Her large eyes flashed a scorching denial at her accusers. Gallic ancestry gave her a vivacity that could easily mount to fury. At this rate the sketch will have to be taken off." It is only of late that you have acted this way. Fifty times they told her: "It is your fault, Clarice- it is you alone who spoilt the scene. Excepting the downcast comedian, all members of the party united in casting upon her with vehemence the blame of some momentous misfortune. The oral warfare of four immoderate tongues was directed at Miss Clarice Carroll, the twinkling star of the small aggregation. That was the comedian of "A Gay Coquette." He was a young man with a face even too melancholy for his profession. No one of the Party was silent except when answers were stormed from him by the excited ones. Loudly the six maintained their clamorous debate. The sixth at the table was a person inconsequent in the realm of art, but one at whose bidding many lobsters had perished. Another was the author of the comedietta, "A Gay Coquette," which the quartette of layers had been presenting with fair success at several vaudeville houses in the city. Some among the dispersed audiences must have recognized among the quarrelsome sextet the faces of the players belonging to the Carroll Comedy Company.įour of the six made up the company. It was midnight, and the restaurant was filled with patrons from the theatres of that district. Three times the manager walked past them with a politely warning glance but their argument had waxed too warm to be quelled by a manager's gaze. Half a dozen people supping at a table in one of the upper-Broadway all-night restaurants were making too much noise. Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe.
The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett.The Red Badge of Courage - Stephen Crane.The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne.
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