The Awakening of Helena Richie by Margaret Wade Campbell Deland
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I do not myself approve of the theatre, but I am told respectable
persons have adopted the profession. Samuel, however, can't find any good in it." "He can't, can't he? Well, well; it was efficacious--it was efficacious!" "What was efficacious?" Benjamin Wright laughed loudly. "You--don't know? He never told you?" "You mean what you and he quarrelled about? No; he never told me." "He was a fool." "Benjamin, if you were not a fool at twenty-four; you missed a good deal." "And now he objects to theatrical things?" "He objects so intensely," said Dr. Lavendar, "that, anxious as I am to have you meet and bring this foolish and wicked quarrel to an end, I should really hesitate to have you do so, if you insisted on discussing that subject." Benjamin Wright lifted one trembling fist. "It was efficacious!" "And you would give your right hand to undo it," said Dr. Lavendar. The very old man lowered his shaking right hand and looked at it; then |
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