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Miss Dickinson is to cross the dramatic Rubicon next Monday evening; she will appear in New York as Hamlet, and is said to dread lest the withering criticism of the city will destroy the laurels she has won in the provinces...
...have said their life was a humdrum life at best, but a grisette has many ephemeral pleasures in her petty victories, with the counter as her Rubicon, which has no daring Caesar to cross it; she has smiles for all, and most always a kind word for all, yet her smiles and kind word bring profit only to her employer, and now and then a tear to her own eye. Of course she has her little coterie of friends, and betimes her truelove; but she is loved but little by the first, and soon forgotten by the second. This little...