What the
audience neglected to see was the deep chest.
Right here, perhaps, I ought to add that I make it a rule never to go before an
audience, on any occasion, without asking the blessing of God upon what I want to say.
She was an interested party in what seemed a death-struggle--was not one of the fighters her Joe?--but the
audience understood and she did not.
The one member of the
audience who looked at her and listened to her coldly, was her elder sister.
"I beg pardon--Ladies, Gentlemen, and Children--I must apologize, I had inadvertently omitted a considerable section of this
audience" (tumult, during which the Professor stood with one hand raised and his enormous head nodding sympathetically, as if he were bestowing a pontifical blessing upon the crowd), "I have been selected to move a vote of thanks to Mr.
This force operated mainly not through writers for popular
audiences, like the authors of most Moralities and Interludes, but through men of the schools and the universities, writing for performances in their own circles or in that of the Court.
A few moments later Kulan Tith indicated that the
audience was at an end, and at Thuvan Dihn's invitation I accompanied the Jeddak of Ptarth to his own apartments, where we sat until daylight, while he listened to the account of my experiences upon his planet and to all that had befallen his daughter during the time that we had been together.
She was so pale that Diana and Jane, down in the
audience, clasped each other's hands in nervous sympathy.
And then a man sprang to his feet in the
audience, and raising his hand on high, cried: "Justice!
The two young fellows not having elbow-room in the pit, clambered on to the stage, and fought there, to the greater comfort of the
audience, and with a more excited fury on the part of the combatants.
The lower order of the
audience, eager for amusement, put their own humorous construction on the young lady's action.
And yet, let me add finally, never have I been so appalled and shocked by the world's cruelty as have I been appalled and shocked in the midst of happy, laughing, and applauding
audiences when trained-animal turns were being performed on the stage.