A double act is always twice the act that the audience thinks it beyond our songs, our steps, our bits of business with coins and canes and flowers, there was a private language, in which we held an endless, delicate exchange of which the crowd knew nothing. You will not believe me, but making love to Kitty - a thing done in passion, but always, too, in shadow and silence, and with an ear half-cocked for the sound of footsteps on the stairs - making love to Kitty and posing at her side in a shaft of limelight, before a thousand pairs of eyes, to a script I knew by heart, in an attitude I had laboured for hours to perfect - these things were not so very different. “Her friend - and her partner on the stage. ― Sarah Waters, quote from Tipping the Velvet I had said too much - but it was that, or say nothing.” I felt as if my admiration for Kitty Butler had lit a beacon inside me, and opening my unguarded mouth had sent a shaft of light into the darkened room, illuminating all.
There was a look on her face - it was not ambiguous at all now - a look of mingled shock, and nervousness, and embarrassment or shame. I opened my eyes and looked at Alice - and knew at once that I shouldn’t have spoken that I should have been as dumb and as cunning with her as with the rest of them. I never knew that there were girls like her…” My voice became a trembling whisper then, and I found that I could say no more. She makes me sore, here.” I placed a hand upon my chest, upon the breast-bone. Then she walks on the stage and - she is so pretty and her suit is so nice and her voice is so sweet… She makes me want to smile and weep, at once. I watch the acts before her and they are like nothing - they’re like dust. It’s like I am filling up, like a wine-glass when it’s filled with wine.
It’s like I never saw anything at all before. At the same time, behind closed doors, they admit their attraction to each other and their affair begins.“When I see her,” I said, “it’s like - I don’t know what it’s like.
Soon after, she becomes Kitty’s dresser and the two head for the bright lights of Leicester Square where they begin a glittering career as music-hall stars in an all-singing and dancing double act. Through a friend at the box office, Nan manages to visit all her shows and finally meet her heroine. Nan King, an oyster girl, is captivated by the music hall phenomenon Kitty Butler, a male impersonator extraordinaire treading the boards in Canterbury. Before starting the reading or downloading, here is the summary of the book that you can read. “Tipping the Velvet” is a good book that you can read online or download to read it later. If you need this book in any specific format, you can request us. “Tipping the Velvet” is an impressive book that is now available in various format including Kindle, ePub, and PDF. Tipping the Velvet PDF Book read online or download for free.
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