Word: prisoning
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Miss Lane was a charming Marguerite. From her first entrance to her lonely prison cell, where her life goes out, she realized fully the sweetness and dramatic strength of the role. No one will soon forget the picture she made at the close of the opera, when the bare prison walls opened and Marguerite is seen amid the clouds, her face picturing the rapture she has lost on earth...
...story, it is remembered, is that of Carmen, the cigarette girl, the prettiest and most coquettish of all in the factory, who throws a bouquet to Jose, a brigadier at Seville. Jose falls in love. A quarrel ensues among the girls. Carmen, declared the assailant, is ordered to prison. She fascinates the luckless brigadier, Jose, until he connives at her escape, and is himself placed under arrest for it. Carmen returns to her wandering gipsy life, and tempts Jose to desert. Carmen's love grows cold. Escamillo, the popular toreador, woos her. Carmen is faithless. She goes with Escamillo...
...story, it is remembered, is that of Carmen, the cigarette girl, the prettiest and most coquettish of all in the factory, who throws a bouquet to Jose, a brigadier at Seville. Jose falls in love. A quarrel ensues among the girls. Carmen, declared the assailant, is ordered to prison. She fascinates the luckless brigadier, Jose, until he connives at her escape, and is himself placed under arrest for it. Carmen returns to her wandering gipsy life, and tempts Jose to desert. Carmen's love grows cold. Escamillo, the popular toreador, woos her. Carmen is faithless. She goes with Escamillo...
...strength of will of the various personages with a deep appreciation and sympathy which greatly enhanced the value of the subject. He called particular attention to the contrast shown in the manner of Pauline towards Polyeuctes at the time of the return of Severus and the meeting in the prison. In the first place her whole soul is occupied by her great love for Severus, there is no room for more than mere affection towards Polyeuctes; she is utterly blind to the greatness of his character. But in the prison scene after Polyeuctes has made his offer of sacrifice, Pauline...
...lectures and recitations? It is nothing less than thieving. The man who thus runs away from the class room, steals time from the class room, steals time from the instructor. Moreover, his exit from the class room is after the manner of the escape of a thief from prison. His motions are hurried, he always waits till the instructor's face is turned away and then he bolts as any thief would do. His face has stamped upon it that expression of conscious guilt, that evasive, sneaking, look, which is perfectly unmistakable. The difference between this thief...