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It was but for a moment; for the very next words from the lips of the girl that was to him little more than a house-broom, set him face to face with reality the one terror of the unreal. "Eh, maister, sir," said Dawtie, with the tears in her eyes, and now at last breaking down in her English, "dinna ye ken 'at ye hae to gie the man 'at aucht that gowden bicker, the chance o' buyin' 't back?"
He took up a house-broom that stood in the corner. "In comedy I sweep the floor with it so and the people grin; in comic-opera I beat time with it as I sing so and the people laugh; in farce I beat my mother-in-law with it so and the people roar; in tragedy I lean upon it so and the people thrill; in melodrama I sweep away the snow with it so and the people burst into tears.
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