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By Friday of the week of her arrival in Beaconhite, Cis found herself / a burden on her own hands. Five days of what had become compulsory / idleness and pursuit of pleasure, were too many for the nerves of / active Cis Adair, trained by her lifelong habit into ways of industry.
Beaconhite did not offer enthralling pleasure to dwellers on its / surface. There were theatres, one principal one, two insignificant / ones, a vaudeville house, but even to the best of these, first-class / companies did not come; this week the third-class company which / was giving a metropolitan success for six nights and a matinée in / Beaconhite, had already been seen by Cis when they were doing the / same thing in her native city. There were "movies," but Cis happened / to be one of those persons to whom silent drama is annoying; she / wanted the spoken line, and disliked the necessary exaggeration of / the pictures. She went one night to see again the play which she had / already seen, and another night to the moving pictures; here she found / a film showing, which she had seen twice before, and this, added to her / dislike for this form of entertainment, sent her back to her hotel in a / bad temper.