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The Vice-Warden and his wife shook with well-acted merriment. Not in this room, darling!" said the fond mother. "We've been sitting here this hour or more, reading ," here she referred to the book lying on her lap, " reading the the City-Directory." "Let me feel your pulse, my boy!" said the anxious father. "Now put out your tongue. Ah, I thought so!
"Not a brooch, or so much as a worthless garnet." "Nay, I see the belt which contains them among the hairs of the dog." Maso either felt or feigned a well-acted surprise.
When like Mary Magdalene you have loved, and deceived, and betrayed, like her you must repent, and see if God is as trusting as man; if you can deceive Him with your tears as you once deceived us with your well-acted friendship. Go try repentance with God; here it is of no avail. This reformation, madame, must commence at once.
At last, as her trouble grew, she resolved to go away and have a quiet "think," a remedy which had served her in many a lesser perplexity; so, stealing out, she went to a grove of cedars usually deserted at that hour. But in ten minutes Joe Leavenworth appeared at the door of the summer house, and, looking in, said, with a well-acted start of pleasure and surprise,
All objects were thus drawn nearer to the sense; every painted scene was stronger; every grand scene and dance more extended; every rich or fine-coloured habit had a more lively lustre. And how valuable an advantage the facility of hearing distinctly is to every well-acted scene, every common spectator is a judge.
She put the glass with well-acted spirit to her lips; but in the very action a spasm seized her throat and almost choked her; she lowered her head that he might not see her face, and tried again; but the tears burst from her eyes and ran into the liquid, and her lips trembled over the brim, and were paralyzed. "No, no! give it me!" he cried; "there is a tear of yours in it."
The well-acted astonishment of the vagrant, for such he was, silenced Shanty, though it did not convince him that he was mistaken in his conjecture.
Nor was his feeling of repugnance towards her softened, either by this incident, or by her later well-acted but over-theatrical appeal to his pity, his former affection for her, for the possible restoration of his consideration, even though entire forgiveness for the irrevocable past should be impossible. Ivan unfortunately read her too well.
Fathom entered accidentally into the midst of this well-acted scene, and, perceiving the agitation of the maid, and the concern of the mistress, desired, in a respectful manner, to know the cause of their disorder. Before the young lady had time to make him acquainted with the circumstances of the case, his accomplice exclaimed, in an affected passion, "Mr.
"There, now!" interrupted Raoul, with a well-acted assumption of vulgar triumph; "I knew your eccellenza, when you came to look into it, would see the folly of saying that a vessel which was standing from Capri toward Ischia was going on any other course than northwest!" "But this is not the question, amico.
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