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Eva Moore. Exits and Entrances
Exits and Entrances
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. HOME
CHAPTER II. THE START
CHAPTER III. WEDDING BELLS
CHAPTER IV. PLAYS AND PLAYERS
CHAPTER V. MORE PLAYS AND PLAYERS
CHAPTER VI. FOR THE DURATION OF THE WAR
CHAPTER VII. THE SUFFRAGE
CHAPTER VIII. PEOPLE I HAVE MET
CHAPTER IX. PERSONALITIES
CHAPTER X. STORIES I REMEMBER
CHAPTER XI. ROUND AND ABOUT
CHAPTER XII. A BUNDLE OF OLD LETTERS
CHAPTER XIII. HARRY, THE MAN
CHAPTER XIV. HARRY, THE PLAYWRIGHT
CHAPTER XV. HARRY, THE ACTOR
CHAPTER XVI. AND LAST
APPENDICES
APPENDIX I. PARTS PLAYED BY EVA MOORE
APPENDIX II. SOME PARTS PLAYED BY H. V. ESMOND
APPENDIX III. PLAYS WRITTEN BY H. V. ESMOND
SHORT PLAYS
INDEX
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Eva Moore
Published by Good Press, 2021
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We all sang in the church choir; not all at once; as the elder ones left, the younger ones took their places. Boys from the boarding school in Montpelier Square used to be brought to church: we exchanged glances, and felt desperately wicked. Once (before she sang in the choir) Decima took 3d. out of the plate instead of putting 1d. into it.
At that time our pocket-money was 1d. a week, so I presume we were given “collection money” for Sunday; this was later increased to 2s. a month, when we had to buy our own gloves. Thus my mother’s birthday present—always the same: a pot of primulas (on the receipt of which she always expressed the greatest surprise)—represented the savings of three weeks on the part of Decima and me. It was due to parental interference in a love affair that I once, in a burst of reckless extravagance, induced Decima to add her savings to mine and spend 5d. in sweets, all at one fell swoop.
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