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...tion by Charles Dickens A publication of PSU s Electronic Classics Series American Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens is a publicati... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. American Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens , the Pennsylvan... ...rom its roof. In the gallery opposite to the pulpit were a little choir of male and female singers, a violoncello, and a violin. The preacher already ... ...ich a half grown Duke of Clarence might be smothered easily. There are two theatres in Boston, of good size and construction, but sadly in want of pat... ...hat all the great sights are somewhere else. If a lady take a fancy to any male passenger’s seat, the gentleman who accompanies her gives him notice o... ...tes – Dickens 94 hotel with stores about its base, like some Continental theatre, or the London Opera House shorn of its colon nade, plunge into th... ...el discussions upon the same themes, in connection with Shakspeare and the Musical Glasses, of which we read in the Vicar of Wakefield. Near the city,... ...ding? On every side. Every session had its anecdotes of that kind, and the actors were all there. Did I recognise in this assembly, a body of men, who... ...f the mixing of cool liquors: but they were a merrier people here, and had musical instruments playing to them o’ nights, which it was a treat to hear...

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...Excerpt: Volume I. Preface: Nothing is more easy than to state the subject of ?The Ambassadors,? which first appeared in twelve numbers of The North American Review (1903) and was published as a whole the same year. The situation involved is gathered up betimes, that is in the second chapter of Book Fifth, for the reader?s benefit, into as few words as possible-- planted ...

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... of “The Ambassadors,” which first appeared in twelve numbers of The North American Review (1903) and was published as a whole the same year. The situ... ...“arranged for”; its first appearance was from month to month, in the North American Review during 1903, and I had been open from far back to any pleas... ...hort stay in London; an evening spent by Miss Gostrey’s side at one of the theatres, to which he had found himself transported, without his own hand r... ...d raised, on the mere expression of a conscientious won- der. She knew her theatre, she knew her play, as she had triumphantly known, three days runni... ...sh life. He had distracted drops in which he couldn’t have said if it were actors or auditors who were most true, and the upshot of which, each time, ... ...hat matter, it had begun to seem to him that there must only have been the male and the female. These made two exactly, even with the individual varie... ...ut of it, with his “home,” as Strether figured the place, in the Boulevard Malesherbes; which was perhaps why, re- pairing, not to fail of justice eit... ...em. It might have been, on analysis, nothing more than Shakespeare and the musical glasses; but it had served all the purpose of his appearing to have...

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...Contents EXTRACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY MR. DE QUINCEY TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF THIS WORKS. ...................................................................................................... 4 PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION .............................................................

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...iversity. Contents EXTRACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY MR. DE QUINCEY TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF THIS WORKS. ............................................... ...secondly, in having made me a participator in the pecuniary profits of the American edition, without solicita- tion or the shadow of any expectation o... ... single case of the class is sufficient to throw open before you the whole theatre of possibilities in that direction. I never heard that the woman ac... ...an away,—a slight jar was thus given to the else triumphal effect of these musical ovations. Once having ut- tered my protest, however, willingly I ga... ...f a real uncounterfeit sympathy. I have mentioned already that we had four male guard- ians, (a fifth being my mother.) These four were B., E., G., an... ...was a family of amiable children, who were more skilfully trained in their musical studies than at that day was usual. They sang the old English glees... ...better sung; but at that time I needed nothing better. It was sung by four male voices, and rose into a region of thrilling pas- sion, such as my hear... ... the composition of a casual and chance auditory, whether in a street or a theatre,—secondly, the small size of a modern audience, even in Drury Lane,... ...e knights were to be attended by adults; and thus, from being partakers as actors, 196 Thomas de Quincey my friend and I became simple spectators of ...

