Baroness Orczy
Books and Quotes Collection
โThere the cause of death was soon ascertainedโ; the victim of this daring outrage had been stabbed to death from ear to ear with a long, sharp instrument, in shape like an antique stiletto, which [โฆ] was subsequently found under the cushions of the hansom. [โฆ]โ
โScarcely had Alice reached her twentieth birthday, than she gave her erstwhile fiancรฉe his formal congรฉ. [โฆ]โ
Miss Phyllis Morgan, as the hapless heroine dressed in the shabbiest of clothes, appears in the midst of a gay and giddy throng; she apostrophises all and sundry there, including the villain, and has a magnificent scene which always brings down the house, and nightly adds to her histrionic laurels.
For this scene, a large number of supers are engaged, and in order to further swell the crowd, practically all the available stage hands have to โwalk onโ dressed in various coloured dominoes, and all wearing masks.
โTwo or three months more went by; the public were eagerly awaiting the arrival of this semi-exotic claimant to an English peerage, and sensations, surpassing those of the Tichbourne case, were looked forward to with palpitating interest. [โฆ]โ