"Then you think, dear, if we stopped worrying about aunt and her money, and worked instead of waiting, that we shouldn't be any poorer and might be a great deal happier than we are now?" asked Polly, making a pretty little tableau as she put her hand through Van's arm and looked up at him with as much love, respect, and reliance as if he had been six feet tall, with the face of an Apollo and the manners of a Chesterfield.

He broke the awkward tableau by saying: "Well, boy, aren't you glad to see me?"

The little princess had pleased herself in getting up all this tableau.

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

Gens, deuxième tableau.

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.

She returned, after changing her dress, to find a pretty fairy tableau, contrived by the Bowater sisters, in full progress, and delighting the children and the mothers.

" 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.

aux habits noirs, au menton rasé, aux mains gantées, aux jambes maladroites, et ce roi de la société n'est plus qu'un accident ridicule, une tâche importune dans le tableau.

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

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

The old dramaturgy would certainly have ended the scene with a bang, so to speaka swoon or a scream, a tableau of desolation, or, at the very least, a piece of tearful rhetoric.

Leaning opposite in the narrow stairway, Casimer had time to study the little tableau in many lights, and in spite of the dark glasses, to convey warm glances of admiration, of which, however, the young coquette seemed utterly unconscious.

The "Seven Sisters" pursued its spectacular course; Ione Burke, Polly Marshall, and Mrs. Vining were in the cast; tableau succeeded tableau; "I wish I were in Dixie," was sung, and the popular burlesque ended in the celebrated scene, "The Birth of the Butterfly in the Bower of Ferns," with the entire company kissing their finger-tips to a vociferous and satiated audience.

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.

He took in the tableau.

As they sang the last line the striped festoons fell and veiled the tableau.

et tu me l'avois promis: pourquoi donc avoir prise,[106] sur ce misérable tableau, avec un sot qui fait un vacarme épouvantable, et qui vient ici tenir des discours tous[107] propres à donner des idées que je serois au désespoir qu'on eût? DUBOIS.

Kent saw the vice-president of the Overland Short Line shake hands with Bucks and take his leave, and was so intent upon watching the tableau of departure that he failed to notice the small boy in Western Union blue who was trying to thrust a telegram, damp from the copying rolls, into his hand.

Into her reveries had gradually come a tableau of the great field.

Florimene, who had retired, perhaps to don her bridal robes, now returns to complete the tableau.

The civilized imagination can hardly conceive such a tableau of savagery as that presented by these Arabs of the great American desert.

Before I close this chapter, it will be as well to describe the tableau I had caught sight of through the open parlor-door when I tempted my fate and failed.