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t did the disappearing trick at the Folies Berg?res in Paris two years ago?"
"The same," says he.
"That she was a very fine actress. Do you deny it, Mr. Britten?"
I rose and buttoned my coat--but the black look was in his eyes again.
I thought upon it for a moment and could not deny the justice of it.
"Do you mean to say you did it for an advertisement?" I cried.
I rose and shook him by the hand.
"Fifty of the best," said I, "and I'll wait for them here."
Whether, however, the public really took it all, or whether it resented the manner of the play, is not for me to say.
Sentiment is, after all, a very fine thing, as I told Betsy Chambers the night I gave her the anchor brooch and asked her to wear it for auld lang syne, to say nothing of the good time we had when I took her to Maidenhead in old Moss's car and pretended I was broken down at Reading with a dot-and-go-one accumulator. Of course, Moss weighed in with an interview. I wonder the sight of his ugly old mug didn't shrivel the paper it was printed on.
Anyway me and Betsy--but that's another story, and so, perhaps, I had better conclude.
THE COUNTESS
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