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Title: The canadian magazine of politics, science, art and literature, November 1910-April 1911
Year: 1893 (1890s)
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Subjects: Canadian periodicals
Publisher: Toronto, Ontario publishing co
Contributing Library: Toronto Public Library: Research and Reference Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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iliations,wooings, wivings. Its principal char-acters are a bluff old sea admiral andconfirmed bachelor who fought underNelson, but is obliged at la/st to hauldown his colo\u-s to the widow next 476 THE CANADIAN MAGAZINE door; a masquerading coxcomb whobears a hyphenated name and pro-fesses terms of intimacy with thePrince and his set, but turns out tobe an ex-butler and official toast-master at civic gatherings; a youngfiddler who is learning some new mus-ic, just composed by a young Reetli^-ven; a fossilised clergyman and anti-quarian; and, last but not least, acharminsr widow and daughter. There is still another character, the cox-combs wile, who, for a very delicatereason disclosed later, never appears.And perhaps the most amusing pas-sages in the comedy are those betweenthis temporarily invalided wife and theoccasionally condescending husband,who at such times sits at her bedroomwindow and, single-handed, disclosesthe whole domestic picture within.Taking up the thread of the main
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Alice VVil.son MKS. S.\M .SOltlKltN Ch.\kloite Gr.\nvilleSCENE FROM WE CANT BE AS BAD PLAYS OF THE SEASON 477 story, the widow turns out to be theLucij Prior of former days, whomJohn Sayle (Tenth Baron Otford) hadonce wooed and foreaken but neverquite forgot. The story all comes outwhen, twenty years later, the eon ofJohn Saijle comes to woo Lucysdaughter. For quite different reasonsboth parents are trying to keep theyoung lovers apart; the father be-cause he has other prospects for his son and heir, the widow lest herdaughter find, a lifelong sorrow likeher own. The tale ends, of course,as every fairy-tale should, with there-uniting of the old loves and theirunqualified blessing on the young-sters. In fact, wedding bells by thistime are ringing from end to end ofPomander Walk. The admiralssuiTender we have already noted. Thefiddler has stopped plaA^ng Beethoven

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