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It was a fitting episode of the whole affair. The crowd rushing and eddying to and fro the night, the yells, the pale faces, many frighten'd people trying in vain to extricate themselves the attack'd man, not yet freed from the jaws of death, looking like a corpse the silent, resolute, half-dozen policemen, with no weapons but their little clubs, yet stern and steady through all those eddying swarms made a fitting side-scene to the grand tragedy of the murder.
It is for this reason solely that the witchcraft episode assumes historical importance, instead of being a side-scene of ghastly picturesqueness. For the Puritans took it to heart; they never forgot it; it modified their character, and gave a favorable turn to their future.
The wardrobe became a side-scene in our theatre, and Eleanor and Clement laboured day and night with papers of powdered paint, and kettles of hot size, in converting canvas into scenery. "Theatricals" promised to be a lasting fancy; but the next holidays were in fine weather, and we made the drop-curtain into a tent. When the boys were at school, Eleanor and I were fully occupied.
Liston always had a footman in gorgeous livery waiting at the side-scene with a brandy bottle and tumbler, to administer half a pint or so of spirit to him every time he came off, without which assistance he must infallibly have fainted. He knows for a fact, that, after an arduous part, Mr.
But every great actor and orator must be capable of instantaneous abandonment to his part, and of as instantaneous withdrawal from it, like the elder Booth, joking one minute at a side-scene and in the next having the big tears of a realized Lear running down his cheeks.
Liston always had a footman in gorgeous livery waiting at the side-scene with a brandy bottle and tumbler, to administer half a pint or so of spirit to him every time he came off, without which assistance he must infallibly have fainted. He knows for a fact, that, after an arduous part, Mr.
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