar with great energy, and though they bore no resemblance to the characters named in the playbill, and though there was among them neither a Godiva, a Hector, a Tom Thumb, or a Japanese, nevertheless, as they were dressed in paint and armour after the manner of the late Mr Richardson's heroes, and as most of the ladies had probably been without previous opportunity of seeing such delights, they had their effect.
As was usual with him when he felt strongly, he adopted a character rôle, and his handsome face wore a more than usually beneficent and great-minded expression upon it as he walked with his fine erect carriage through the village that night; while it would hardly have required a playbill of dramatis personae to indicate the fact that the canon was living the part of the Vicar of Wakefield in the supreme moment when he visits Olivia in prison.
"A gloomy wood," according to the one playbill, was represented by a few shrubs in pots, green baize on the floor, and a cave in the distance. This cave was made with a clothes horse for a roof, bureaus for walls, and in it was a small furnace in full blast, with a black pot on it and an old witch bending over it.
Poor Knud seized his master's hand, and called out aloud, "Joanna!" but no one heard but the master, who nodded his head, for the loud music sounded above everything. "Yes, yes, her name is Joanna," said the master; and he drew forth a printed playbill, and showed Knud her name for the full name was printed there. No, it was not a dream!
The door-keeper departed up a dark passage, and Easleby pointed Starmidge to a playbill which hung, framed on the wall, behind them. "There you are!" he said, indicating a line near the big capitals at the top. "'Lessee and Manager Mr. Leopold Castlemayne. That's our man. Fancy name, of course real name Tom Smith, or Jim Johnson, you know. But, Lord bless you, what's in a name?
She had told him on the way over that her mother had chosen her name from a theatrical playbill, and it passed through his unsophisticated brain that she might be thinking of the stage. "Yes, do something worth while. Be somebody. I've had the idea I could, if I ever got the chance."
On the immense tray, which the waiter brought in, there lay also a playbill. Maria Nikolaevna snatched it up at once. 'A drama! she pronounced with indignation, 'a German drama. No matter; it's better than a German comedy. Order a box for me baignoire or no ... better the Fremden-Loge, she turned to the waiter. 'Do you hear: the Fremden-Loge it must be!
More ladies ladies in groups of two and three and five! ladies of Ripton whose husbands, for some unexplained reason, have stayed at home; and Mr. Tooting, as he watched them with mingled feelings, became a woman's suffragist on the spot. He dived into the private office once more, where he found Mr. Crewe seated with his legs crossed, calmly reading a last winter's playbill.
"Tell me, de Batz," he said, calling the other's attention to a group of men who had just entered the house, "that creature there in the green coat with his hand up to his face now who is he?" "Where? Which do you mean?" "There! He looks this way now, and he has a playbill in his hand. The man with the protruding chin and the convex forehead, a face like a marmoset, and eyes like a jackal. What?"
"In the pretty language of the playbill," the contributor went on, "this piece was called 'A Pastoral Playlet, and I should have been willing to see 'Mandy Hawkins' over again, instead of the 'Seals and Sea Lions, next placarded at the sides of the curtain immediately lifted on them.
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