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The original play was The Prophetess of Beaumont and Fletcher, straightforward Elizabethan stodge and fustian: and if Betterton, who chose to maltreat it, was bent on making the very worst play ever written, it must be conceded that his success was nearly complete. It gets down to the plane of pure and sparkling idiocy that the world admires in, say, "The Merry Widow."
He would have told you that he wanted congenial society. But congenial female society to an ambitious man whose heart is yet untouched is only society that, in some sense, understands his greatness and admires his wisdom. In the old home they were looking for the son.
It is very amusing to elders to hear a boy scarcely in his teens talking of "his best girl," or to see the little lass wearing the colour or ornament that her chosen lad admires.
And whom did you meet at Hazeldean?" "There was no one there, sir; not even Frank." "Hum. Is the squire not on good terms with his parson? Any quarrel about tithes?" "Oh, no quarrel. I forgot Mr. Dale; I saw him pretty often. He admires and praises you very much, sir." "Me and why? What did he say of me?"
"D'you think children a household that sort of thing d'you think that'll satisfy her? Mind, I'm out all day." "She would certainly be very competent," Henry stated. "Oh, she's wonderfully competent," said Rodney. "But I get absorbed in my poetry. Well, Katharine hasn't got that. She admires my poetry, you know, but that wouldn't be enough for her?" "No," said Henry. He paused.
"And especially when she admires the DUNCAN," replied Glenarvan. "Well, really," said Lady Glenarvan, "you are so proud of your yacht that you make me wish to look all over it; and I should like to go down and see how our brave men are lodged." "Their quarters are first-rate," replied John, "they are as comfortable as if they were at home."
Then, final, they cries an' makes up; an' then they both concedes that one way an' another they're the best two people each other ever sees. At this juncture, concloods Nell, 'I declar's myse'f in on the play; an' we-all three sets down an' admires Enright Peets an' visits an' has a splendid afternoon. "'An' wherever doorin' this emute is Dave? asks Enright. "'Oh, Dave? says Nell.
And whom did you meet at Hazeldean?" "There was no one there, sir; not even Frank." "Hum. Is the squire not on good terms with his parson? Any quarrel about tithes?" "Oh, no quarrel. I forgot Mr. Dale; I saw him pretty often. He admires and praises you very much, sir." "Me and why? What did he say of me?"
Everyone admires a liberal man; indeed, it is questionable whether admiration for this quality may not sometimes blind us to other things in the same persons which are actual faults, and hence a man may be intemperate or profane or worldly, and people say, "Well, but he is such a generous fellow," and that is taken as mitigation of his faults: thus he is allowed to indulge in many wrongs, because he has one excellency in his character.
Has he all that the world loves and admires and covets? he must cast behind him their admiration, and afflict them by faithfulness to his truth, and become a byword and a hissing. This law writes the laws of cities and nations. It is in vain to build or plot or combine against it. Things refuse to be mismanaged long. Res nolunt diu male administrari.
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