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Chapter 2

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We are established at Derby. The Entertainment is written; and the

rehearsals are in steady progress. All difficulties are provided for,

but the one eternal difficulty of money. Miss Vanstone's resources

stretch easily enough to the limits of our personal wants; including

piano-forte hire for practice, and the purchase and making of the

necessary dresses. But the expenses of starting the Entertainment are

beyond the reach of any means we possess. A theatrical friend of

mine here, whom I had hoped to interest in our undertaking, proves,

unhappily, to be at a crisis in his career. The field of human sympathy,

out of which I might have raised the needful pecuniary crop, is closed

to me from want of time to cultivate it. I see no other resource

left--if we are to be ready by Christmas--than to try one of the local

music-sellers in this town, who is said to be a speculating man. A

private rehearsal at these lodgings, and a bargain which will fill

the pockets of a grasping stranger--such are the sacrifices which

dire necessity imposes on me at starting. Well! there is only one

consolation: I'll cheat the music-seller.

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