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Glanville[, with great Difficulty, kept himself from smiling; and], by some supplicating Looks to his Sister, prevented her laughing out; yet she gigled in secret behind her Fan: [But Arabella was so lost in her melancholy Reflections, that she kept her Eyes immoveably fixed on the Ground for some Moments: At last, casting an upbraiding Glance at Glanville; Is it possible, cruel Person that you are
It's small wonder that Rider, more used to introducing rug by league from Featherstone or cycling from Hartlepool -or whatever else Grandstand have bid highest for on any given Saturday -seems to have the immoveably glazed expression of someone having their neck massaged.
It is but one thing to take your chance of being sabred or hit by a bullet; but it is another (and to our mind) a much more terrible ordeal to pirouette in combustible gauze before the foot-lights, or, worse still, to be pinioned to an iron niche in some brilliant transformation scene, and to remain immoveably fixed to your precarious perch, amid a blaze of light and within leap of the flame from a thousand burners.
 
 
 
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