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THE WARDROBE MEN AND WOMEN
 

immeasurable and worthless collection, in which there is everything, but never what is required. In days gone by, the articles in this collection used to be sewn of good, valuable materials; now they are fabricated from paper, lining-material, or sacking, daubed and sprinkled with colours, and there you are. My word, how they look at close quarters!

The wardrobe men, too, bear their own special relation to the play. “That’s nothing of a piece,” they will say, “there are no changes of clothes in it!”

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