Note 15 — THE DRAMA.
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The Corsican Brothers is not an afterpiece, but to show what kind of writing is allowed to pass in even so successful a melodrama, let me quote a single speech: “At all events, you heard what I said to my servants; the house as well as they is at your command; use it, then, as if it were your own, and consider yourself as sincerely welcomed by the mother as you will be by the son as soon as he comes in.”