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...h other again, in London, some three months previously, at a dinner at the American Embassy, and when she had caught sight of him her smile had been l... .... Her husband had struck him as a characteristic speci- men of the kind of American as to whom one is not quite clear whether he lives in Europe in or... ...cy) a deeper feeling of communion, and their days there had been like some musical prelude, where the instruments, breathing low, seem to hold back th... ...devotion, set apart for some inevitable hour; and the last evening, at the theatre, between the overshadowing Marquise and the unsuspicious Owen, they... ... was false from head to foot!” “False—?” In spite of time and satiety, the male instinct of ownership rose up and repudiated the charge. Miss Viner ca... ...ersons with tastes and perceptions like his own, to whom an evening at the theatre was an unat- tainable indulgence. There floated through his mind an... ...almost certainly” an anarchist. It was this nucleus, and its outer ring of musical, architectural and other American students, which posed successivel... ...to the veins of the moribund art. He had the impression that the ghosts of actors were giv- ing a spectral performance on the shores of Styx. Certainl... ...ace, at the same moment, underwent the same change, shrinking into a small malevolent white mask in which the eyes burned black. “Thank you—thank you ...

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...e shoe makers. The whole place looks as if it were the stage of some great theatre, and the curtain had just run up, for a picturesque ballet. And the... ...ONS of such a place as Albaro, the suburb of Genoa, where I am now, as my American friends would say, ‘located,’ can hardly fail, I should imagine, t... ... from the heat of the fire, and where the brave Courier plays all sorts of musical instruments of his own manufacture, all the evening long. A mighty ... ...t of Faith, are very commonly seen walking in the streets. There are three theatres in the city, besides an old one now rarely opened. The most import... ...ait for an opportu nity to hiss, and spare the actresses as little as the actors. But, as there is nothing else of a public nature at which they are ... ...y by the Jura mountains, sprinkled with snow, and lighted by the moon, and musical with falling water, was delightful; or how, below the windows of th... ...sed to view a little wooden doll, in face very like General Tom Thumb, the American Dwarf: gorgeously dressed in satin and gold lace, and actually bla... ...tared at again, without let or hindrance. The body of the room was full of male strangers; the crowd immense; the heat very great; and the pressure so... ...s to remind them that he took the money. The majority were country people, male and female. There were four or five Jesuit priests, however, and some ...

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...ge line of sea-board (stretching through twenty-four hundred miles) of the American United States; may enjoy fifty years for lei- surely repentance; a... ...ose. But what the world knows Wieland by is his ‘Oberon.’ Now in this gay, musical romance of Sir Huon and his enchanted horn, with its gleams of volu... ...are quoted or alluded to by Addison. Even these quotations he had from the theatre, or the breath of popular talk. Generally, if you see a line from S... ...e sections) to cite before the reader’s eye the chief pomps of the Grecian theatre, after invoking ‘the magnificent witch’ Medea, I call up Antigone t... ... of dramatically representing an impassioned tale, by means of dancing, of musical ac- companiment in the orchestra, and of elaborate pantomime in the... ... that, as the chorus sometimes intermingles too much in the action, so the actors sometimes intermingle in the business of the chorus. Now, when you a... ...e maternal ancestors of the present Wellesleys. Garret Wellesley, the last male heir of the direct line, in the year 1745, left his whole estate to on... ... well known upon that coast; and ‘faults’ may be a flash term for what the Americans call ‘notions.’ A part of the cargo it clearly is; and one is not... ... by persons who were not merely contemporary with the great civil war, but actors and even leaders in its principal scenes—there is hardly one which d...

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...ience I had found from nervous depression to be absolutely insurmountable; secondly, in having made me a participator in the pecuniary profits of the American edition, without solicitation or the shadow of any expectation on my part, without any legal claim that I could plead, or equitable warrant in established usage, solely and merely upon your own spontaneous motion. So...

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................................................... 4 FROM THE AUTHOR, TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF HIS WORKS. ................................................ ...condly, in hav- ing made me a participator in the pecuniary profits of the American edition, without solicitation or the shadow of any expectation on ... ...of the mail, was transformed into a dream, as tumultuous and changing as a musical fugue. This troubled Dream is circumstantially reported in Section ... ...ment) with respect to the fictitious character of the incidents and of the actors in that famous tale. Mere accident it was that had intercepted those... ...ong by a babble of impossible forms, as fantastic as any that our Lon- don theatres have traditionally ascribed to English rustics, to English sailors... ...pital disadvantage, in my eyes, that its chapel possessed no organ, and no musical ser- vice. But any other choice would have driven me to an in- stan... ...e to modifi- cation from personal qualities, inasmuch as there is no great theatre (as with us) for individual display. Forensic eloquence is unknown ... ...r with the numerous chapels erected in it to different saints by devotees, male or female, in the families of forgotten Landgraves through four centur... ...h a marriage went to incapacitate the children who might be born under it, male or female, from succeeding. On that account, as well as because curren...

