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New Burlesques

BOOK II
7/13

There! Go on now! Bring on your bears." They had visited the chambers which Lord Brownstone and Drake occupied together, and in girlish innocence had put on the gentlemen's clothes and danced before them.

Then they all went to the theatre, where Golly's delightful simplicity and childish ignorance of the world had charmed them.

Everything to her was new, strange, and thrilling.

She even leaned from the carriage windows to see the "wheels go round." She was surprised at the number of people in the theatre, and insisted on knowing if it was church, because they all sat there in their best clothes so quietly.

She believed that the play was real, and frequently, from a stage box, interrupted the acting with explanations.
She informed the heroine of the design of the villain waiting at the wings.


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