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The Lucky Chance; or, An Alderman's Bargain, produced at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, in 1687, was, with the exception of the disapproval of a certain pudibond clique, received with great favour, and kept the stage for a decade or more. During the summer season of 1718 there was, on 24 July, a revival, 'not acted twenty years, of this witty comedy at Lincoln's Inn Fields.
In the hall a gust from the great opening contention between Alderman's Bouquet and bad beer, stifled his sickly hope. Frantic, but under perfect self-command outwardly, he glanced to right and left, for the suggestion of a means of escape. They were seven steps up the stairs before his wits prompted him to say to Georgiana, "I have just heard very serious news from home. I fear "
When we got back, Lilian came to my room and told me they were all saying downstairs that I had behaved splendidly, and I said I was delighted to hear it, particularly as I did not know how, or when, or where, I had come to deserve such praise. And then she asked me if I knew who it was my husband was with. I said, no; some alderman's wife, I supposed. 'Nothing half so good, she answered.
No one has yet written the poetry of hunger has built up in verse its stairs of grand ascent from such hunger as Gibbie's for a penny-loaf up no, no, not to an alderman's feast; that is the way down the mouldy cellar-stair but up the white marble scale to the hunger after righteousness whose very longings are bliss.
He doted on his son, who certainly did not take after his father so far as looks went, for he was a tall, lanky fellow with a sallow face, the alderman's countenance being as red as raw beef.
I would give you a one-hundred-franc note if I could secure for to-morrow morning your alderman's face and your complexion a la Teniers." "Thanks, we are not masquerading just at present." "Nevertheless, all that you have said does not prove in the slightest that she loves you." "My dear Marillac, words may have escaped me in my anger which have caused you to judge hastily.
She saw some magnificent processions of clergy, she was welcomed at a civic banquet and drank of the loving cup, and she beheld the Lord Mayor's Show in all its picturesque glory of emblazoned barges on the river. In fact, she found the position of denizen of an alderman's household so very agreeable that she did her best to make it a permanency.
Then Mary had been moved to Coventry; then came a last flare of frightening tales: York had fallen; Mary had escaped; Elizabeth was preparing to flee. And then one morning the Alderman's face was brighter: it was all a lie, he said.
But Bow-may stepped forward and said: 'Chief of the Wolf, be of good cheer; our kinswoman is hurt, but not deadly. The Alderman's face changed, and he said: 'Hast thou seen her, Bow- may? 'Nay, she said. 'How should I leave the battle? but others have told me who have seen her. Folk-might stared into the ranks of men before him, but said nothing. Said the Alderman: 'Is she well tended?
Clarke was, as it appears, so much struck with the whimsical nature of this unexpected metamorphosis, and the extraordinary solemnity of his kinsman's demeanour, as to have felt impelled, almost immediately upon entering the room, to snatch the wig from the alderman's head, and throw it against the ceiling: after which this eminent person immediately escaped, and retired to his own apartment.
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