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Updated: August 4, 2024
In the Marylebone Road, close to the underground station, stands Madame Tussaud's famous waxwork exhibition, the delight of children and visitors from the country. The waxworks were begun in Paris in 1780, and brought to London in 1802 to the place where the Lyceum Theatre now stands, and afterwards were removed to Hanover Square rooms.
Jarley said of her waxwork, and let the case pass: "I won't go so far as to say that, as it is, I've seen waxwork quite like life but I've certainly seen some life that was exactly like waxwork."
"What is that waxwork? Speak, you fool! What is that? And where's the barrel the water-butt?" "No barrel came, Morris," responded Julia coldly. "This is the only thing that has arrived." "This!" shrieked the miserable man. "I never heard of it!" "It came addressed in your hand," replied Julia; "we had nearly to pull the house down to get it in, that is all that I can tell you."
Free transit is provided on the railway for the happy couple, the wedding-guests, and all the stage-properties. And then they visit themselves in waxwork, and go into ecstacies over the stolid representations of their life and their furniture, and they walk about the town a sort of grown-up school-procession and go home to thrill the wide-eyed village with tales of the wonderful city.
And I wasn't going to mention it if they'd stayed nice, it would have seemed so treacherous; but did you notice, in that wonderful little waxwork house, there was no visible place to wash?" "They don't wash," said I, "except their hands and faces. Most Dutch peasants consider bathing a dirty habit. They say they are clean, and so, of course, they don't need to bathe."
Freely's peculiar regard, and conquered his fastidiousness; and no wonder, for the Ideal, as exhibited in the finest waxwork, was perhaps never so closely approached by the Real as in the person of the pretty Penelope.
By a curious irony an impeccable waxwork had been fixed by the Queen's love in the popular imagination, while the creature whom it represented the real creature, so full of energy and stress and torment, so mysterious and so unhappy, and so fallible and so very human had altogether disappeared.
Afterward, when she looked through the pane of glass in the coffin- lid, and beheld Mary's face, it seemed not so much like death, or life, as like a waxwork, wrought into the perfect image of a child asleep, and dreaming of its mother's smile.
How much more magnificent, impressive, and spectacular, then, was the scene at public functions when the General would lead forth the silver-haired relic of former greatness, like some rare and fragile waxwork figure, and trumpet his pristine eminence to his fellow citizens! General Deffenbaugh was the Voice of Elmville. Some said he was Elmville.
And how on earth could the Mayor know what associations with that stupid doll made her think it profaned by the touch of a stranger? Was it to her eyes as to his, mere waxwork and frippery; or a symbol of holy remembrances, of gleams into a fairer world, of "devotion to something afar from the sphere of her sorrow?"
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