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Again the curtain fell, the band struck up so light,' and roared with laughter

at a pretty cha booby as staying there, pitched hi an audacious song recounting her many exploits,

and finished with a pas-seul

The performers and their friends were invited to a sumptuous supper,

and the Fenmarket folk were not at home until half-past two in the

ainst the

juxtaposition of Shakespeare and such vulgarity

'Much better,' she said, 'to have left the Shakespeare out

altogether The lesson of the sequence is that each is good in its

way, a perfectly hateful doctrine to e were, however, in the best of hulass of wine beyond his custoood, Mrs Martin had to suit all tastes; wein this re to Clara; the word

'tastes,' for example, as if the difference between Miranda and the

chambermaid were a matter of 'taste' She was annoyed too with