Name: Once a Week
Author: M. W. Hallett

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M. W. Hallett, Once a Week (1863)

“ I do not know why, but a man of this “genus” exercises a sort of serpent-like fascination over me, so that, though I loathe him, I cannot restrain myself from constantly watching him, and at each sally which sets the house in a roar, I find myself turning round to look at the brute to see if he has been able to withstand that last joke, and there behold him with the same stolid look either of perfect indifference, or pity for the poor idiots who can be amused with such childish nonsense! ”

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M. W. Hallett, Once a Week (1863)

“ I hasten of course to assure the old gentleman that his sentiments upon this point are in exact accordance with mine, and we are thereupon great friends. We are in the dress-circle, the curtain rises, and all is rapt attention for the first scene of “Hamlet,” which, as the Ghost appears almost immediately, soon becomes very exciting. ”

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M. W. Hallett, Once a Week (1863)

“ Now, I ask, is this sort of neighbour not irritating? But I haven’t nearly done yet. There is, (and this neighbour is a particular aversion of mine) the man or woman who sits next you, and has a method of laughing, the effect of which is a “hiss,” so like it that I have, on several occasions, heard an indignant audience insist upon an individual being “turned out,” who was enjoying the performance quite as much as themselves, but suffered from this unfortunate mode of expressing his or her enjoyment. ”

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M. W. Hallett, Once a Week (1863)

“ MY NEIGHBOUR AT THE THEATRE.
I have a grievance, one of old standing too, and it is a wonder therefore that I have not long ere this rushed into print with the true British feeling that a course of letter-press is the only system of blood-letting applicable to such a case. A “letter to the ‘Times’” has many a time arrested a fever, if indeed it has not in some instances prevented a suicide. ”

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M. W. Hallett, Once a Week (1863)

“ I should mention, however, that when, after the end of the scene between the Queen and Hamlet, in the third act, Paterfamilias announces in an authoritative tone to his family, “That he isn’t sure, after all, whether that fellow isn’t Hamlet himself,—”
“My friend!” the old gentleman, jumps up, exclaiming, “I can’t stand this any longer!” and after wishing me a hurried good-night, rushes out of the theatre.
Sometimes I get for a neighbour, a fellow who is the very antipodes of Paterfamilias ”

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M. W. Hallett, Once a Week (1863)

“ I go early, and find myself seated next to an old gentleman evidently a devout admirer of the immortal bard, and well up in all the different readings of particular passages adopted by actors of my day, and also those of his younger days. ”

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M. W. Hallett, Once a Week (1863)

“ Throughout the whole period, however, I can safely say that two out of three of my evenings, so far as enjoyment goes, have been marred by my neighbour. Are all theatre-goers equally afflicted, or is it a special ban upon me? ”

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