Sketches And Travels in London: to Which Are Added Novels By Eminent Hands, And Character Sketches
Sketches And Travels in London: to Which Are Added Novels By Eminent Hands, And Character Sketches
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863
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You and Smith won't care for each other, very probably; but you'll remember all the actors and the plot of this piece we are seeing. I protest I have forgotten it myself. In our baiok row we could not see or hear much of the performance (and no great loss) — fitful burets of elocution only occasionally reaching us, in which we could recognise the well-known nasal twang of the excellent Mr. Stupor, who performed the part of the young hero; or the ring- A NiaHT*S FLEASimS. 189 ng laughter of Mrs.... Belmore, who had to giggle through he whole piece. It was one of Mr. Boyster's comedies of English life. SVank l^ightrake (Stupor) and his Mend Bob Fitzofiey, ippeared in the first scene, haying a conversation with hat impossible yalet of English Comedy, whom any gentleman would turn out of doors before he could get hxough half a length of the dialogue assigned. I caught mly a glimpse of this act Bob, like a fashionable roung dog of the aristocracy (the character was played >y Bulger, a meritorious man, but very stout, and nearly ifty years of age), was dressed in a rhubarb-coloured >ody-coat with brass buttons, a couple of under waist- coats, a blue satin stock with a paste brooch in it, and m eighteenpenny cane, which he never let out of his land, and with which he poked fun at everybody.
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