Her Faithful Knight — page 101: what you’re looking at

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A New Career. 97 could act. Well, I'll put it another way. How would you like to earn some money?” “Very much, indeed!’ “Eight or ten pounds a week, for instance?” Dorothy stared at him in astonishment. From her sis- ter’s experience she knew quite well that a guinea a week was quite as much as a beginner without money, posi- tion, or influence could hope for. “Mind, it’s only for a six weeks’ summer tour in the seaside towns,” Mr. Whitlock said. “The fact is, the Hon. Darcy Derrick, whom you saw here just now, has come into some money on the death of his father, Baron Derrick, and by way of investing it, he intends taking round a company ina play he’s written himself. Here Mr. Whitlock stopped to laugh at what he evi- dently considered a humorous notion. “Whether he loses his money or not is his budinees not mine,” he went on. “He has asked me to book the tour and engage the company. It will be called ‘Mr. Darcy’s Comedy Company,’ on account of Lord Derrick being so recently dead. The heroine’s a very good part —at least, so the author tells me. I haven’t read the piece yet, but I suppose I shall have to, sooner or later, for my sins, and Mr. Derrick had thought of engaging Miss Ella Carisbrooke; have you seen her? A great big, handsome, yellow-haired girl, who made rather a hit by her looks in that failure at the Embankment Theatre. Anyhow, when he met you here this morning he thought your face and figure would suit the part, and besides that he seems a sentimental young gentleman, and distressed to hear you had a dying sister who had been cheated out of some money by that disreputable connection of his he’d helped out of the country. So he’s told me to offer you the part of Zara, in ‘Love’s Right,’ asyhe calls his con- coction. As to the terms, he leaves them to you, and as, GEomichook (EC) Im