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thrown off her religious scruples. She looked eager and her dark
eyes sparkled with
excitement. Our
seats were in the
pit. They
were not expensive, but we could see the
stage quite well.
I gave her the
programme and my opera glasses.
Presently
the lights went down; then the curtain
rose upon a
scene
of eighteenthcentury Paris at the time of the French
Revolution. It was a melodrama full of hopeless love and heroic
selfsacrifice, a play after Dickens’s novel “A Tale of Two Cities”.
When
Martin Harvey, a famous
actor, who
played the leading
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