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Updated: June 4, 2025
Was it that young Glauber, who acted Romeo in the private theatricals, was far younger and more agreeable than either? Or was it, that seeing a REAL GENTLEMAN, such as Mr. Walker, with whom she had had her first interview, she felt more and more the want of refinement in her other declared admirers?
Romeo was beginning to call the heavens to witness, that nothing was farther from his thoughts than to impute a shadow of dishonour to such an honoured lady, when she stopped him, begging him not to swear; for although she joyed in him, yet she had no joy of that night's contract; it was too rash, too unadvised, too sudden.
The total want of flexibility of limb, the awkwardness of his gait, and the idiotic manner in which he stood still, all produced a most ludicrous effect; but when his guttural voice was heard, and his total misapprehension of every passage in the play, especially the vulgarity of his address to Juliet, were perceived, everyone was satisfied that Shakspeare's Romeo was burlesqued on that occasion.
"Ya-as," said Romeo. "Your character, you know. A fellah 'd think you'd just come from sleeping in a rubbish bin. Yes. Best Weary Willie I've seen. But aren't you coming in, dear boy? You're a cart for Dolly's prize for best-sustained character, eh?" "Presently presently." said Nicholas, smitten with a sudden idea. "Waiting for a friend, you know."
She came towards him and sat down at a table near to his. "What piece was it you saw?" she asked. "It's Benson's Company, isn't it?" "Yes. I saw Romeo and Juliet." "Oh, that's an awful sad piece. I cried my eyes out one year when I saw it!" "It's a great play," John said. "I suppose you often go?" she went on. "Last Saturday was the first time I ever went to a theatre.
That sort of susceptibility is luckily rare. A world of inflammable lovers of the Romeo and Juliet type would very soon end in barbarism and misery. These are great mysteries, of course. Magic signs. I don't know in what the sign consisted in this case. In certain lights, in certain poises of head it suggested tragic sorrow. Or it might have been her wavy hair.
I have an idea that if I did love, I should love as intensely as Romeo, and that thought inspires me with vague forebodings of terror; and if I did find an object to arouse my ambition, I could be as earnest in its pursuit as whom shall I name? Caesar or Cato? I like Cato's ambition the better of the two.
Even in the houses of the middle classes the furniture was rich and comfortable, and there was an air of amenity in the chambers and parlors strewn with sweet herbs and daily decked with pretty nosegays and fragrant flowers. Lights were placed on antique candelabra, or, wanting these at suppers, there were living candleholders. "Give me a torch," says Romeo; "I'll be a candle-holder, and look on."
Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet and Ophelia, Tristan and Iseult, can thus be made to serve as decorations. The walls of the church can, of course, be exquisitely decorated with palms in an Oriental pattern, flowers, and leaves. The season is one when nature's bounty is so profuse that even the fruits can be pressed into service.
'Ay, said the lady, 'lips which they must use in prayer. 'O then, my dear saint, said Romeo, 'hear my prayer, and grant it, lest I despair. In such like allusions and loving conceits they were engaged, when the lady was called away to her mother.
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