The Stage Door
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| Partner: | buecher.de |
| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Scott, Clement W.) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from The Stage Door: Stories by Those Who Enter It A Mean and narrow opening in an unromantic wall - an entrance less pretentious than any that can be found at the side of a factory gate - an approach difficult to find, hidden up a blind alley, swarming with miscellaneous children, and lumbered up with ragged and disconsolate looking scenery crumbling to ruin - a dark prison-looking gate, at whose ominous sight have fallen down the wreck of torn forests and the glory of departed palaces; the guardian an overworked and faithful servant, and the sentinel a carpenter, resting from his labours and smoking a clay pipe - this is the approach to a paradise that feeds the unhealthy imagination with unworthy fancies, and has given the text for many a lying sermon - this is the Stage Door. It is always well that people should be slightly acquainted with the subject they discuss; and I sometimes wish that those who are so eloquent in denouncing scenes with which they are evidently unfamiliar, lives of which they know nothing, and professions which might be far more honourable and honoured were they not so persistently maligned, boasted half the philosophy perspicuity, shrewd judgment, and common sense of my old friend Tom Porter. He was a stage-door keeper, and a man of vast experience, great memory, and considerable attainments. His father had been an actor who, under another name, was famous in the dramatic annals of his time, and his son promised to follow very close upon his father´s footsteps, when his bright career was cut short by a blundering half-drunken carpenter, who left a trap open one night, and crippled the poor fellow for life. Misfortune, so I have been told, fell heavily upon Tom Porter´s family soon after this deplorable accident, that nearly broke the heart of an honourable and ambitious man. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.
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