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The railroad trip finished him, I bet yer." "Did he die?" Abe asked. "Well, no, he didn't die exactly," Klinger replied; "but on the train the rheumatism went to his head, and that poor, sick young feller took a whole theayter troupe into the café car and blows 'em to tchampanyer wine yet. Two hundred dollars it costed him." "That's all right, Sol," Abe replied.
Nurse Jinny Jones and me scrouged into the pit one night without paying, "pertendin'," as we were in uniform, we had come to take out a "Lydy" that had fainted. Such larks! and such a glorious theayter! I'll tell you another time. Tell aunty the Queen's always out when I call. But that's nothing, everybody else is so affable and polite in London.
On Saturday morning, after he had come and gone, she whispered ecstatically: "That fellow is stuck on you, and I'll bet he'll be askin' you to go to the theayter with him just see if he don't!" But alas for woman's dreams! The next day we saw the boss coming across the floor, this time alone.
Pade. He wore it to a sheet and piller case party. I didn't want fer to take nuthin' from him, cause he give us money when we hed the fever, but he wouldn't hev it that way. "'Aug. 5. Pete Noyes. Gum. He's the boy what sells gum to the theayter. He was agoin' to a party whar you hev to be the name of a book. He wore the surplus so his name was the Little Minister.
Gone to the theayter with Sir Francis Lennox." Lord Winsleigh turned upon him sharply. "I did not ask you, Briggs, where she had gone, or who accompanied her. Have the goodness to answer my questions simply, without adding useless and unnecessary details." Briggs's mouth opened a little in amazement at his master's peremptory tone, but he answered promptly "Very good, my lord!"
Bein' new to this job, I'd like your opinion; but where, thinks I, 'll he likelier draw a 'ouse than at Tizzer's Green yonder? two thousand op'ratives, an' I doubt if the place has ever seen a travellin' theayter since it started to grow. Anyway, Mortimer has been pushin' inquiries: an' that makes Secondly.
Pade. She got merried by an Episcopal minister, and he furgot his surplus, and that was all she hed hired him fer, so she rented our'n fer him, and Mr. Jimmels, her new husband, took it outen the minister's pay. Somethin' allers goes wrong to her weddin's." "Does she have them often?" interrupted John gravely. "Quite frequent." "'Aug. 3, Mister Vedder, Ticket Seller to the Theayter. 1 doller.
"I don't 'spect it's much when you git inside," said Billy, trying the effects of negative consolation. "Yes, 't is, Billy Wiggs," answered his mother, impressively. "You ain't never been inside a theayter, an' I have. I was there twict, an' it was grand! You orter see the lights an' fixin's, an' all the fine ladies an' their beaus.
Most of the young people were either on the stage or behind the curtain; but the few who were in the audience broke into cheers, which were quickly quelled by Deacon Thomas, whose son John had led the applause. He bent forward and gripped Deacon Farley by the shoulder. "Silas!" he said, "I don't see anythin' sinful in the speakin' part, but that animal is too much like a theayter!"
Entranced, she listened to the service, sitting upright and very still. The spiritual significance of the music, the massing of foliage and flowers in the chancel, the white altars with their many lighted candles, were very impressive to the little wide-eyed worshipper. "Their settin's is all right," she said to herself critically, "and it ain't like the theayter. It's "
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