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to vary the amusements of the evening by introducing some of the numerous plays or games which are always the delight of fine children, and which, by way of variety, frequently afford much diversion to adults. It is not necessary that all these plays should become
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or that all the players should be persons of talent. But it is certainly desirable that the majority of the company should have some tact, and some quickness of parts; that they should have read some books, and mixed somewhat with the world--otherwise, they will not be clever even at playing plays. Those who are incapable of understanding, or entering into the spirit of a play, would do well to excuse themselves from joining in it, and prefer sitting by as spectators. Many young ladies can play nothing beyond
human
How do you like it? and are not great at that--saying, when the question is put to them--
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Me! I am sure I don't know how I like it--can't you pass me by? You may as well take her at her word, pass her by, and proceed on to her next neighbour; for if she _does_ concoct an answer, it will probably, if the word is
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be liked
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or if
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is the word, it will be liked
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At a party where these personages were so engaged in talking, that they forgot to keep the run of the plays; a new game was commenced by a young gentleman slipping out of the room, and then returning with a very lugubrious visage, and announcing, in a melancholy tone, the death of a certain monarch, whom all the company were immediately to unite in lamenting loudly, on pain of paying forfeits unless they steadily persisted in their dismal faces. On the sad intelligence being proclaimed--
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The king of Bohemia is dead! --one of our travelled ladies mistaking it for a solemn truth, turned to her daughter with--
gpt
Ah! Caroline! did you hear that? The dear good king of Bohemia, who was so kind to us whenever we attended his court!
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Oh! mamma! replied Caroline, putting her handkerchief to her eyes--