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'That'll be a double ENCORE if you take care, boys, said Mr Crummles. 'You had better get your wind now and change your clothes. 'What did you think of that, sir? inquired Mr Crummles. 'Very good, indeed capital, answered Nicholas. 'You won't see such boys as those very often, I think, said Mr Crummles. Nicholas assented observing that if they were a little better match
He paused a moment, then said, with sudden gravity and resignation and even a sort of half business-like air, "Wife, ye may make my shroud, and sew it and all; but I wouldn't buy the stuff of Bess Crummles; she is an ill-tongued woman, and came near making mischief between you and me last Lammermas as ever was." "Shroud!" cried Mrs. Eaves, getting seriously alarmed.
At length the London manager was discovered to be asleep, and shortly after that he woke up and went away, whereupon all the company fell foul of the unhappy comic countryman, declaring that his buffoonery was the sole cause; and Mr Crummles said, that he had put up with it a long time, but that he really couldn't stand it any longer, and therefore would feel obliged by his looking out for another engagement.
Nicholas was thus left at leisure to entertain himself with his own thoughts, until they arrived at the drawbridge at Portsmouth, when Mr Crummles pulled up. 'We'll get down here, said the manager, 'and the boys will take him round to the stable, and call at my lodgings with the luggage. You had better let yours be taken there, for the present.
We have had complimentary letters about this girl, sir, from the nobility and gentry of almost every town in England." "I am not surprised at that," said Nicholas; "she must be quite a natural genius." "Quite a !" Mr. Crummles stopped: language was not powerful enough to describe the Infant Phenomenon. "I'll tell you what, sir," he said; "the talent of this child is not to be imagined.
In fact, Mr Crummles, who could never lose any opportunity for professional display, had turned out for the express purpose of taking a public farewell of Nicholas; and to render it the more imposing, he was now, to that young gentleman's most profound annoyance, inflicting upon him a rapid succession of stage embraces, which, as everybody knows, are performed by the embracer's laying his or her chin on the shoulder of the object of affection, and looking over it.
That lady seemed to think very little about it, for the supper being by this time on table, she gave her hand to Nicholas and repaired with a stately step to the left hand of Mr Snittle Timberry. Nicholas had the honour to support her, and Mr Crummles was placed upon the chairman's right; the Phenomenon and the Master Crummleses sustained the vice.
The very first time I saw that admirable woman, Johnson, said Mr Crummles, drawing a little nearer, and speaking in the tone of confidential friendship, 'she stood upon her head on the butt-end of a spear, surrounded with blazing fireworks. 'You astonish me! said Nicholas. 'SHE astonished ME! returned Mr Crummles, with a very serious countenance. 'Such grace, coupled with such dignity!
He should have kept upon this circuit; he'd have been very useful to me. But he don't know what's good for him. He is an impetuous youth. Young men are rash, very rash. Mr Crummles being in a moralising mood, might possibly have moralised for some minutes longer if he had not mechanically put his hand towards his waistcoat pocket, where he was accustomed to keep his snuff.
'Is any parallel attempted to be drawn in this company between matrimony and hanging? 'The noose, you know, said Mr Folair, a little crest-fallen. 'The noose, sir? retorted Mr Lillyvick. 'Does any man dare to speak to me of a noose, and Henrietta Pe 'Lillyvick, suggested Mr Crummles. And Henrietta Lillyvick in the same breath? said the collector.
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