"Wasn't that a nice little tableau, Letty?" said Josephine, with preternatural coolness.

Grand tableau: Claude Duval penitent.

You've no idea, Leslie, what a lovely tableau you have been making,you and Dakie, with that old woman and the blowzy child!" Leslie blushed.

No one knows the anguish of an author's spirit when he can't ring down the curtain on an effective tableau," said Randal, with a glance at his friends to ask their aid in eliciting an anecdote or reminiscence.

A Notre-Dame de la Garde, Nous eûmes un charmant tableau; Lucca Diavolo par mégarde Prit sa femme à Pier'Angelo; Sur ce, l'ange se mit en garde, Et jeta le diable dans l'eau.

I am far from pleading for the conventional tableau at the end of each act, with all the characters petrified, as it were, in penny-plain-twopence-coloured attitudes.

This curious tableau is a striking example of the Elizabethan 'Dumb Show' lingering on to Restoration days.

In that moment's dramatic tableau Aldous glanced about swiftly.

Let us lift the curtain now, on the last, an extraordinary, tableau.

So she answered by pleading the eleven miles' walk; and the queen of the sports was merciful, adding, "But I must be gone, or Terry will be getting up his favourite tableau of the wounded men of Clontarf, or Rothesay, or the Black Bull's Head, or some equally pleasing little incident.

" M. Rey gives us this flattering tableau as a social picture of Morocco.

The empty safe probably is the first object that suggested to him the grim tableau of robbery and murder, which he arranges in order to ensure his own safety.

Viewing this hideous tableau, appreciating what it meantthat Popinot, forearmed with advice from a trusted quarter, had stationed himself outside the door to Monk's stateroom, to waylay and garotte the man whom he expected to emerge therefrom laden with the plunder of Monk's safeLanyard appreciated further that he had done Mr. Mussey a great wrong.

As if that candle-lit tableau, somehow holy and somehow abominable, were not for the eyes of one of them, the face of Daniel, the wedded husband, had been turned to the wall.

Mrs. Thoresby rubbed herself out, and so performed her involuntary tableau.

A resident here gave me a meagre tableau, something like this, The city of Morocco 50,000 souls.

Well, while in this clairvoyant condition, which seemed but the lighting up of the theatre in which was to be exhibited the monotonous tableau of horror, which made my nights insupportable, my attention invariably became, I know not why, fixed upon the windows opposite the foot of my bed; and, uniformly with the same effect, a sense of dreadful anticipation always took slow but sure possession of me.

" I went, and never shall forget the pathetic little tableau I saw as I opened Mrs. Flanagin's dingy door; for she was out, and no one heard my tap.

With a sudden energy he clasped her in his arms; and it was a very pretty tableau they made!

When repeating the story, he always dwelt upon the ridiculous tableau presented by the horrified looks of the old lady, as she pointed to the suspicious-looking articleand the delight and surprise of Venus at recovering her lost property in such an unexpected manner.

It was he who broke the tense and lifeless tableau.

It was a touching tableau, and the spectators applauded it In a way that tickled the heart of the author, who was watching the effect through an eyehole of the left wing.

She had been debating with herself whether or not to confide to her mother the story of the tragic tableau of which she had been an accidental witness, when Mrs. Strong had dashed into her bedroom to give her a hurried peck on the cheek and to say that she was off to luncheon and the matinée with Mrs. Starrett.

But, oddly enough, into the middle of this admirable opening tableau, Shakespeare inserts a formal exposition, introduced in the most conventional way.

Mrs. BACKUP immediately organized a virtuous tableau, and glared at him majestically.