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Updated: June 17, 2025
I stand, as it were, before the raree-show: I see the little puppets move, and I ask whether it is not an optical illusion. I am amused with these puppets, or, rather, I am myself one of them: but, when I sometimes grasp my neighbour's hand, I feel that it is not natural; and I withdraw mine with a shudder.
He must bear upon his heart the image of the Prince of Peace, before he can truly value the glorious boon of life." "I wish I could see these things in the same calm unprejudiced light," said I; "but I find it a bitter mortification, after so many years of hard labour, to be without a penny to pay for seeing a raree-show."
He was alone, his friends Tibble and Lucas both had that part of the Lollard temper which loathed the pride and wealth of the great political clergy, and in spite of their admiration for the Dean they could not quite forgive his taking part in the pomp of such a raree-show.
"What impertinence is this?" said he in a tone that, though very calm, made the steward quake in his shoes. "I don't know, really, your honour; there be so many grand folks come to see the house in the fine weather, that " "And you permit your master's house to be a raree-show? You do well, sir."
He spake, and sudden good Lord Whittington, at head of all his raree-show, came forth, armour antique of chivalry, and helmets old, and troops, all streamers, flags and banners glittering gay, red, gold, and purple; and in every hand a square of gingerbread, all gilded nice, was brandished awful.
"But, Gerald, nothing of this must be said these next few days. We can't put ourselves out of condition for this same raree-show." "I'm sure it's a mere abomination to me," said Gerald disconsolately. "I can't think why we should be dragged into all this nuisance for what is not even our own concern." "I'm sure I thought you the rope that dragged me! At any rate much higher up on it."
Barring a great oaken clothes-press in one corner, a raree-show of curious china on the shelves where the books should have been, and the face of an armored soldier staring down at me from its frame over the chimney piece, where I should have looked to see my mother's portrait, the room was a counterpart of my old bedchamber at Appleby Hundred.
They had but to look at him to conclude the contrary the creature was, from his age, fitter for the grave than a conspiracy and by his size and appearance, for the inside of a raree-show, than the mysteries of a plot."
And at last she felt real grief at thus becoming "the raree-show," as she ended by calling herself with a sad, suffering smile. She defended herself as far as she could, refusing to see anyone. Her companions defended her also, and sometimes very sternly, showing her only to such visitors as were authorised by the Bishop.
The boys will care for this raree-show more than thou or I, Tib! We've seen enough of them in our day, though verily they say this is to surpass all that ever were beheld!"
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