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" you entertained at the play last night?" said Lady Mandeville, who, apart from the other callers, had formed a little circle of Emily, Lorraine, and Mr. Morland. Edward Lorraine.—"Allow me to answer for you; Miss Arundel was delighted, for she was superlatively miserable—and the pleasure of a tragedy is to be measured by its sorrow." Emily.—"I never saw a tragedy before, and, to use one of Mr. Lorraine's own expressions, novelty is the secret of enjoyment; and I liked Miss Fanny Kemble so much." Mr. Morland.—"Excepting as matter of pedigree, our ancestors are exceedingly in the