Harlequin and Columbine by Booth Tarkington
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Potter burst into terrible laughter. "All sawdust! That's why I
discharged her this afternoon." "You what?" Canby shouted incredulously. "I dismissed her from my company," said Potter with a startling change to icy calmness. "I dismissed her from my company this afternoon." Old Tinker leaned forward. "You didn't!" Potter's iciness increased. "Shall I repeat it? I was obliged to dismiss Miss Wanda Malone from my company, this afternoon, after rehearsal." "Why?" Canby gasped. "Because," said Potter, with the same calmness, "she has an utterly commonplace mind." Canby rose in agitation, quite unable, for that moment, to speak; but Tinker, still leaning forward, gazing intently at the face of the actor, made a low, long-drawn sound of wonder and affirmation, the slow exclamation of a man comprehending what amazes him. "So that's it!" "Besides being intensely ordinary," said Potter, with superiority, "I discovered that she is deceitful. That had nothing whatever to do with my decision to leave the stage." He whirled upon Tinker suddenly, and shouted: "No matter what you |
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