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Would you think me stagey and silly if I were to kiss you, just once, on your beautiful trusting eyes?" A telephone bell tinkled downstairs and Herr Knapf stationed himself at the foot of the stairs and roared my name. When I had picked up the receiver: "This is Ernst," said the voice at the other end of the wire. "I have just remembered that I had asked you down-town for supper."
But, in order to clog Murat's movements, the Emperor resolved to make use of the spiritual power, which for six years he had slighted. He gave orders that the aged Pope should be released from his detention at Fontainebleau, and hurried secretly to Rome. But this stagey device was not to succeed.
He told briefly of his own meeting with Coligny Smith at the same spot two hours earlier, and of the editor's stagey warnings. "Exactly the way he did me!" cried Peter.
Oliver Twist was his encore. It was the second opportunity given to him by those who had rolled about with laughter over Tupman and Jingle, Weller and Dowler. Under such circumstances a stagey reciter will sometimes take care to give a pathetic piece after his humorous one; and with all his many moral merits, there was much that was stagey about Dickens.
The minister of St. Rest was really quite objectionable, a ranter, a noisy, 'stagey' creature! and both she and Mrs. Bludlip Courtenay murmured to each other that they 'did not like him. "So loud!" said Lady Beaulyon, breathing the words delicately against her friend's Titian-red hair. "So provincial!" rejoined Mrs.
Some of these are as powerful as anything in modern fiction; and Fagin and Bill Sikes, Smike and Poor Jo, the Gordon riots and the storms at sea, may stand beside some tableaux of Victor Hugo for lurid power and intense realism. But it was only at times and during the first half of his career that Dickens could keep clear of melodrama and somewhat stagey blue fire.
James Clinch, the coolest head at a late supper, he, the American, who had repeatedly drunk Frenchmen and Englishmen under the table could be transformed into a sentimental, stagey idiot by a single glass of wine? He was conscious, too, of asking himself these very questions in a stilted sort of rhetoric, and with a rising brutality of anger that was new to him.
"Pick to pieces, you mean," Jean corrected. "You're going to tell me I'm in bad. But I can't help it; he's putting on some awfully stagey plots, and they cost just as much to produce as " "Listen here. You've got me wrong. That plot of yours could be worked up into a dandy series; the idea of a story running through a lot of pictures is great. What I mean is, it's worth something.
Just once his eyes rolled and flashed savagely in delight at the sensation that they were making, then the face of George was once again impassive. If Donnegan had not carried it off with a certain air, the whole entrance would have seemed decidedly stagey, but The Corner, as it was, found much to wonder at and little to criticize.
Something so stagey you may see it, for instance, in the books for children introducing fairies, which fairies have short skirts, and caper about exactly like a pantomime among stage frogs and stage mushrooms, and it is quite clear that the artist who drew them, and the author who wrote of them, actually drew their inspiration from the boards of a theatre.
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