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VIVIAN GREY.
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for Hamlet, solely because he wanted to act the ghost, which he proposed doing in white shorts, and a night-cap. A third was for Julius Cæsar, because the murder scene "would be such fun!"

"No! no!" said Vivian, tired at these various and varying proposals, "this will never do. Out upon Tragedies; let's have a Comedy!"

"A Comedy! a Comedy!—oh! how delightful!"