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Updated: June 2, 2025
But you are too young to be my father confessor; and you would not thank me for treating you like one of those good little handmaidens who share the bosom secrets of a tragedy-queen." "I would, at least, be loyal and faithful," answered I; "and would counsel you with an honest purpose, if not wisely." "Yes," said Zenobia, "you would be only too wise, too honest.
She had a tower of lace on her head, under which was a bush of black curls borrowed curls so that no wonder little Harry Esmond was scared when he was first presented to her, the kind priest acting as master of the ceremonies at that solemn introduction, and he stared at her with eyes almost as great as her own, as he had stared at the player woman who acted the wicked tragedy-queen, when the players came down to Ealing Fair.
This moral earthquake demolished in a moment my goodly aërial fabric; the fair plot burst like a meteor; and an after-recollection of a certain French tragedy-queen, Agrippina, showed me that the ground was still further preoccupied. But it is high time to tell the destined name of my abortive play; in four letters, then,
It was there that the actor, doffing the jaunty hat which usually crowned his "comely head," and, flinging himself on his knees before his fair mistress, entreated her to rule his wayward heart, share his precarious fortunes, and bear his humble name. But when that scene in her life-drama came on, it was the woman, not the tragedy-queen, that acted.
This moral earthquake demolished in a moment my goodly aërial fabric; the fair plot burst like a meteor; and an after-recollection of a certain French tragedy-queen, Agrippina, showed me that the ground was still further preoccupied. But it is high time to tell the destined name of my abortive play; in four letters, then,
Fan, afraid to cry out, struggled vainly to get free; he held her firmly and closely, and had just put his lips to her face when the door swung open, and Miss Starbrow sailed like a tragedy-queen into the room, her head thrown back, her face white as marble and her eyes gleaming.
'Inconceivable! as they might well say to me, as she walked off with her tragedy-queen air; 'Inconcevable mais, vraiment inconcevable; and 'Bien Anglaise, they would have added, no doubt, if I had not been by." "But there must surely have been some particular reason," said Helen. "None in the world, only the story was not true, I believe.
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