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murderers。 

     And   then�察  �again�察  �it   is   something   extraordinary�察  �when   you   come   to 

think of it�察�what a tremendous amount of killing some of them can stand 

and   still   come   up   smiling   in   the   next   act�察  �not   a   penny   the   worse   for   it。 

They get stabbed�察�and shot�察�and thrown over precipices thousands of feet 

high and�察�bless you�察�it does them goodit is like a tonic to them。 

     As for the young man that is coming home to see his girl�察�you simply 



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can't kill him。     Achilles was a summer rose compared with him。                   Nature 

and mankind have not sufficient materials in hand as yet to kill that man。 

Science has but the strength of a puling babe against his invulnerability。 

You     can   waste    your    time   on   earthquakes      and    shipwrecks�察    �volcanic 

eruptions�察    �floods�察  �explosions�察    �railway   accidents�察    �and   such   like  sort  of 

things�察�if you are foolish enough to do so�察�but it is no good your imagining 

that anything of the kind can hurt him�察�because it can't。 

     There will be thousands of people killed�察�thousands in each instance�察�

but one human being will always escape�察�and that one human being will be 

the stage young man who is coming home to see his girl。 

     He   is   forever   being   reported   as   dead�察  �but   it   always   turns   out   to   be 

another fellow who was like him or who had on his ��the young man's�� hat。 

He is bound to be out of it�察�whoever else may be in。 

     ;If I had been at my post that day�察─�he explains to his sobbing mother�察�

;I should have been blown up�察�but the Providence that watches over good 

men had ordained that I should be laying blind drunk in Blogg's saloon at 

the time the explosion took place�察�and so the other engineer�察�who had been 

doing my work when it was his turn to be off�察�was killed along with the 

whole of the crew。; 

     ;Ah�察�thank   Heaven�察 �thank   Heaven   for that� ─ �ejaculates   the  pious   old 

lady�察  �and   the   comic   man   is   so   overcome   with   devout   joy  that   he   has   to 

relieve   his   overstrained heart   by  drawing   his   young   woman   on   one   side 

and grossly insulting her。 

     All attempts to kill this young man ought really to be given up now。 

The job has been tried over and over again by villains and bad people of 

all kinds�察�but no one has ever succeeded。               There has been an amount of 

energy and ingenuity expended in seeking to lay up that one man which�察�

properly utilized�察�might have finished off ten million ordinary mortals。                   It 

is sad to think of so much wasted effort。 

     He�察�the young man coming home to see his girl�察�need never take an 

insurance      ticket   or   even   buy    a  _Tit   Bits_。     It   would    be   needless 

expenditure in his case。 

     On   the   other   hand�察  �and   to   make   matters   equal�察  �as   it   were�察  �there   are 

some   stage   people   so   delicate   that   it   is   next   door   to   impossible   to   keep 



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them alive。 

     The     inconvenient      husband     is  a   most    pathetic    example     of   this。 

Medical   science   is   powerless   to   save   that   man   when   the   last   act   comes 

round�察�indeed�察 �we  doubt   whether  medical science�察 �in   its present state of 

development�察�could even tell what is the matter with him or why he dies at 

all。   He   looks   healthy   and   robust   enough   and   nobody   touches   him�察  �yet 

down he drops�察�without a word of warning�察�stone´dead�察�in the middle of 

the floorhe always dies in the middle of the floor。               Some folks like to 

die in bed�察�but stage people don't。          They like to die on the floor。         We all 

have our different tastes。 

     The   adventuress   herself   is   another   person   who   dies   with   remarkable 

ease。    We suppose in her case it is being so used to it that makes her so 

quick and clever at it。       There is no lingering illness and doctors' bills and 

upsetting of the whole household arrangements about her method。                        One 

walk round the stage and the thing is done。 

     All bad characters die quickly on the stage。              Good characters take a 

long time over it�察�and have a sofa down in the drawing´room to do it on�察�

and have sobbing relatives and good old doctors fooling around them�察�and 

can   smile   and   forgive   everybody。      Bad   stage   characters   have   to   do   the 

whole job�察�dying speech and all�察�in about ten seconds�察�and do it with all 

their clothes on into the bargain�察�which must make it most uncomfortable。 

     It is repentance that kills off   the bad people in plays。             They  always 

repent�察  �and   the   moment   they   repent   they   die。   Repentance   on   the   stage 

seems to be one of the most dangerous things a man can be taken with。 

Our advice to stage wicked people would undoubtedly be�察 �Never repent。 

If you value your life�察�don't repent。         It always means sudden death� ─�

     To   return   to   our   adventuress。    She   is   by   no   means   a   bad   woman。 

