"I'm one of the ladies she means. I said she had a head like a
mop, and a waist like a bolster. So she has."
"I am the other lady," added the spinster relative. "But I only said she
was too stout for the part."
"I am the gentleman," chimed in Frank, stimulated by the force of
example. "I said nothing--I only agreed with the ladies."
Here Miss Garth seized her opportunity, and addressed the stage loudly
from the pit.
"Stop! Stop!" she said. "You can't settle the difficulty that way. If
Magdalen plays Julia, who is to play Lucy?"
Miss Marrable sank back in the arm-chair, and gave way to the second
convulsion.
"Stuff and nonsense!" cried Magdalen, "the thing's simple enough, I'll
act Julia and Lucy both together."
The manager was consulted on the spot. Suppressing Lucy's first
entrance, and turning the short dialogue about the novels into a
soliloquy for Lydia Languish, appeared to be the only changes of
importance necessary to the accomplishment of Magdalen's project.
Lucy's two telling scenes, at the end of the first and second acts, were
sufficiently removed from the scenes in which Julia appeared to give
time for the necessary transformations in dress.
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