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"Betty lass," exclaimed my Lady Herminia, surveying her handsome features in the travelling-mirror, "Old Drury hath lost a notable and vastly clever actress in me! I ha' played the innocent country wench to such infinite perfection of admiration that the poor fool languishes already. ogles my charms and talks-of my soul! Oh, a dangerous man, Bet, a wicked wretch-one o' your soft-spoke, smooth-tongued, dove-eyed, silky, seducing monsters-a very serpent of iniquity, child! But I'm no poor, meek, bread-and-butter miss to be lured to shame or whispered to destruction by any such perfidious and patent villain, not I, Bet!"
"Oh no, my lady! " nodded placid Betty. "No, indeed, mam, heaven knows you'm a sight too clever an' knowin' -- "