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Sandra Belloni

CHAPTER XXV
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Girls ought to learn to laugh as well as boys.

I'll ring for Braintop." He rang the bell, and bade Emilia be careful to remind him that he wanted Braintop's address; for Braintop was useful.
It appeared that there were farces at several of the theatres.

Braintop rattled them out, their plot and fun and the merits of the actors, with delightful volubility, as one whose happy subject had been finally discovered.

He was forthwith commissioned to start immediately and take a stage-box at one of the places of entertainment, where two great rivals of the Doctor genus promised to laugh dull care out of the spirit of man triumphantly, and at the description of whose drolleries any one with faith might be half cured.

The youth gave his address on paper to Emilia.
"Make haste, sir," said Mr.Pole.


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