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was just as if he tasted it. ’Are you
happy?’ "Yes!’ said I, ’I am happy, and I
am welcome in all the towns I come to with my
company! There is certaialy one wish, that
comes now and then like a night-mare, which
rides on my good-humour, and that is to be a
theatrical manager for a living company – a
company of real men and women.’
"’You wish to have your puppets animated;
you would have them become real actors and
actresses,’ said he, ’and yourself be the manager?
you then think that you would be perfectly happy?’
"Now he did not think so, but I thought so;
and we talked for and against; and we were
just as near in our opinions as before. But we
clinked our glasses together, and the wine was
very good; but there was witchcraft in it, or
else the short and the long of the story would
be – that I was intoxicated.
"That I was not; my eyes were quite clear;
it was as if there was sunshine in the room, and
it shone out of the face of the polytechnic
candidate, so that I began to think of the
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