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..., looking at the fashions, or reading 4 Men’s Wives Cumberland’s “British Theatre.” The Sunday Times was her paper, for she voted the Dispatch, that ... ...ry one of the roulades, flourishes, and ornaments as she heard them at the theatres by Mrs. Humby, Mrs. Waylett, or Madame V estris. The girl had a fi... ...nfluence of great men; he was an agent for half-a-dozen theatrical people, male 13 Thackeray and female, and had the interests of the latter especial... ... world, from Bond Street to Bread Street; he knew all the authors, all the actors, all the “notorieties” of the town, and the private histo- ries of e... ...to me, considering these things, it seemed that there were a hundred other male brutes squatted round about, and treated just as reasonably as Bottom ... ... it, depend upon it: it is a sad life, a poor pastime. Mr. Dickens, in his American book, tells of the prisoners at the silent prison, how they had or... ...d a prodi- gious quantity of her time and energy on the cultivation of her musical talent; and having, as before stated, a very fine loud voice, speed... ... genius in his profession. This gentleman, then, undertook to complete the musical edu- cation of Mrs. Walker. He expressed himself at once 52 Men’s ...

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...wing and reading, and the blind were, for the most part, set to perform on musical instruments, and got up a con- cert for the visitors. It was then w... ...ible, that even as blind beggars they could hardly get a livelihood in the musical way. 15 Thackeray HENCE WE WERE DRIVEN to the huge palace of Neces... ...have never witnessed before. And the effect of the groups of multitudinous actors in this busy cheerful drama is heightened, as it were, by the decora... ... despise such a homely ornament. I have got a map with squares, fountains, theatres, public gar- dens, and Places d’Othon marked out; but they only ex... ...ty which will only bear to be looked at from a distance, like a scene in a theatre. What is the most beautiful nose in the world, if it be covered wit... ...e moored everywhere, showing their flags, Rus- sian and English, Austrian, American, and Greek; and along the quays country ships from the Black Sea o... ...as en- deavouring to get the likeness of one or two of these comfort- able malefactors. One old and wrinkled she-criminal, whom I had selected on acco... ...issaries, with silver maces shining in the sun. ’Twas the party of the new American Consul-General of Syria and Jerusalem, hastening to that city, wit... ...th. Hard by was Rebecca’s Well: a dead body was lying there, and crowds of male and female mourners dancing and howling round it. Now and then a littl...

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...cks was very red, the mangle with its put-up board was white-scrubbed, the American oil-cloth on the table had a gay pattern, there was a warm fire, t... ...ritish Government,” and “bad for the people—good for the people,” made him malevolently angry. The doctor was nonplussed for a moment. Then he gath- ... ...o quiet, they had the dangerous impassivity of the Bohemian, Pari- sian or American rather than English. “Cigarette, Julia?” said Robert to his wife. ... ...s something like the keyboard of a piano: more still, like a succession of musical notes. For the rectangular planes of light were of different intens... ...high- pitched, sing-song voice and her hurried laugh could be heard in the theatre. She twisted a beautiful little fan that a dead artist had given he... ...king. The noise was strange and rattling. What a curious multiple object a theatre-audience was! It seemed to have a million heads, a million hands, a... ... can’t stand it that Robert offers to hand her into the taxi.” He gave his malevolent grin round the company, then went out. He did not reappear for t... ...HE OPERA SEASON ENDED, Aaron was invited by Cyril Scott to join a group of musical people in a village by the sea. He accepted, and spent a pleasant m... ...arily and cleared his throat. All four started to compose themselves, like actors going on the stage, outside that library door. And then Arthur softl...

