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  • Our Charades and How We Played Them: With a Few Practical Hints on the Proper Management of This Favourite and Most Interesting Pastime

    Jean Francis

    Paperback (Forgotten Books, July 11, 2017)
    Excerpt from Our Charades and How We Played Them: With a Few Practical Hints on the Proper Management of This Favourite and Most Interesting PastimeOne hint more. If possible, have your Charade so con structed as to bear a little on the Word it is intended to illustrate, never losing sight of the fact that audiences, even of the highest intelligence, are wonderfully slow in guessing what appears so plain to the initiated.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
  • Our charades and how we played them; with a few practical hints on the proper management of this favourite and most interesting pastime

    Jean Francis

    Paperback (RareBooksClub.com, March 6, 2012)
    This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1866 Excerpt: ... say all is over between us for ever. I have, however, one comfort in all this miserable business, and that is, I can have the pleasure of restoring the ring; the one you lost last night, and that you so very highly prize. I found it sighs at Lady Lisle's, in the boudoir, at about one o'clock; it dropped, I think, off Mrs. Diamond's finger, as I picked it up just where she sat. Hands him the ring. Capt. D. Takes the ring; looks very much confused. (Aside.) So that is what it all means. How like a fool I must look, and how confoundedly like a fool I feel! Aloud. Flora, you have, I fear, more, after all, to forgive than I have; but do not for a moment believe my going was premeditated. Some of our fellows went, and persuaded me to accompany them: a brother officer took my duty. Above all, do not think I gave away your ring to any one. Come, let us be friends, my darling, and forget it all. Lady F. Oh, Charley, and I believed in you so entirely! Capt. D. And believe me still, Flo. I would not lose a smile from your lips, or bring a frown to your brow, to please all the women in London. Mrs. D. That is very charming. Now, like good children, kiss and be friends; and for ever forget this ring's little misadventure. Capt. D. I shall always keep this, and replace it in your jewel-box by the prettiest at Emanuel's to-morrow. Lady F. Ah, Charley, you gave me one at St. George's, three months ago, that I would not exchange for all in his establishment. Mrs. D. Very prettily said. Now let us go into the park. Fan-Fan is quite pining for a little fresh air. Curtain falls. Second Syllable, " Let.' Characters. Mb. and Mrs. Poddles. Mart, the Maid-servant. Scene.--A small Parlour in London. Mr. and Mrs. P. seated at a small table. Mrs. P. working, Mr. P. poring over ...