A Practical Reader: With Exercises in Vocal CultureClark & Maynard, 1882 - 224 pages |
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Page 196 - cries Partridge, with a contemptuous sneer. " Why, I could act as well myself. I am sure, if I had seen a ghost, I should have looked in the very same manner, and done just as he did. And then, to be sure, in that scene, as you called it, between him and his mother, where you told me he acted so fine, why...