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'In the profession, miss? 'What profession? 'The styge, of course. 'Well, ye yes, something of that sort. 'Don't tyke anybody that's on the styge. "Oh, dear! Oh, dear! I could have screamed, it was so ridiculous; but time was getting on, Big Ben was striking four, and the day was closing in.
"I did scream that time, the world was so nonsensical. At one place, being 'on the styge' I was not good enough to be taken in, at another I was not bad enough, and what in the name of all that was ridiculous was going to happen next?
After the tinkle of the electric bell announcing the second act she returned to the deserted corridor, and before her audience of one gave ridiculous imitations in dead silence of ladies using the puff and twiddling up their front hair. "My! It's you as oughter be on the styge, my dear," said Aggie. "Do you think so?" said Glory. "I'm going on myself soon. Charlie's getting me on the clubs."
I only got a sister." "What's her name?" "Lou," he answered. "That's her real name. But she got a fancy name yistiddy. She was took on at the opera yistiddy, to sing with a hunderd uvver girls on the styge. She's Lulu Luckingham now." "Oh Luckingham!" said Stafford, with a smile, for this was a name of his own family, and of much account in circles he frequented. "And who gave her that name?
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