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It lent personal dignity as well as talent to the actor's calling, and the inheritance of Joseph Jefferson, though it comprised neither lands nor jewels, was therefore not to be despised.

Hesitantly he said that he was sorry, he could bury no actor from the Church of the Atonement. “Well, sir,” said Joe Jefferson, “in this dilemma is there no other church to which you can ...