You knew what Harlequin or Pantaloon was going to say before he opened his lips.
At last he becomes the shuffling slipperedPantaloon of our Christmas pantomimes.
However, as thePantaloon was not forthcoming, they could not be gone through with any useful effect.
How often have we wished that thePantaloon were our god-father!
With respect to their employment, Pantaloon and the Doctor, called by the Italians the two old men, represent the part of fathers, and the other parts where cloaks are worn.
The poor clown and the poor pantaloon who were at their duty!
You are youthful at least in your impulsiveness, but you are surely as blind as old Pantaloon in the comedy or you would see where your industry would be better employed in shielding your wife's honour and your own.
After that, David had the most hilarious hour of his life, entering into the childish pleasures of this family as heartily as if he had been brought up on sausages, and knocking the pantaloon down repeatedly.
The idea of Lal's paying revenue was evidently irresistibly comic, and the venerable pantaloon actually choked himself between a cough and a laugh, requiring to be held up and patted on the back.
Take the bridle from his honour's pony," cried a venerable pantaloon breathlessly.
When the dirt was pushed back to the mouth of the tunnel it was taken up in improvised bags, made by tying up the bottoms of pantaloon legs, carried to the Swamp, and emptied.
A handful was scooped up and speedily shoved into my leftpantaloon pocket.
Fastidio informed me the next day that the pantaloon and his wife refused to perform any more, but I made them alter their mind by giving them a benefit night.
I was also glad to see a Venetian of my acquaintance who played the pantaloon in the pantomime, three tolerably pretty actresses, a pulcinella, and a scaramouch.
Even to-day Pantaloon is still wearing the very Venetian clothes of the time when he first played the part.
Clown has a basket that he slyly sets down and Pantaloon falls over it, of course.
She welcomes Clown and Pantaloon with a kiss, one for each.
For Cousin Clown and Uncle Pantaloon aren't any use.
He can't bow all he wants to without knockingPantaloon over.
Clown and Pantaloon and Harlequin and Columbine are very simple folk, you know.
Then the music tells us quite unmistakably that Pantaloon and Clown are tumbling along.
This time Cousin Clown and Uncle Pantaloon helped her.
And on they tumble; thePantaloon and Clown that Children know!
His length of limb and hooked nose were his superficial qualifications to play roaring captains," Pantaloon explained.
It was Pantaloon who drove it, an obese and massive Pantaloon in a tight-fitting suit of scarlet under a long brown bed-gown, his countenance adorned by a colossal cardboard nose.
Well ahead rolled Binet, moving faster than any had ever seen him move, and swinging the long cane from which Pantaloon is inseparable.
If Pantaloon is to play Rhodomont, I think I'll leave you.
If Pantaloon had half your wit, we should have Burgundy to-night in spite of the flight of Cordemais.
Can the shoulders of Pantaloon carry the mantle of Figaro?
Then he turned slowly about, and came back towards Pantaloon and the rest of the company, who were now all grouped together, at gaze.
Moving with that noiseless tread of his, he had come up unheard behind them, and there he stood now in his scarlet suit of Pantaloon under a trailing bedgown, his little eyes glaring from either side of his false nose.
Pantaloon advanced to meet him with both hands out-held.
Pantaloon issued an order, and Rhodomont, who was indeed as gentle and amiable off the stage as he was formidable and terrible upon it, made the stranger free of the bucket in the friendliest manner.
Pantaloon advanced a step or two, stalking, his head thrown back, his manner that of a King's Lieutenant.
To that good-morning Pantaloonreplied in a bellow: "What the devil are you doing up there?
The pantaloon sprang erect and strode out of the room.
The clown and pantaloon made themselves white with flour from the cook, and red with rouge from some other domestic, who remained (like all true Christian benefactors) anonymous.
The old age of Pantaloon is marked by his leanness, and his spectacles and his slippers.
Pantaloon has been, at various times, husband, father, and widower.
On the same principle the gown of Pantaloon over his red waistcoat and breeches, commemorates a circumstance in Venetian history expressive of the popular feeling.
Vauxhall Bridge, and the Gardens which succeeds it, are also charmingly painted by the Grieves, and from hence the Clown and Pantaloon take an "Aeronautic excursion" to Paris.
When the Venetian republic lost Negropont mourning generally was adopted, and Pantaloon adopted it with the rest, and on the Continent mourning has, I believe, formed a component part of Pantaloon's dress ever since.
Can we doubt that this Pantaloon had come from the Italian theatre, after what we have already said?
So, in search of fitting knowledge, Poor Pierrot was sent to college, Where Pantaloon and Pantaloon In answerless riddles o' the moon Crammed more moonshine in his head.
Pappo, or Pappus, seems also to have been a character introduced along with Maccus, and, I should think, corresponded to the Pantaloonof modern pantomime.
Before I could recover from my confusion, I was tumbled over by Pantaloon and the clown; and I felt the sword of Harlequin making vigorous assaults, in a manner most degrading to my dignity.
Finally, with angry misgivings as to the capabilities of the present generation of boys, the old pantaloon suggested the offering of one whole anna for the first rat captured in Nanuk's maize-field.
But if a puppet or a pantaloonwere to do so we should scarcely be amused, for we could account for it, and see nothing wrong in his action.
