Excerpt: ...deficient in an important particular." "Oh, James!" "Yes, my dear. I regret to say you have no sense of humor; nummore than a cat, Jane." "What! because the poor thing can't laugh at your comedy?" "No, ma'am; but she laughs at nothing." "Try her with one of your tragedies, my lad." "I am sure, James," said the poor, good, lackadaisical woman, "if I don't laugh, it is not for want of the will. I used to be a very hearty laugher," whined she; "but I haven't laughed this two years." "Oh, indeed!" said the ...
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Excerpt: ...deficient in an important particular." "Oh, James!" "Yes, my dear. I regret to say you have no sense of humor; nummore than a cat, Jane." "What! because the poor thing can't laugh at your comedy?" "No, ma'am; but she laughs at nothing." "Try her with one of your tragedies, my lad." "I am sure, James," said the poor, good, lackadaisical woman, "if I don't laugh, it is not for want of the will. I used to be a very hearty laugher," whined she; "but I haven't laughed this two years." "Oh, indeed!" said the Woffington. "Then the next two years you shall do nothing else." "Ah, madam!" said Triplet. "That passes the art, even of the great comedian." "Does it?" said the actress, coolly. Lucy. "She is not a comedy lady. You don't ever cry, pretty lady?" Woffington (ironically). "Oh, of course not." Lucy (confidentially). "Comedy is crying. Father cried all the time he was writing his one." Triplet turned red as fire. "Hold your tongue," said he. "I was bursting with merriment. Wife, our children talk too much; they put their noses into everything, and criticise their own father." "Unnatural offspring!" laughed the visitor. "And when they take up a notion, Socrates couldn't convince them to the contrary. For instance, madam, all this morning they thought fit to assume that they were starving." "So we were," said Lysimachus, "until the angel came; and the devil went for the pie." "There-there-there! Now, you mark my words; we shall never get that idea out of their heads-" "Until," said Mrs. Woffington, lumping a huge cut of pie into Roxalana's plate, "we put a very different idea into their stomachs." This and the look she cast on Mrs. Triplet fairly caught that good, though somber personage. She giggled; put her hand to her face, and said: "I'm sure I ask your pardon, ma'am." It was no use; the comedian had determined they should all laugh, and they were made to laugh. Then she rose, and showed them how to drink healths a la Francaise; and keen were her...
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Good. 'Peg Woffington' by Charles Reade. Pub'd by Dodd, Mead; 1897. Good HC, no DJ. Red cloth over boards, silver stamped titles with repeating garland and mask decorations on front cover and spine. Lightly scuffed, clean, square covers and spine; rear cover has uneven fading from old damp exposure; spine faded with title just legible; tightly bound; owner name and date (1897) on front fly leaf; clean interior. 16mo, 276 pp.
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