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"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 business of the dramatist is to keep himself out of sight, and to let nothing appear but his characters. As soon as he attracts notice to his personal feelings, the illusion is broken. The effect is as unpleasant as that which is produced on the stage by the voice of a prompter or the entrance of a scene-shifter. Hence it was that the tragedies of Byron were his least successful performances.
Through that irony of fate which almost always exchanges the proper labels of things and persons, Ariston was a supernumerary in one of the vaudeville theatres, through the influence of his father, who was a scene-shifter, and the job disgusted him, for in such a playhouse nobody ever died upon the stage, nobody ever came out in mourning and there was no weeping.
You imagined, of course, that I was a scene-shifter. And now that you know all about me, what of Gavrillac? What of my godfather?" He was well, she told him, and still profoundly indignant with Andre-Louis for his defection, whilst secretly concerned on his behalf. "I shall write to him to-day that I have seen you." "Do so. Tell him that I am well and prospering. But say no more.
The strain was broken; the audience dissolved in laughter; but it was not hilarious; it was the nervous laughter of relief, touched off by a native humour always present in the dweller of the prairie. "I beg your pardon," said Terry quietly and abstractedly to the audience. And the scene-shifter bethought himself and let down the curtain. The fourth act was not played that night.
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.
A few of those present who knew the story of the ghost and the description of him given by the chief scene-shifter they did not know of Joseph Buquet's death thought, in their own minds, that the man at the end of the table might easily have passed for him; and yet, according to the story, the ghost had no nose and the person in question had.
The nutmeg pigeons are also of exact habit, the time for their return generally coinciding with that of the starlings. This year both birds were noticed just after the scene-shifter had swept the hills of mists, and now other birds seem to have awakened to the conditions which the starlings and the nutmegs brought with them from hotter lands.
Then he was up, and struggling past excited people down the row, out into the aisle, along it, hurrying blindly down unknown passages till somehow he got himself into that confused labyrinth behind the scenes. Here a pale, distracted scene-shifter informed him that Miss West had already been taken home.
The scenes are produced without sequence, without apparent rhyme or reason; and Chance, the scene-shifter, is very careless, for comedies are enacted amid scenic effects calculated to show off to perfection the deepest tragedy, while tragedies are spoilt by their surroundings. The doctor and Mrs. Carew stood at the bedside, and listened to the old woman's broken murmurings.
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