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She had not much to do in her part, but to look
handsome, and stand in picturesque attitudes encircling her child and she
did this work to admiration. In vain the various actors tried to win the
favour of the great stage Sultan. Pizarro never got a hand from him.
Bingley yelled, and Mrs. Bingley bellowed, and the Manager only took
snuff out of his great gold box. It was only in the last scene, when
Rolla comes in staggering with the infant (Bingley is not so strong as he
was and his fourth son Master Talma Bingley is a monstrous large child
for his age)--when Rolla comes staggering with the child to Cora, who
rushes forward with a shriek, and says--"O God, there's blood upon him!"
--that the London manager clapped his hands, and broke out with an
enthusiastic bravo.
Then having concluded his applause, Mr. Dolphin gave his secretary a slap
on the shoulder, and said, "By Jove, Billy, she'll do!"
"Who taught her that dodge?" said old Billy, who was a sardonic old
gentleman. "I remember her at the Olympic, and hang me if she could say
Bo to a goose.


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