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Peg Woffington

CHAPTER VI
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"Tragic authors should possess that, for they teach it to their audiences.

Managers, sir, are like Eastern monarchs, inaccessible but to slaves and sultanas.

Do you know I called upon Mr.Rich fifteen times before I could see him ?" "You, madam?
Impossible!" "Oh, it was years ago, and he has paid a hundred pounds for each of those little visits.

Well, now, let me see, fifteen times; you must write twelve more tragedies, and then he will read _one;_ and when he has read it, he will favor you with his judgment upon it; and when you have got that, you will have what all the world knows is not worth a farthing.

He! he! he! 'And like the birds, gay Nature's happy commoners, Rifle the sweets'-- mum--mum--mum." Her high spirits made Triplet sadder.


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