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...ered by a most intelli- gent master. I remarked in it, an instance of the collateral harm that obstinate vanity and folly can do. ‘This was the Hall w... ...th masons, sir, and I make him the sign continually; but, because I am in this unfortunate position, sir, he won’t give me the counter-sign!’ CHAPTER ... ...nt re- duced condition it bears a thaw almost worse than any place I know. It gets so dreadfully low-spirited when damp breaks forth. Those wonderful ... ...dems and robes of kings are made. I noticed that some shops which had once been in the dramatic line, and had struggled out of it, were not getting on... ...hed as rear- guard. Sharp-eye, I soon had occasion to remark, had a skil- ful and quite professional way of opening doors—touched latches delicately, ... ... waiting for Jack. Now, it was a crouch- ing old woman, like the picture of the Norwood Gipsy in the old sixpenny dream-books; now, it was a crimp of ... ...g come but the jug of ale and the bread, you implore your waiter to ‘see after that cutlet, waiter; pray do!’ He cannot go at once, for he is carrying... ...e hostelry which no man possessed of a penny was ever known to pass in warm weather. Before its entrance, are certain pleasant, trimmed limes; likewis... ...as already in the un- commercial line. This was a man who, though not more than thirty, had seen the world in divers irreconcilable capacities—had bee...

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...there dwelt an old, melancholy, grizzled man of the name of Tari (Charlie) Coffin. He was a native of Oahu, in the Sandwich Islands; and had gone to s... ...id, is uppermost in the mind of the Marquesan. It would be strange if it were oth- erwise. The race is perhaps the handsomest extant. Six feet is abou... ...ey of Hapaa, known to readers of Herman Melville under the grotesque misspell- ing of Hapar. There are but two writers who have touched the South Seas... ...tted. They must not sit on the paepae; they must not go up to it by the stair; they must not eat pork; they must not approach a boat; they must not co... ...both of these feasters and their meat; he clapped his hands, and gave me a stave of one of the old, ill-omened choruses. Centuries might have come and... ... above upon a woody valley: a little French fort, now disused and deserted, over- hangs the valley and the inlet. Atuona itself, at the head of the ne... ...icety of his inflections, the elegance of his gestures, and the fine play of his ex- pression, told us that. We, meanwhile, sat like aliens in a playh... ...ucted, or seem- ing so by contrast. There was much variety of measure, and towards the end of each piece, when the fun became fast and furious, a reco... ... fled; and when at length the leader found the wit or the author- ity to get his troop in motion and revive the singing, it was with much diminished f...

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... university. 3 Henry James A Little Tour In France by Henry James WE GOOD AMERICANS—I say it without presumption—are too apt to think that France is ... ... of civiliza- tion which stretches from the Arc de Triomphe to the Gymnase theatre. It had already been intimated to the author of these light pages t... ...ved with gold figures; and each of them looks more like the royal box at a theatre than like the aperture of a palace dark with memories. For all this... ... of old furniture, as all apartments should be through which the insatiate American wanders in the rear of a bored domestic, pausing to stare at a fad... ...e to me in the compartment were a couple of figures almost as vivid as the actors in the “Comedie Humaine.” One of these was a very genial and dirty o... ... several weeks in the French provinces I rarely encountered a well-dressed male. Can it be possible the republics are unfavorable to a certain attenti... ...ountered enough specimens to justify an induction. But there were very few males in the streets, and the place presented no appearance of activity. He... ... place is a proof of extraordinary power of voice on the part of the Roman actors. It was after we had spent half an hour in the moonshine at the aren... ...ectory) dur- ing which the treasure could not be shown. The purpose of the musical chimes to which I had so artlessly listened was to usher in this fr...

