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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: company at large did not distinguish themselves. Macduff, to
the huge delight of the gallery, out-Macduff'd the average
ranter. The lady who filled the principal female part has
done better on other occasions, but I fear she has not metal
for what she tried last week. Not to succeed in the sleep-
walking scene is to make a memorable failure. As it was
given, it succeeded in being wrong in art without being true
to nature.
And there is yet another difficulty, happily easy to reform,
which somewhat interfered with the success of the
performance. At the end of the incantation scene the Italian
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