An Equivocal Compliment

George du Maurier

Lady Prattler (a confirmed first-nighter to actor-manager) — "I congratulate you on your success last night, Mr.McStamp! . . . How good you were! It was all charming — so light, so bright, so well puct on the stage! . . . And oh! such nice longh entr'acts, you know!"

Scanned image and text by George P. Landow

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References

du Maurier, George. English Society. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1897.

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