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He habitually disliked such receptions as that in which he now took part, those soirées as fatiguing as those crowds where one packs six hundred persons in salons capable of holding only sixty: commonplace receptions, where the master of the house is as happy when he refuses invitations as a theatre-manager when his play is the rage; where one is stifled, crushed, and where one can only reach the salon after a pugilistic encounter, and where the capture of a glass of syrup entails an assault, and the securing of an overcoat demands a battle.
Asprey Chown was a theatre-manager of some activity, but he certainly had not truly comprehended that Mr. Asprey Chown was head of one of the two great rival theatrical combines and reputed to be the most accomplished showman in the Western hemisphere, with a jewelled finger in notable side-enterprises such as prize-fights, restaurants, and industrial companies.
"How do, Seven?" Mr. Rentoul Smiles winked. "This is my good friend, Alderman Machin, the theatre-manager from London." "Glad to meet you, sir." "She's not gone, has she?" asked Sachs, hurriedly. "No, my housekeeper wanted to talk to her. Come along." And in the waiting-room, full of permanent examples of the results of Mr.
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