Crossword-Solution: COMEDIAN 8 letters, 103 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

However, while the unfortunate Irish comedian went through his “act” to the backs of the departing people, Mrs.

Sometimes she had said to herself that his happy temper, his eternal gaiety, was an affectation, a _pose_; but she was vaguely conscious that during the present summer he had been a highly successful comedian.

Her attitude was perpetually a sort of prayer for assistance, for explanation; and yet no woman in the world could have been less of a comedian.

Thackeray writes:— _The play is done_! _The curtain drops_, _Slow falling to the prompter’s bell_! _A moment yet the actor stops_, _And looks around_, _to say farewell_! A comedian who attempted any such abuse of the situation to-day would find himself addressing empty benches.

Lester, the comedian, and young Van Bibber had known each other at the university, when Lester's voice and gift of mimicry had made him the leader in the college theatricals; and later, when he had gone upon the stage, and had been cut off by his family even after he had become famous, or on account of it, Van Bibber had gone to visit him, and had found him as simple and sincere and boyish as he had been in the days of his Hasty-Pudding successes.