"Gesticulatory" Quotes from Famous Books
... be serious—if you care To know how I shall really bear This much-discussed rejection, I answer you. As feeling men Behave, in best romances, when You outrage their affection;— With that gesticulatory woe, By which, as melodramas show, Despair is indicated; Enforced by all the liquid grief Which hugest pocket-handkerchief Has ever simulated; And when, arrived so far, you say In tragic accents, "Go," Then, Lydia, then ... I still shall stay, And ... — The Bed-Book of Happiness • Harold Begbie |