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This tableau is to illustrate the line: "Let the hero born of woman crush the serpent with his heel." Now it is the end of the series of visions. It is morning in Mrs. Howe's room. She rises. She is filled with wonder to find the poem on her table. Written to the rousing glory-tune of John Brown's Body the song goes over the North like wildfire. The far-off home of the widow is shown.
And then she went back to that tormenting Monday, and told of Leonard Brooks' call with his friend Mr. Holden, and of the tableau entertainment to which she was pledged.
It won't be necessary for you to mingle with pickpockets and roustabouts and common ring performers. There will be a select little coterie. I fancy you can guess who will comprise our little circle our set, as you might call it. There are better times ahead for you, Jenison. Your days of riding in a tableau wagon are over.
What would one not give to have seen that last tableau: the British soldier in the crowd of natives going for the wounded Sultan's jewelled sword belt, the jam and press, and the heat and danger! The Sultan objected and wounded the soldier, so the soldier put a bullet through the Sultan's head and what became of our northern robber, and the belt?
"This is my friend, Edith Metford. Metford, this is Arthur Marcel." "How do you do, Marcel? I am glad to meet you; I have heard 'favourable mention' of you from the Brandes," the second figure in knickerbockers said pleasantly. "How do you do, sir madam I mean Miss " I blundered, and then in despair I asked Miss Brande, "Is this a tableau vivant? What is the meaning of these disguises?"
A lovely air by the soprano accompanied this tableau, and after the curtain fell a grand chorus completed the fifth part. The play represented Joseph, with all his honors upon him, receiving his old father and his brothers prefiguring the Ascension of Christ. After the prelude by the orchestra the curtain rises and discovers old Jacob, surrounded by his sons in various groups.
Wouldn't she be splendid with a gold crown on her head, and di'monds a glitterin' all over her! D' you remember how handsome she looked in the tableau, when the fair was held for the Dorcas Society? She had on an old dress of her grandma's, they don't make anything half so handsome nowadays, and she was just as pretty as a pictur'. But what's the use of good looks if they scare away folks?
"My God!" he said, "you don't mean they're going to give it to them!" 'Sh! Here is Ronald. Mrs. Freddy's tact brought her smiling to her feet as the figure of her brother-in-law appeared in the doorway. But she turned her back on him and affected absorption in the tableau presented by Jean leaning forward, elbow on knee, chin in hand, gazing steadily in Vida Levering's face.
In transports of delight we glanced at a vast, verdant tract of land adorned with magnificent structures appearing to be of the purest marble; in their matchless beauty imparting to the mind some grand allegorical tableau, intending to convey the poet's idea of the New Jerusalem.
Odd, indeed, was the effect of this tableau on the Indians under the torches. They had come for one lone canoe, to find a horde; for one man and one woman, to fall upon a brigade. They halted and the distance widened between. And then the flotilla parted at a word of command from the darkness ahead and a boat came back among them.
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