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...clipse, we entered at least the skirts of its penumbra. And the analogy of theatres was valid against us,—where no man can complain of the annoyances ... ...e boxes. But the soundness of this analogy we disputed. In the case of the theatre, it cannot be pretended that the inferior situations have any separ... ...d* miles— *“Three hundred”:—Of necessity, this scale of measurement, to an American, if he happens to be a thoughtless man, must sound ludicrous. Acco... ...less man, must sound ludicrous. Accordingly, I remember a case in which an American writer indulges himself in the luxury of a little fibbing, by ascr... ...revailed of giving a boy his mother’s name— preceded and strengthened by a male name, as Charles Anne, Victor Victoire. In cases where a mother’s memo... ...ting the early MSS. for 88 The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc English males in another. None of us men could have writ- ten the Opera Omnia of Mr... ...n consequent difficulties in arranging for a punc- tual succession of good actors at his theatre, to turn his at- tention to the improvement of the wh... ...of the mail, was transformed into a dream, as tumultuous and changing as a musical fugue. This troubled dream is circumstantially reported in Section ...

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...downward grimace, the necessitated wrinkles of which could be stretched by malevolence to a semblance of haughty dis- gust; reminding us, through our ... ... ‘There you’re wrong; nor wouldn’t be.’ ‘What’s that?’ was the gentleman’s musical inquiry. ‘That’s flat, as you was half a minute ago,’ the man re- j... ...as to meet the friends with whom her feelings were at home, among whom her musical gifts gave her station: they liked her for herself; they helped her... ... a short utterance between the nuptial two, of whom the unshamed exuberant male has found the sweet reverse in his mate, a 97 George Meredith haven o... ... He thanked heaven to his wife often, that he had nothing to do with North American or South American mines and pastures or with South Africa and, gol... ...and in- structed Germans not deviously march; whom acute and ad- venturous Americans, with half a cock of the eye in passing, compassionately outstrip... ...es. Visibly, that man Jarniman was disposed of with ease. As in the street-theatres of crowing Punch, distance enlisted pan- tomime to do the effectiv... ...lay- fulness of a cane. It bears resemblance to those accomplished natural actors, who conversationally present a dramatic situ- ation in two or three... ...ext day at eight of the evening I shall be address- ing our meeting in the Theatre. Simeon speaks. Beaves Urmsing insists on coming, T ory though he i...

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...ad of his brother of the steerage is one altogether of sentiment. In the steerage there are males and females; in the second cabin ladies and gentleme... ...second cabin ladies and gentlemen. For some time after I came aboard I thought I was only a male; but in the course of a voyage of discovery between d... ... who deserve a special word of condemnation. One of them was Scots; the other claimed to be American; admitted, after some fencing, that he was born i... ...ne, for instance, the composition of which he had bought years ago for five dollars from an American pedlar, and sold the other day for a hundred poun... ...fficult to keep ones footing on the deck. I have spoken of our con- certs. We were indeed a musical ship’s company, and cheered our way into exile wit... ...rnments, and accidental attributes of life, such as pudding to eat and pleas- ant books and theatres to occupy his leisure. The bare terms of existenc... ...ca- tion of a single terrifying story already half a century old, and half forgotten in the theatre of the events. So I was tempted to make light of t... ...eet where I was then living, their song, which was not much louder than a bee’s, but airily musical, kept me in a perpetual good humour. I put the cag... ...ill re- mains half German; and hence we have a band which is able to play, and a company of actors able, as you will be told, to act. This last you wi...

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... the mel ancholy assembly were seated on the deck, which was strewed with musical instruments, and the wreck of furniture and other articles. ‘Here a... ...in the last extremity of distress. He had had a play accepted at a certain Theatre—which was really open; its representation was de layed by the indi... ... is usually a drawn game. After that, the performer instantly departs with male dictory expressions, and is never heard of more. But the most wonderf... ...tal posses sions. 44 Reprinted Pieces Then, we have a commodious and gay Theatre—or had, for it is burned down now—where the opera was always preced... ...ose that between the T orrid Zone and the North Pole there are to be found male dancers with such astonishingly loose legs, fur nished with so many j... ... ashington Irv ing and Benjamin Franklin may have put it in my head by an American association of ideas; but there I was, and the Horse shoe Fall was... ...ich I thought it just as well to appear to be) he told me the names of the actors on the stage, and we got into conversation. When the play was over, ... ... sa! A sharp, smil ing youth, the wit of the kitchen, interposes. He an’t musical to night, sir. I’ve been giving him a moral lecture; I’ve been a ta... ...gateway in their uniforms, as if they had locked up all the balance (as my American friends would say) of the inhabitants, and could now rest a little...

