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'It's the phenomenon, depend upon it, sir, said Crummles, dragging Nicholas to the little hole in the curtain that he might look through at the London manager. 'I have not the smallest doubt it's the fame of the phenomenon that's the man; him in the great-coat and no shirt-collar. She shall have ten pound a week, Johnson; she shall not appear on the London boards for a farthing less.

'Is this a theatre? whispered Smike, in amazement; 'I thought it was a blaze of light and finery. 'Why, so it is, replied Nicholas, hardly less surprised; 'but not by day, Smike not by day. 'I am glad to see you, sir, said Mrs Vincent Crummles, in a sepulchral voice. 'I am very glad to see you, and still more happy to hail you as a promising member of our corps.

And so I called on the manager, with a beating heart, as you may suppose. He was a small, quiet, gentlemanly person, whom I regret I cannot, consistently with historical truth, show up as a Crummles. But not even Dickens could have found any salient trait for ridicule in the man.

With these hasty general directions Mr Crummles thrust a number of little books into the faltering hands of Nicholas, and bidding his eldest son go with him and show where lodgings were to be had, shook him by the hand, and wished him good night.

Miss Snevellicci was in such a perspiration that the paint would scarcely stay on her face. Mrs Crummles was so nervous that she could hardly remember her part. Miss Bravassa's ringlets came out of curl with the heat and anxiety; even Mr Crummles himself kept peeping through the hole in the curtain, and running back, every now and then, to announce that another man had come into the pit.

"The Blood Drinker," added Mr Crummles with a prophetic sigh, "The Blood Drinker" will die with that girl; and she's the only sylph I ever saw, who could stand upon one leg, and play the tambourine on her other knee, LIKE a sylph. 'When does she come down? asked Nicholas. 'We expect her today, replied Mr Crummles. 'She is an old friend of Mrs Crummles's.

Almost immediately afterwards, Master Percy Crummles entered with a letter, which had arrived by the General Post, and was directed to his gracious mother; at sight of the superscription whereof, Mrs Crummles exclaimed, 'From Henrietta Petowker, I do declare! and instantly became absorbed in the contents. 'Is it ? inquired Mr Crummles, hesitating.

Mrs Crummles trod the pavement as if she were going to immediate execution with an animating consciousness of innocence, and that heroic fortitude which virtue alone inspires.

Nicholas could not help thinking that, for the first week, it would be an uncommon convenience to have a turn-up bedstead in the pit, but he merely remarked that he had not turned his thoughts that way. 'Come home with me then, said Mr Crummles, 'and my boys shall go with you after dinner, and show you the most likely place.

Of the Proceedings of Nicholas, and certain Internal Divisions in the Company of Mr Vincent Crummles