The Seamy Side: A Story of the True Condition of Things TheatricalPercy Ives Publishing Company, 1906 - 312 páginas |
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... weeks , our work shop ; and the smell of the paint on the canvas that was every where about us , against the walls and even hanging row on row above our heads , the half chill of the cold dark air , only intensified that indescribable ...
... weeks , our work shop ; and the smell of the paint on the canvas that was every where about us , against the walls and even hanging row on row above our heads , the half chill of the cold dark air , only intensified that indescribable ...
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... week stand ; " that is , if the city allowed us to play out the time allotted to us , " a most sarcastic suggestion ; and we were dismissed . Wilted and crestfallen , we shrank away to our respective dressing rooms ashamed to look one ...
... week stand ; " that is , if the city allowed us to play out the time allotted to us , " a most sarcastic suggestion ; and we were dismissed . Wilted and crestfallen , we shrank away to our respective dressing rooms ashamed to look one ...
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... week on her salary , so that the management would put it on his , and , of course , Fudge wanted to give her a dig about skimping on her gowns . " I opened my eyes and sat up quickly . To my seventeen - year - old ears those words ...
... week on her salary , so that the management would put it on his , and , of course , Fudge wanted to give her a dig about skimping on her gowns . " I opened my eyes and sat up quickly . To my seventeen - year - old ears those words ...
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... weeks are over his head . Look out for him . " Pairer off ! " It was a new phrase to me , and the words stuck in my throat when I wished to ask what they meant , and Miss Gaily went on : " Besides , Billie has lots of influence with the ...
... weeks are over his head . Look out for him . " Pairer off ! " It was a new phrase to me , and the words stuck in my throat when I wished to ask what they meant , and Miss Gaily went on : " Besides , Billie has lots of influence with the ...
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... suggestion . My heart was heavy to discover , after we had been out several weeks , that these two objects of my romantic dreams had violent quarrels . One evening Miss Melloweye was taken from the stage in hysterics , 58 THE SEAMY SIDE .
... suggestion . My heart was heavy to discover , after we had been out several weeks , that these two objects of my romantic dreams had violent quarrels . One evening Miss Melloweye was taken from the stage in hysterics , 58 THE SEAMY SIDE .
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The Seamy Side: A Story of the True Condition of Things Theatrical (Classic ... H. A. Dennison Sin vista previa disponible - 2015 |
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Página 100 - But midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see, to feel, and to possess, And roam along, the world's tired denizen, With none who bless us, none whom we can bless; Minions of splendour shrinking from distress!
Página 245 - It is silly of you, for there is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
Página 100 - And roam along, the world's tired denizen, With none who bless us, none whom we can bless Minions of splendour shrinking from distress ! None that, with kindred consciousness endued, If we were not, would seem to smile the less Of all that flatter'd, follow'd, sought, and sued ; This is to be alone ; this, this is solitude ! XXVII.
Página 32 - ... father ; and for Henderson, — well, pleasantly, as her friend. The fine, lasting romance of their relationship was heightened almost unendurably for Shore by this threefold apprehension of it. He got up yearningly, went over to her, touched her shoulders once with his hands lightly, then put the hands in his pockets and began to pace up and down in front of her, after a habit of his. His lips shook a little, and his brow tightened and relaxed, tightened, relaxed. Once, a keen pain twitched...
Página 57 - I had a letter from her the other day, in which she wrote, " I have three silver forks which you quite ruined.
Página 74 - He had become so much a part of my daily life that I dared not give him up. "And I am ill," I whimpered, "and need someone to love me.