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The note procured me an engagement as errand boy at the stage-door and later I rose to the dignity of scene-shifter. How truly typical of this man's greatness, to help lift a homeless lad out of the gutters of London town! "But I am rambling on as though writing an autobiography, to be read when I am gone " Here the entry ceases and the rest of the pages in the old date-book are blank.
The circle of mountains which bounds the valley is covered with white from top to toe, but two hours of sunshine would melt the snow away. The snow itself is but a new caprice, a simple stage decoration ready to disappear at the signal of the scene-shifter. How sensible I am to the restless change which rules the world.
"I sort 'er thought of joining the ballet onct myself," said Mrs. Snawdor, with a conscious smile. "It was on account of a scene-shifter I was runnin' with along about the time I met your pa." "You!" exclaimed Nance. "Oh! haven't I got a picture of you dancing. Wait 'til I show you!"
The scene-shifter was the Abbé de Pradt, Archbishop of Malines, whom Napoleon sent as ambassador to Warsaw, with elaborate instructions as to the summoning of the Diet, the whipping-up of Polish enthusiasm, the revolutionizing of Russian Poland, and the style of the address to him.
This chief scene-shifter was a serious, sober, steady man, very slow at imagining things. His words were received with interest and amazement; and soon there were other people to say that they too had met a man in dress-clothes with a death's head on his shoulders.
"M'sieu' Doltaire speak to her, and they all put up their swords, and M'sieu' Cournal sit down at a table, and he stare and stare up at the balcony, and make a motion now and then with his hand. M'sieu' Doltaire say to her, 'Madame, you must excuse our entertainment; we did not know we had an audience so distinguished. She reply, 'As scene-shifter and prompter, M'sieu' Doltaire, you have a gift.
The damsel was eyeing the locket somewhat disdainfully and giving me grudging thanks for it when there came a hurried knock at the door. The next moment Theodore poked his ugly face into the room. He, too, had taken the precaution of assuming an excellent disguise peaked cap set aslant over one eye, grimy face, the blouse of a scene-shifter. "Mlle.
He tried acting, but did not succeed; and then became a scene-shifter, or something of the kind, at the Adelphi. He has some complaint, I forget what, which made him an out-patient at St. Mumpsimus's, some months every year. I know that he was there this summer, for I wrote to ask, at Briggs's request, and Briggs sent him a sovereign through me."
It was an impressive sight, rendered double so be the sudden manner in which it was revealed to us by that scene-shifter the Wind. I saw blackbirds at this place, and sparrows, and the solitary sandpiper and the Canada woodpecker, and a large number of hummingbirds. Indeed, I saw more of the latter here than I ever before saw in any one locality. Their squeaking and whirring were almost incessant.
So that, a question and I show point; but ask me for a statement, and, ah, signora! Beppo delivered a sweep of the arm, as to indicate the spontaneous flow of his tongue. 'I think, said Laura, 'you have been a soldier, and a serving-man. 'And a scene-shifter, most noble signora, at La Scala. 'You accompanied the Signor Mertyrio to England when he was wounded? 'I did.
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