I snorted "oh, beauty. What's that good for?" Mary stared, her eyes round." It won you the prince, did it not?" I snorted again, I prefer to think that he was captivated by my charming personality." I giggled to let Mary know I was trying to make fun of myself. Margaret Peterson Haddix
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I snorted "oh, beauty. What's that good for?"Mary stared, her eyes round."It won you the prince, did it not?"I snorted again, I prefer to think that he was captivated by my charming personality." I giggled to let Mary know I was trying to make fun of myself. More than half of the actors in the cast of the play were women. It was a popular play in 17th-century New England so they had to cast more women than they probably would have liked. This is a common problem in theatre, since men are assumed to be more interested in action and women are assumed to be more interested in romance.

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