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"This is our camp," said Dorothy, as they reached it. Mrs. Harriwell fairly ran up those barn steps. But who would try to tell what happened when she found her daughter? "It's up to Tavia!" "I have told you every word I am going to tell," she declared. "Oh, no you haven't," objected Nat. "I want to know about that stagey fellow. I don't quite fancy his interference."
Really, Richard, I'm afraid you're getting very old! poor dear! past sixty I know! and you're quite prehistoric in some of your fancies! 'Good- night! er 'and farewell! Sounds so stagey, doesn't it!" She wiped the spasmodic tears of mirth from her eyes, and still shaking with laughter gathered up her rich ermine wrap on one white, jewelled arm. "Womanliness motherliness! good Lord, deliver us!
He looked up and found the sardonic Italian eyes of the old professor fixed on him with a most curious expression.... No, no! Better even Mrs. Paynter's than solitude shared with this stagey old man, with his repellent face and his purring voice which his eyes so belied. "I must be going," said Queed hastily. His host came forward with suave expressions of regret.
This letter was written on the 22nd March, 1802, and Nelson writes that Sir William Hamilton died in his arms and in Lady Hamilton's on the 6th April, 1803, passing on "without a struggle, and that the world had never lost a more upright and accomplished gentleman"; which, be it said, is rather a stagey performance of his wife's lover.
"It would be stagey," she had said, "and clap-trap. There is nothing I hate so much as that." She was sitting, therefore, quite alone, and as stiff as a man in armour, when Lady Milborough was shown up to her. And Lady Milborough herself was not at all comfortable as she commenced the interview.
And yet she was walking in the Villa Nuit d'Or, a name evidently given to his property by the child of the gilded ball, a name that might be in place, surely, on the most stagey stage. She knew that, felt it, smiled at it and yet mentally caressed the name, caressed the thing in Baroudi which had sought and found it appropriate. "What hundreds and hundreds of orange-trees!
The effects are rather stagey, and the smartness somewhat strained that is, if these boyish trifles are compared with Candide and the Lettres Persanes. As pictures of English society, court, and manners in 1827 painted in fantastic apologues, they are most ingenious, and may be read again and again. The Infernal Marriage, in the vein of the Dialogues of the Dead, is the most successful.
"Oh, that's a fine name," observed my interlocutor, sneeringly; "I suppose you're the son of a duke, and a nobleman in disguise?" "No," said I, calmly, put on my mettle by hearing the others sniggering at their leader's wit, as they thought it "my father was an officer." "That's a good one!" said the tall chap, with a stagey laugh; "I think he must have belonged to the Horse Marines didn't he?"
Ned was in a whirl of mental excitement. Perhaps if he had been less natural himself the girl's passionate declaration of fellowship with all who are wronged and oppressed for so he interpreted it by the light of his own thoughts might have struck him as a little bit stagey. Being natural, he took it for what it was, an outburst of genuine feeling.
The play was "Olivia," W.G. Wills' poor and stagey version of "The Vicar of Wakefield," in which, however, not even the lean intelligence of a modern playwright could quite banish the homely and gracious and tender charm of Goldsmith. As Dr. Primrose, Irving was almost at his best; that is to say, not at his greatest, but at his most equable level of good acting.
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