Excerpt from We Are Seven: Half-Hours on the Stage Grave and GayReaders and Listeners, we are seven. We hope you will not call us "The Seven Sleepers." One of us would arouse your sympathy - your tears, if possible. One offers the palliation for a lie; and one, showing how wide-awake a woman was, will keep you so, we trust, as effectually as it did when played by Mrs Kendal.None of us, on the stage or off it, will detain you more than half an hour. But this, we admit, is a poor plea for dulness.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.