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Peg Woffington

CHAPTER XIII
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Did not my heart warm to her among them all?
There is a heart at the bottom of all her acting, and that heart is good and noble." "She is, madam! she is! and charitable too.

I know a family she saved from starvation and despair.

Oh, yes! she has a heart--to feel for the _poor,_ at all events." "And am I not the poorest of the poor ?" cried Mrs.Vane.

"I have no father nor mother, Mr.Triplet; my husband is all I have in the world--all I _had,_ I mean." Triplet, deeply affected himself, stole a look at Mrs.Woffington.

She was pale; but her face was composed into a sort of dogged obstinacy.
He was disgusted with her.


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