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Excerpt from The Actress of the Present Day, Vol. 3 of 3 The calmness with which these wordsg were accompanied, rendered them sharper than were they uttered with more She felt hurt at the coolness in her benefac tress's manner; and though now was the proper time for her to forego her own ideas, and coincide with her friends, a mistaken pride, and andthe dread of violating her oath, er of being thought wavemng, kept poor Mary silent. She thought, were she now to acquiesce, it might be laid to a mercenary mo tive; and this unfortunately prevented her yielding tce wiser suggestions of experi ence; for, to say the truth, prudence whis pered her, they were right. She on destly observed, if ever she saw the est 1eason to believe she acted wron this instance, fshe atone for her error, by removmg e cause, but hoped their fears were groundless. 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.