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Maggie: A Girl of the Streets

CHAPTER VIII
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Joy always within, and they, like the actor, inevitably without.

Viewing it, they hugged themselves in ecstatic pity of their imagined or real condition.
The girl thought the arrogance and granite-heartedness of the magnate of the play was very accurately drawn.

She echoed the maledictions that the occupants of the gallery showered on this individual when his lines compelled him to expose his extreme selfishness.
Shady persons in the audience revolted from the pictured villainy of the drama.

With untiring zeal they hissed vice and applauded virtue.
Unmistakably bad men evinced an apparently sincere admiration for virtue.
The loud gallery was overwhelmingly with the unfortunate and the oppressed.

They encouraged the struggling hero with cries, and jeered the villain, hooting and calling attention to his whiskers.


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