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"Don't dally around here, girls, when your company joins you," advised Anne, turning around, after she had started down the cliff-side. "I reckon we'd better go back with you mother can be the first to say how-dy to them," ventured Polly, looking like a stage-struck amateur at her first appearance before the public. "See here, Polly Brewster! Don't you go back on me!
From the first they had been drawn together; they were searching in an eager way for the same object; they had both been at a public school and once, when Shafto dropped a word about Sandhurst, Roscoe said: "I was intended for the Army, but I couldn't pass the doctor rather a facer after scraping through the exam.; when that was knocked on the head, I got a post as assistant-master, but I couldn't stick it for more than a couple of years; after that, I was in a newspaper office; then I got badly stage-struck and went on the boards.
Now, Josie had intended to begin with Romeo's much-enduring sweetheart, and follow her up with Bianca, Pauline, and several of the favourite idols of stage-struck girls; but being a shrewd little person, she suddenly saw the wisdom of Uncle Laurie's advice, and resolved to follow it.
"Dear Holloway: The experiment with the movies won the blue ribbon. I have a new plan on foot. You can help me in this, as well. I want you to engage for me a beautiful, clever and daring actress, afraid of nothing under the sun or moon, and absolutely unknown on Broadway. No amateurs or stage-struck heiresses or manicurists: you are the one impresario who can fill my bill.
"But, my dear Sir," interrupted the young Baronet, "your niece has not become an actress, only the wife of a promising actor." "No, but she will be one yet. She's stage-struck now, more than anything else; and mark my words, that villain will have her on the boards before the year's end, and live by her ranting. Why, you see, Sir Harry, strolling is in the blood, and must out, I suppose.
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