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Paxton could see that so small a matter as a greenhouse could be dilated into a crystal palace, and with two common materials glass and iron he raised the palace of the genii; the brightest idea and the noblest ornament added to Europe in this century the koh-i-noor of the west. Livy's definition of Archimedes goes on the same ground. Peg Woffington was a genius in her way.
"'Tis from a lady, who waits below," said the girl. Mrs. Woffington went again to the window, and there she saw getting out of a coach, and attended by James Burdock, Mabel Vane, who had sent up her name on the back of an old letter. "What shall I do?" said Triplet, as soon as he recovered the first stunning effects of this contretemps. To his astonishment, Mrs.
Vane, to whom the drama had now become the golden branch of letters, looked with some awe on this veteran, for he had seen many Woffingtons. He fell soon upon the subject nearest his heart. He asked Mr. Cibber what he thought of Mrs. Woffington.
"I own I was very much moved by the play, and the beauty and acting of Mrs. Woffington. I was sorry that the poor mother should find her child, and lose him. I am sorry, too, papa, if I oughtn't to have been sorry!" adds the young lady, with a smile. "Women are not so clever as men, you know, Theo," cries Hetty from her end of the table, with a sly look at Harry.
Turning the handle gently, he opened the door like lightning, and was in the room. Vane's head peered over his shoulder. She was actually there! For once in her life, the cautious, artful woman was taken by surprise. She gave a little scream, and turned as red as fire. But Sir Charles surprised somebody else even more than he did poor Mrs. Woffington.
Woffington. "They are not worthy even of a fool like this." Mr. Vane once more pressed her to hear a little music in the garden; and this time she consented. Mr. Vane was far from being unmoved by his wife's arrival, and her true affection.
Sir Charles then resumed his complacency, and cantered into London that same evening. Arrived there, he set himself in earnest to cut out his friend with Mrs. Woffington. He had already caused his correspondence with that lady to grow warm and more tender, by degrees. Keeping a copy of his last, he always knew where he was.
It became necessary to disabuse her and to open your eyes. Have I done so?" "You have, madam," said Vane, wincing at each word she said. But at last, by a mighty effort, he mastered himself, and, coming to Mrs. Woffington with a quivering lip, he held out his hand suddenly in a very manly way. "I have been the dupe of my own vanity," said he, "and I thank you for this lesson." Poor Mrs.
Woffington was in that languid state which comes to women after their hearts have received a blow.
In his hands the divine virtues were thunderbolts, not swans' down. With good sense, plain speaking, and a heart yearning for the souls of his brethren and his sisters, he stormed the bosoms of many; and this afternoon, as he reasoned like Paul of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come, sinners trembled and Margaret Woffington was of those who trembled.
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