The Sign of Four, Chs. 9-??: Workhouse Cough

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Title: The Sign of Four, Chs. 9-??: Workhouse Cough
Author: gardnerhill                        
Word Count: 60                     
Rating: G
Warning: Angst
Summary: A rare actor indeed.

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It was easy enough to portray the old mariner – simple observation of such fellows at the docks, coupled with deduction of what came from seamanship and what from a lifetime of poverty.

But to act pleased for Watson, who exhibited all the signs of falling irrevocably in love with a girl who offered a life of respectability and romance? Impossible.
 

Comments

[debriswoman]

Neatly observed:-)

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

The difference between an act for work and actual emotions.

[okapi1895.livejournal.com]

Poor Holmes. No faking everything.

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Thanks.

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

There are some things method acting can't cover.

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

There are limits to even a talented actor's abilities.

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

This is a really good point. I'd never looked at Holmes' acting in this way before. He fools Watson with his disguise but at the end doesn't manage to hide his feelings from him, when you might expect this to be easy for him.

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Some acting jobs are too big for even a master thespian.