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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III Yes: Sir Charles was after Miss Woffington. I use that phrase because it is a fine generic one, suitable to different kinds of love-making. Mr Vane's sentiments were an inexplicable compound; but respect, enthusiasm and deep admiration, were the uppermost. The good Sir Charles was no enigma: he had a vacancy in his establishment?a very high situation, too, for those who like that sort of thing?the head of his table, his left hand when he drove in the Park, etc. To this he proposed to promote Miss Woffington. She was handsome and witty, and he liked her. But that was not what caused him to pursue her; slow, sagacious, inevitable, as a beagle. She was celebrated, and would confer great eclat on him. The scandal of possessing her was a burning temptation. Women admire celebrity in a man; but men adore it in a woman. The world, says Philip, is a famous man; What will not women love so taught ? I will try to answer this question. The women will more readily forgive disgusting physical deformity for Fame's sake, than we. They would embrace with more rapture a famous ourang- outang, than we an illustrious chimpanzee; but when it comes to moral deformity the tables are turned. Had the Queen pardoned Mr Greenacre and Mrs Manning, would the great rush have been on the hero, or the heroine ? Why, on Mrs Macbeth To her would the blackguards have brought honourable proposals, and the gentry liberal ones. Greenacre would have found more female admirers than I ever shall; but the grand stream of sexual admiration would have set Mariawards. This fact is as dark as night; but it is as sure as the sun. The next day the friends (most laughable of human substantives ) met in the theatre, and again visited the green-room; and this time Vane...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217528405 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217528406 |
| Weight | 0.45 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.30 In |
| List Price | $19.94 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 130 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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