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"Shall you be ready to meet Shakespeare when he comes here on Tuesday / night, Beth? " asked Mr. Cortlandt unexpectedly, emerging from behind / his morning paper. "It is the custom of some people to ‘get up' handy / quotations from an author before meeting him, to have them ready to / use; it's supposed to please him, but all real authors hate it. If you / like I'll rehearse the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet and we'll / act it for Mr. Shakespeare when he comes."
Beth smiled in a puzzled way, looking inquiringly at her uncle. She / knew there was some clue to the meaning of his nonsense, but she lacked / it.