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Melodrama
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It is the custom on the stage: in all good, murderous melodramas: to present the tragic and the comic scenes, in as regular alternation, as the layers of red and white in a side of streaky, well-cured bacon. The hero sinks upon his straw bed, weighed down by fetters and misfortunes; and, in the next scene, his faithful but unconscious squire regales the audience with a comic song. We behold, with throbbing bosoms, the heroine in the grasp of a proud and ruthless baron: her virtue and her life al
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― Oliver Twist
― Oliver Twist
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[...] life had once again, perversely, refused to remain life-sized. It had turned melodramatic: and that embarrassed him.
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