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Sister Carrie

CHAPTER XVI
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Now you want to go, I know you do.

I knew it when I came home.

That's why I asked you." "What is the play, did you say ?" "'Under the Gaslight.'" "What part would they want me to take ?" "Oh, one of the heroines--I don't know." "What sort of a play is it ?" "Well," said Drouet, whose memory for such things was not the best, "it's about a girl who gets kidnapped by a couple of crooks--a man and a woman that live in the slums.

She had some money or something and they wanted to get it.

I don't know now how it did go exactly." "Don't you know what part I would have to take ?" "No, I don't, to tell the truth." He thought a moment.


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