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As a boy he exhibited a genius for invention, as well as for acoustics. Much of this was duo to the wise encouragement of his father. He himself has told of a boyhood invention. My father once asked my brother Melville and myself to try to make a speaking-machine, I don't suppose he thought we could produce anything of value, in itself.
Woffington, too astonished for emotion to take any definite shape, said, in what seemed an ordinary tone: "Who is this lady?" "I am his wife, madam," said Mabel, in the voice of a skylark, and smiling friendly on the questioner. "It is my wife!" said Vane, like a speaking-machine; he was scarcely in a conscious state. "It is my wife!" he repeated, mechanically.
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