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BOSTON THEATRE.- Cora Tanner in "Alone in London...
...thoroughly, and spared no pains to make his book as complete as possible. "Forever and a Day" is far better than the average novel, which merely introduces the reader to a few characters, who serve to amuse him for a summer afternoon. In the life of Robert Somers and Cora Pembroke, the characters of a true man and a true woman are presented to the reader...
...containing heroine's names, with appropriate rhymes; the list might be indefinitely extended: Mary, airy, fairy; Laura, saw her, adore her: Lucy, truce he, boozy; and so on, ad infinitum. It will also be noticed that one set of rhymes will frequently answer for several heroines; for instance, Dora, Cora, Flora, Leonora, and others. In addition to these tables, long lists of adjectives are furnished, - usually of a dyspeptic, graveyard-like sort, such as despairful, deathly, chillying, somber-seeming, and the like...
...they did, we don't know how, dear, but Marion, Cora...
...Marion, Cora, and I took it all very meekly, - a matter of course...