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His fingers gripped her shoulders tighter for just a second, and he let her go. "I guess that part'll be all right," he rejoined in a tone she could not quite fathom. "I never had one in m' life." "Why, you poor thing!" She stood back and tilted her head at him. "You poor pal. I'll have to see about that immediately.
"Point out in a few well-chosen sentences how charming Mrs. Byng is . . ." "Mrs. Byng!" Reggie smiled fatuously. "I don't think I ever heard anything that sounded so indescribably ripping. That part'll be easy enough. Besides, the mater knows Alice." "Lady Caroline has seen me at the castle," said his bride doubtfully, "but I shouldn't say she knows me. She has hardly spoken a dozen words to me."
Egleton, took her benefit along with Hippisley, one of the best low comedians of the day, and selected Farquhar's "The Beaux' Stratagem" partly so she said, for Lavinia's sake. "You were made for Cherry, my dear," said she. "The part'll fit you as easily as an old glove."
"Yes," she assented, without any superfluous modesty, squeezing as she spoke a pair of bronze slippers into the crown of Francesca's favourite hat "yes, that part'll be hard on all of us; but I want you to know that I belong to you this winter, any way; Miss Peabody can get along without me better'n you can."
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