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“I suppose that every author’s ambition is to get his play produced before a London audience... It has been mine, and I have achieved it.”
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The speaker describes having a common ambition among playwrights: seeing a play performed for an audience in London. They then state plainly that this was their own goal and that it has been fulfilled. The tone is straightforward and satisfied, focused on achievement rather than further explanation.
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