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It was remarked in the buzz of query that followed the stage's departure that Ephraim wore the blue suit and the army hat with a cord around it which he kept for occasions. Coniston longed to follow them, in spirit at least, but even Milly Skinner did not know their destination. Fortunately we can follow them.
A lovely stage scene, we say, without a hint of the stage's unreality; for the side and rear fences and walls, being frankly unornamental, call for more careful management than the front and are often charmingly treated.
It was remarked in the buzz of query that followed the stage's departure that Ephraim wore the blue suit and the army hat with a cord around it which he kept for occasions. Coniston longed to follow them, in spirit at least, but even Milly Skinner did not know their destination. Fortunately we can follow them.
For on the stage's boarded scaffold here A world ideal opens to our eyes, Nothing is true and genuine save a tear; Emotion on no dream of sense relies. The real Melpomene is still sincere, Naught as a fable merely she supplies By truth profound to charm us is her care; The false one, truth pretends, but to ensnare.
"Have gone astray astray" Mr. Snow's booming bass came through the stove-pipe hole. The baritone arrived from the stable in time to lend his voice as they all chorded. "The stage's comin'," the musical hostler announced when the strains died away. The entranced audience dashed abruptly for the door.
Years he numbered scarce thirteen When Fates turned cruel, Yet three filled zodiacs had he been The stage's jewel; So, by error, to his fate They all consented; But, viewing him since, alas, too late! They have repented.
"Miz Halstead," called a strident voice, "th' stage's jest in, an' you're paw's took awful sick up on the Middle Fork, at his mine." "I shall have to go on the morning stage. Will you not please " to Rand. "Jo, I do not fear death. It is dishonor that maddens me, for your sake. The snows have come. They are already fitting runners to the stages.
Ah, how their coats shone, as the stable-men pulled their clothes off, and away they went ah, how their tails shook, as with smoking sides at the stage's end they demurely walked away into the inn-yard. Alas! we shall never hear the horn sing at midnight, or see the pike-gates fly open any more. Whither, however, is the light four-inside Trafalgar coach carrying us?
It can't be sure beauty to be up there; I've seen some of 'em. Say now; that's not so bad 'How to be Helen; in Twenty Lessons. Or say, Princess; answer the great question: 'Does Soap Hurt the Skin?" She grinned. Cadge fancies, I suppose, that by any mail I may get a big check from home. "You display almost human intelligence," said Pros, admiringly; "stage's better, though." "But, Mr.
Rosencrantz in the second act of Hamlet bears witness to the popularity of these boy actors, when he calls them "little eyases, that cry on the top of question and are most tyrannically clapped for it." Ben Jonson's touching lyrical epitaph on a boy actor, Salathiel Pavy, who had for "three fill'd zodiacs" been "the stage's jewel," shows how highly the Elizabethans sometimes regarded boy actors.
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