Excerpt from Sir Jaffray's Wife I wonder if I did make a mistake with you, when I stopped you going on the boards. A Speech like that to the gods ought to draw many pounds a week to any house. You want a trifle more gesture. If you're going to say it again, either hold up the 'fetter, ' and flaunt it in my face, or dash it on the ground. The gallery likes gesture. Don't forget. But you'd better not rehearse here, because the rock is not very Wide, and if you chuck much of your jewelry about, some of it's pretty sure to roll down into the gorge, and what goes over there won't come up again. But there, what's the need for me to doubt your powers of acting. Haven't I seen you lead a dozen men ou - aye, and to the very verge, only for us to use 'em up in the end? You're a born actress, Lola, with limitations, and in a certain line. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.