Chap.

 1        1|        not a sound came from the stage, the unlit footlights, the
 2        1|     between lofty pilasters, the stage boxes, bedraped with long–
 3        1|        luster.~“Did you get your stage box for Lucy?” asked Hector.~“
 4        1|      anxious to start her on the stage. Well, just about that time
 5        1|          in sole possession of a stage box on the level of the
 6        1|            He was looking at the stage box on the second tier to
 7        1|     level his opera glass at the stage box. But he turned round
 8        1|      Jupiter on the right of the stage. First of all Iris and Ganymede,
 9        1|      Mignon had just come on the stage as Diana. Now though she
10        1|      song at her entrance on the stage was full of lines quaint
11        1|         People turned toward the stage. Was it Nana at last? This
12        1|        clouds at the back of the stage were cloven apart and Venus
13        1|         to deport herself on the stage: she thrust her arms in
14        1|        heel and was going up the stage, presenting the nape of
15        1|         more decent women on the stage. Yes, I shall end by forbidding
16        1|      recently had been in Lucy’s stage box.~“What IS that man’s
17        1|   incognito. Jupiter came on the stage as King Dagobert, with his
18        1|       degree higher. Lucy in her stage box laughed so obstreperously
19        1|        the Count de Vandeuvres’s stage box and chatting at very
20        1|     corridor, at the door of her stage box. They were getting cooked
21        1|        wanted him to stay in the stage box for the last act, but
22        1|   Stewart’s box and threw on the stage two immense bouquets of
23        1|          canvas slipped from the stage boxes and swathed the gilt
24        1|        mental vow to wait at the stage door, was running with burning
25        3|      extraordinary pieces on the stage nowadays. Besides, music
26        4|         They had both met at the stage door in the Passage des
27        4|          Scots has already had a stage box reserved so as to see
28        4|       make her appearance on the stage but he bought her, however
29        5|      their turn for going on the stage.~Old Bosc, too, had just
30        5|        the passages. “All on the stage for the second act! All
31        5|       the second act! All on the stage for the second act!” The
32        5|        his shrill voice, “On the stage for the second act!”~“The
33        5|    wooden steps which led to the stage. As the big Clarisse went
34        5|        to see. He’s in the first stage box to the right, the same
35        5|          first appearance on the stage.~“How d’ye do?” said Fontan,
36        5|         beside the prince in the stage box? A handsome man, with
37        5|    called out:~“All to go on the stage! It’s your turn, Monsieur
38        5|          the neighborhood of the stage. “I expect he’s gone to
39        5|      that faint murmur which the stage gives forth when the whole
40        5|        nearly fallen flat on the stage because they were playing
41        5|          them into the wings the stage manager passed.~“Just you
42        5|         Then across the twilight stage, which was no longer lit
43        5|     together in whispers. On the stage, in an interval between
44        5|   guttural drunken jests.~On the stage above Bordenave was wild
45        5|        canvas at the back of the stage was raised into position,
46        5|    raised into position, and the stage was clear. Mignon, who had
47        5|        crossbars illuminated the stage with a wide beam of light.
48        5|         against the walls of the stage and proceeded to lash them
49        5|     position. At the back of the stage, with a view to producing
50        5|      sharp downward slope of the stage had surprised him disagreeably,
51        5|       the count was going up the stage a small incident occurred
52        5|           was ready to go on the stage. Mme Jules, with vacant,
53        5|    Monsieur Bordenave!” said the stage manager, coming up in a
54        5|        moment she was due on the stage. Vulcan, indeed, was giving
55        5|          going to bound onto the stage in the middle of the struggle.
56        5|     whispered to her. “Go on the stage; go on, do! It’s no business
57        5|          two of the wings at the stage, he understood from a sign
58        5|      from a sign made him by the stage manager that he was to step
59        5|      voices of the actors on the stage sounded strange, deadened,
60        5|       murmured Bordenave.~On the stage Rose rendered a phrase in
61        5|         sight of a corner of the stage, of the Etna cave hollowed
62        5|        while on the floor of the stage, in the far background,
63        5|     Clarisse was only due on the stage toward the end of the act,
64        5|         it fast, she went on the stage in all her nudity.~“Hush,
65        5|         stood on the edge of the stage, looking as though it had
66        5|         face was very white. The stage had disappeared, and he
67        5|       The prince returned to the stage, where Bordenave was awaiting
68        5|       rid of their paint. On the stage, where the side lights and
69        5|          made her appearance the stage was dark, and the fireman
70        7|       the wreckage peculiar to a stage door, where drunken sceneshifters
71        7|         and down in front of the stage door. Thereupon at each
72        7|          sudden surprises on the stage. Indeed, after the first
73        8|     began talking of leaving the stage; the theater was not to
74        8|         such performances on the stage. It was five pages long,
75        8|        she would never go on the stage again. Labordette doubtless
76        8|       for you, and you go on the stage again, and I bring him to
77        9|        armchairs in front of the stage, Fauchery and Bordenave
78        9|         who was acting as second stage manager.’~Then there arose
79        9| rehearsal.~Only the front of the stage was lit up. A flaring gas
80        9|         on a few square yards of stage, that a faint glow suggested
81        9|       them. The remainder of the stage was full of mist and suggested
82        9|      chatting at the back of the stage while awaiting their cues.
83        9|         twilight radiance of the stage, seemed to slumber in melancholy
84        9|        from the several tiers of stage boxes on either hand huge
85        9|        he came striding over the stage and began himself to act
86        9|         Tardiveau must go up the stage. D’you hear, Fontan? You
87        9|        stopped at the top of the stage and came down again when
88        9|         seats at the back of the stage, where they had been chuckling,
89        9|    darkness and confusion of the stage was the pure, clear light
90        9|     quarreling as he reached the stage. The second act was being
91        9|        paused at the back of the stage, for he hesitated to interrupt
92        9|         who was once more on the stage with Fauchery and Muffat,
93        9|       the news, came down to the stage in triumph. She was quite
94        9|          were too amused. From a stage box Rose Mignon kept greeting
95       10|        who was so awkward on the stage, so very absurd the moment
96       11|      Would you like to go on the stage again? I’ve a notion: I’