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MRS. PARTINGTON AT THE PLAY.
“The play-house is the `way to the pit!'” said Mrs.
Partington, solemnly, and pointing significantly downward.
“But,” remonstrated a friend, who had asked her to
visit the Museum with him, “there is no pit in this
theatre, and the way to the pit is removed.”
She looked earnestly at him a moment, and then said
she would go. The play was the “Stranger,” and she
was much interested in it.
“Why don't he make it up with her?” she inquired.
“What 's the sense of being ugly when she 's so contricious
for what she had done, I should like to know? I
think it shows a bad temper in him; and the dear children,
too, coming in like little cherubs, to make 'em
forget all old troubles and follies! We had n't ought to
dwell so upon old grievousness, because we are all liable
creturs. How I do pity her!”
And the old lady wept copiously. She would n't leave
the house till she ascertained from the policeman whether
old Tobias got back his son that had 'listed, for he looked
but feeble, she said, when he went away, and the great
grief and the long pole the old gentleman carried for a
cane must have broken him down.
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