There is much good in her。          This is more than proved by the fact that she 

learns to love the hero before she dies�察�for no one but a really good woman 

capable     of   extraordinary     patience    and   gentleness     could   ever�察  �we   are 

convinced�察�grow to feel any other sentiment for that irritating ass�察�than a 

desire to throw bricks at him。 

     The stage adventuress would be a much better woman�察�too�察�if it were 

not    for   the   heroine。      The     adventuress     makes     the   most     complete 



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arrangements for being noble and self´sacrificingthat is�察�for going away 

and   never   coming   back�察  �and   is   just   about   to   carry   them   out�察  �when   the 

heroine�察�who has a perfect genius for being in the wrong place at the right 

time�察�comes in and spoils it all。        No stage adventuress can be good while 

the heroine is about。       The sight of the heroine rouses every bad feeling in 

her breast。 

     We can sympathize with her in this respect。            The heroine often affects 

ourselves in precisely the same way。 

     There is a good deal to be said in favor of the adventuress。               True�察�she 

possesses   rather     too  much   sarcasm   and      repartee   to  make    things   quite 

agreeable round the domestic hearth�察�and when she has got all her clothes 

on there is not much room left in the place for anybody else�察�but taken on 

the whole she is decidedly attractive。          She has grit and go in her。        She is 

alive。    She can do something to help herself besides calling for ;George。; 

     She has not got a stage childif she ever had one�察�she has left it on 

somebody else's doorstep which�察�presuming there was no water handy to 

drown it in�察�seems to be about the most sensible thing she could have done 

with it。    She is not oppressively good。 

     She never wants to be ;unhanded; or ;let to pass。; 

     She is not always being shocked or insulted by people telling her that 

they love her�察�she does not seem to mind it if they do。              She is not always 

fainting�察�and crying�察�and sobbing�察�and wailing�察�and moaning�察�like the good 

people in the play are。 

     Oh�察  �they   do   have   an   unhappy   time   of   itthe   good   people   in   plays� �

Then she is the only person in the piece who can sit on the comic man。 

     We   sometimes   think   it   would   be   a   fortunate   thingfor   himif   they 

allowed her to marry and settle down quietly with the hero。                   She might 

make a man of him in time。 



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                   THE SERVANT´GIRL。 



     There are two types of servant´girl to be met with on the stage。              This 

is an unusual allowance for one profession。 

     There is the lodging´house slavey。         She has a good heart and a smutty 

face and is always dressed according to the latest fashion in scarecrows。 

Her   leading   occupation   is   the   cleaning   of   boots。 She   cleans   boots   all 

over the house�察�at all hours of the day。         She comes and sits down on the 

hero's breakfast´table and cleans them over the poor fellow's food。                She 

comes into the drawing´room cleaning boots。 

     She has her own method of cleaning them�察�too。             She rubs off the mud�察�

puts on the blacking�察�and polishes up all with the same brush。              They take 

an enormous amount of polishing。            She seems to do nothing else all day 

long but walk about shining one boot�察�and she breathes on it and rubs it till 

you wonder there is any leather left�察�yet it never seems to get any brighter�察�

nor�察�indeed�察�can you expect it to�察�for when you look close you see it is a 

patent´leather boot that she has been throwing herself away upon all this 

time。 

     Somebody has been having a lark with the poor girl。 

     The   lodging´house   slavey   brushes   her   hair   with   the   boot   brush   and 

blacks the end of her nose with it。 

    We were acquainted with a lodging´house slavey oncea real one�察�we 

mean。     She   was   the   handmaiden   at   a   house   in   Bloomsbury   where   we 

once hung out。       She was untidy in her dress�察 �it is   true�察�but   she had not 

quite that castaway and gone´to´sleep´in´a´dust´bin appearance that we�察�an 

earnest student of the drama�察�f
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