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"It was Gerty who turned off the gas at the main every night and it was Gerty who tacked up on the wall of that place where she never forgot every fortnight the chlorate of lime Mr Tunney the grocer's christmas almanac, the picture of halcyon days where a young gentleman in the costume they used to wear then with a threecornered hat" (U13.331) |
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"was offering a bunch of flowers to his ladylove with oldtime chivalry through her lattice window. You could see there was a story behind it. The colours were done something lovely. She was robed in a soft clinging white in a studied attitude and the gentleman was in chocolate and he looked a thorough aristocrat." (U13.335) |
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"The twins were now playing in the most approved brotherly fashion, till at last Master Jacky who was really as bold as brass, there was no getting behind that, deliberately kicked the ball as hard as ever he could down towards the seaweedy rocks. Needless to say poor Tommy was not slow to voice his dismay but luckily the gentleman in black who was sitting there by himself came gallantly to the rescue and intercepted the ball." (U13.344) |
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"Gerty smiled assent and bit her lip. A delicate pink crept into her pretty cheek but she was determined to let them see so she just lifted her skirt a little but just enough and took good aim and gave the ball a jolly good kick and it went ever so far and the two twins after it down towards the shingle." (U13.360) |
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"Through the open window of the church the fragrant incense was wafted" (U13.371) |
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"The twins were now playing again right merrily for the troubles of childhood are but as fleeting summer showers." (U13.381) |
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"And two great big lovely big tears coursing down his cheeks. It was all no use soothering him with no, nono, baby, no and telling him all about the geegee and where was the puffpuff but Ciss, always readywitted, gave him in his mouth the teat of the suckingbottle" (U13.399) |
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"and the young heathen was quickly appeased. Gerty wished to goodness they would take their squalling baby home out of that and not get on her nerves no hour to be out and the little brats of twins." (U13.402) |
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"Yes, it was her he was looking at, and there was meaning in his look. His eyes burned into her as though they would search her through and through, read her very soul. Wonderful eyes they were, superbly expressive, but could you trust them?" (U13.411) |
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"She could see at once by his dark eyes and his pale intellectual face that he was a foreigner, the image of the photo she had of Martin Harvey, the matinee idol, only for the moustache which she preferred" (13.415)
Martin Harvery (1863-1944), later Sir John Martin-Harvey (knighted 1921) was an extremely popular English stage actor. He made his debut in 1881. He was a member of the companies of Sir Henry Irving (1882), then Johnston Forbes-Robertson (1897), before starting his own. He was married to actress Miss N. de Silva (1869-1949). He had enormous success with The Only Way (adapted from Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities) and The Breed of the Treshams. With his company, he often toured the provinces to enthusiastic and adoring audiences. Here without a moustache... |
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...and here with.
Harvey's repertoire included Shakespeare's plays. In 1904, Harvey and his company were in Dublin where they opened Hamlet, before moving it to London in 1905. Harvey produced Hamlet, The Taming of the Shrew, Richard III and Henry V for the Shakespeare tercentenary in 1916. Between 1916 and 1931, he starred in 5 movies (4 silent and 1 talkie). |
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"He was in deep mourning, she could see that, and the story of a haunting sorrow was written on his face. She would have given worlds to know what it was. He was looking up so intently, so still and he saw her kick the ball and perhaps he could see the bright steel buckles of her shoes if she swung them like that thoughtfully with the toes down." (U13.421) |
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"a haven of refuge for the afflicted" (U13.444) |
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"because of the seven dolours which transpierced her own heart." (U13.445)
The seven dolours which transpierced Mary's own heart took place 1) at the prophecy of Simeon, 2) at the flight into Egypt, 3) having lost the child Jesus in Jerusalem 4) meeting Jesus on his way to Calvary, 5) standing at the foot of His Cross, 6) when He is taken from the Cross, 7) at His burial. The seven dolours are the attributes of Our Lady of Sorrows (Feasts around Easter, and September 15). They are the principal devotion of the Servite Order (founded 13c.). |
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"Gerty could picture the whole scene in the church, the stained glass windows lighted up, the candles, the flowers" (U13.446)
The interior of the Mary Star of the Sea church. Notice the stained glass windows, and the candle holders by the altar. |