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Title: Dicken's works
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
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Publisher: Boston : Estes & Lauriat
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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tock-broker in especially comfortablecircumstances), and great was the anxiety of Mr.Gattletons interesting family, as the day fixed forthe representation of the Private Play which hadbeen many months in preparation, approached.The whole family was infected with the mania forPrivate Theatricals; the house, usually so cleanand tidy, was, to use Mr. Gattletons expressivedescription, regularly turned out o windows ; the large dining-room, dismantled of its furnitureand ornaments, presented a strange jumble of flats,flies, wings, lamps, bridges, clouds, thunder andlightning, festoons and flowers, daggers and foils,and various other messes in theatrical slang includedunder the comprehensive name of properties.The bedrooms were crowded with scenery, thekitchen was occupied by carpenters. Rehearsalstook place every other night in the drawing-room,and every sofa in the house was more or less dam-aged by the perseverance and spirit with which Mr.Semprouius Gattleton, and Miss Lucina, rehearsed
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SKETCHES BY BOZ. 159 the smothering scene in • Othello — it having beendetermined that that tragedy should form the firstportion of the evenings entertainments. When were a leetle more perfect, I think it willgo admirably, said Mr. Sempronius, addressing hiscorps dramatique, at the conclusion of the hundredand fiftieth rehearsal. In consideration of hissustaining the trifling inconvenience of bearing allthe expenses of the play, Mr. Sempronius had been,in the most handsome manner, unanimously electedstage-manager. Evans, continued Mr. Gattletonthe younger, addressing a tall, thin, pale younggentleman, with extensive whiskers, — Evans, youplay Roderigo beautifully. Beautifully! echoed the three Miss Gattletons;for Mr. Evans was pronounced by all his ladyfriends to be quite a dear. He looked so inter-esting, and had such lovely whiskers: to say noth-ing of his talent for writing verses in albums andplaying the flute ! Roderigo simpered and bowed. But I think, added the manager, yo

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