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...ndid room, the picture gallery of Gaunt House, was arranged as the charade theatre. It had been so used when George III was king; and a picture of the... ...amels are coming.” An enormous Egyptian head figures in the scene. It is a musical one—and, to the surprise of the oriental travellers, sings a comic ... ...al, and was waiting for her husband in the adjoining dining-room, with fe- male instinct, auguring evil. The door of the dining-room hap- pened to be ... ...n the pit. In the company of this gentleman they visited all the principal theatres of the metropolis; knew the names of all the actors from Drury Lan... ...ed all the principal theatres of the metropolis; knew the names of all the actors from Drury Lane to Sadler’s Wells; and performed, indeed, many of th... ...daughters even, may remember how uncommonly agreeable gentlemen are to the male relations when they are courting the females; and per- 83 Thackeray h... ...ed for the first time to the won- ders of Mozart and Cimarosa. The Major’s musical taste has been before alluded to, and his performances on the flute... ...to read an authentic de- scription of vice than a truly refined English or American fe- male will permit the word breeches to be pronounced in her cha...

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...gh to endure the search for a B.V.D. undershirt which had, he pointed out, malevolently been concealed among his clean pajamas. He was fairly amiable ... ...lin Avenue & 3d St., N.E Zenith Omar Gribble, Esq., 376 North American Building, Zenith. Dear Mr. Gribble: Your letter of the twentieth t... ... given to oratory and to chumminess with the arts. He called on the famous actors and vaudeville artists when they came to town, gave them cigars, add... ...at the Climax Vaudeville Theater this week cer- tainly are a slick pair of actors.” Babbitt, though ordi- narily his voice was the surest and most epi... ...ompson, the old-fashioned, lean Yankee, rugged, traditional, stage type of American business man, and Babbitt, the plump, smooth, efficient, up-to-the... ...ed into a raging hostess, she took care of the house and didn’t bother the males by thinking. She went on firmly: “It sounds awful to me, the way they... ...an advertisement which he read aloud, to applause and laughter: Old Colony Theatre Shake the Old Dogs to the Wrollicking Wrens The bonniest bevy of be... ...were bringing folding chairs up from the basement. There was an impressive musical program, conducted by Sheldon Smeeth, educational di- rector of the... ...ck around with me, old man, and I’ll show you a good time!” They went to a musical comedy and nudged each other 212 Babbitt at the matrimonial jokes ...

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... lifted and extended to view, in all his beautiful, dead youth. The young, male body droops forward on the cross, like a dead flower. It looks as if i... ...which was not herself, ultimately. 21 Twilight in Italy Even the man, the male, was part of herself. He was the mobile, separate part, but he was non... ...la?’ He shows me the paper. It is an old scrap of print, the picture of an American patent door-spring, with directions: ‘Fasten the spring either end... ...ten the spring either end up. Wind it up. Never unwind.’ It is laconic and American. The signore watches me anx- iously, waiting, holding his chin. He... ...ment in front. When at night the moon shines full on this pale façade, the theatre is far outdone in staginess. The hall is spacious and beautiful, wi... ...less society. 48 D. H. Lawrence 3 THE THE THE THE THE THEA THEA THEA THEA THEATRE TRE TRE TRE TRE DURING CARNIVAL a company is playing in the theatre... ...er, the ter- rible subjugation to sex, the phallic worship. The company of actors in the little theatre was from a small town away on the plain, beyon... ...dren, sat absorbed in watching as the Norwegian drama unfolded itself. The actors are peasants. The leader is the son of a peasant proprietor. He is q... ...is loose throat and powerful limbs, his open, blue ex- tinct eyes, and his musical, slightly husky voice, that seemed to sound out of the past. 82 D....