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of my grandfather on a dull-looking platform. To me his distress was absolutely real. I had never before seen a grown-up person cry. I had not known that they ever did or ever could do so. And that "Venerables", of all people in the world, should cry with all those people looking on, and that no one should dare â as it seemed to me â to express sympathy, or offer consolation, was nothing short of an upheaval in my universe.'
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breaks down â the moment, I suppose, of this tragedy â without remembering the horror and dismay which seized upon me then. I knew nothing whatever about acting; any ideas I had about "pretending" were associated with the
Christmas pantomime, and did not assimilate at all with the solitary appearance
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she was known as 'Mekitty', and as a child she called her grandfather 'Venerables'. Mary Angela
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during one of his last public readings, and later in life recollected her shock at seeing her grandfather crying over the death of
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