From The Circle: A Comedy in Three Acts by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

He followed my instructions to the letter. I've just seen him. She's shaken. I'm willing to bet five hundred pounds to a penny that she won't bolt. A downy old bird, eh? Downy's the word. Downy. (He begins to laugh. They laugh, too. Presently they are all three in fits of laughter. [The Curtain Falls) THE END Transcriber's Note This transcription is based on scanned images posted by the Internet Archive from a copy in the University of California, Santa Barbara Library: archive.org/details/circlecomedyinth00maug The following changes were noted: - In the original text, titles for each act (e.g., "THE FIRST ACT") were printed on otherwise blank pages. In addition, the associated versos were blank, as were two of the pages facing these pages. These pages were not included or otherwise identified in the transcription, and thus in the html version of this transcription pp. 6-8, pp. 34-35, and pp. 64-66 are missing from the page count. - p. 15:...and a note was found on the pin-cushion.--Deleted hyphen in "pin-cushion" for consistency. - p. 36:...you'll discover that onlokers are expected...--Changed "onlokers" to "onlookers". - p. 40: She's tinsel You think I'm...--Inserted a period after "tinsel". - p. 44: [ (Almost giving it up as a bad job.) Oh, my God!--Inserted a closing bracket after " job. " The html version of this etext attempts to reproduce the layout of the printed text. However, some concessions have been made. For example, stage directions printed flush right were indented the same amount from the left margin and coded as hanging paragraphs.

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