The Scenes of a Dramatic Performance

The play was not scheduled to begin until the great clock of the palace struck noon, quite late for a theatrical performance. Many people who had been shivering before the steps of the palace since dawn and some declared that it spent the whole night huddled in the great doorway in order to be among the first enter. The air was full of complaints and insults against the flimmings, carton of bourbon, the bailiff of the palace, the sergeants, the coal, the heat, the bad weather,. "I hope the time will be taken off my turban purgatory," said Gee-Ann Frallen.