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It is your amateur who knows no stage-fright. Papa," he went on, using the name that to English ears sounds so strangely on grown-up lips, "says he invariably feels as though the audience were wild beasts going to rush at him and tear him to pieces until he has played one number." "And after the concert?"
I wish you were all at home." "Thank you." The other Norman came out of the sitting-room at the moment, and heard the last words. "Never mind," said he to Ethel, "I'll take care of him. He shall comport himself as if you were all at Nova Zembla. A pretty fellow to talk of despising fame, and then get a fit of stage-fright!" "Well, good-night," said Norman, sighing.
Thank goodness it's drawing this afternoon, and I shall have time to think them over." "We'll all think!" agreed Verity. "Then we'll compare notes at four o'clock, and fix on what we're going to do. Great Minerva! It'll be a hectic evening! I'm shivering in my shoes!" "And I'm absolutely green with stage-fright! What a life!" proclaimed Fil.
The tactical lessons conned in his tent would vanish in a sort of stage-fright when he tried to practise them in public. Some would overcome the difficulty by perseverance, others would give it up in despair and resign, still others would hold on from pride or shame, until some pressure from above or below would force them to retire.
It exhilarated me to reconstruct the whole story, beginning with my early stage-fright and ending with the triumphant climax, when I crashed into the end of the baths. I was indulging the glorious retrospect when there broke upon my reverie a sullen youth who said: "Well, Ray, we haven't won it after all." There was a hitch in my understanding, and I asked: "What d'you mean?"
"A young man," related Vincenz, "whom nature had endowed with a splendid bass voice, and who had gone upon the operatic stage, was making his first appearance as Sarastro, in the 'Magic Flute. As he was mounting the car, in which he first comes on, he was seized with such a terrible attack of stage-fright that he trembled and shook nay, when the car got into motion to come forward, he shrunk into himself, and all the manager's efforts to induce him to reassure himself, and, at all events, stand upright, were useless.
Carter mentally determined to speak to Sobieska at the first opportunity and regretted that his duties to His Majesty for the present prohibited the consultation. A species of stage-fright, seizing upon the King, sent a quiver through his limbs, causing his knees to quake, his hands to tremble. "Who will be here?" he asked in a tone he strove desperately to hold natural and easy.
She had never been in such a position before, and, flushing scarlet, she urged her utter inability to cope with the matter. "I can't! You do it or Muriel!" she whispered in an agonized voice. But Muriel, in spite of her ambition, was also afflicted with stage-fright and passed on the honour.
Kaiserina came down to the flaring footlights, after a little trepidation, which the inexorable demon of stage-fright exacted from her, with the swing and confident step of one sure that while man may be unjust, cruel and oppressive to her sex off the stage here she would reign and finally triumph.
I groaned as he nodded his adieu; and he left me limp with apprehension, sick with fear, in a perfectly pitiable condition of pure stage-fright. For, after all, I had only to act my part; unless Raffles failed where he never did fail, unless Raffles the neat and noiseless was for once clumsy and inept, all I had to do was indeed to "smile and smile and be a villain."
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