Peg Woffington

etained in the country muc

ehand, he came up with an antediluvian coach, stuck fast by the road-side. Looking into the window, with the humane design of quizzing the elders

se sluices, her eyes, and two tears gently trickled down, while she told

oped to a farm-house in sight, and returned with ropes and rustics. Thes

thanked him, with heightening color and b

nsdon, and ordered him to ride back past the carriage, then follow and put up at the same inn, to learn who the lady was, and whither going; and, this knowled

eping a copy of his last, he always knew where he was. Cupid's barometer rose by rule; and so he arrived by just gradations at an artful climax, and made her in terms of chivalrous affe

orego a position for any disinterested penchant. Still, as he was a close player, he determined t

idicule him to her," resolved th

ouse. After the usual compliments, some such dialogue a

t really in the pow

are colors? She is like that sisterhood in nothing but a name. Even on the stage they have n

ranquille. They have artifice-nature's l

cried the poetical lover; "theirs ar

aid the satirist; "she is rat

lineament; theirs are ro

t made, mounted, and

untain of tr

eys it without spilli

angel of ta

devil of

divinity t

wn," continued Sir Charles. "She is a fair actress on the boards, and a g

y do that," sai

blush. Ask her for the l

uickened his step, as if

t; "and he, who has no prejudice, paid

." Sir Charles continued in a more solemn tone: "Pray be warned. Why is it every man

ibed, brought an expression of pain to Mr. Vane's face. He sai

e full of feeling: "Ah! I give you pain! But you are right; thi

age he had been playing upon walked down to the rive

k loose from confinement; so anxious, sad, fearful and bitter were th

r Charles who has the power to shake Mr. Vane so without som