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A few confectioners kept their stores open, and a few boxes of bonbons were sold; but presents of potatoes, or small packages of coffee, were by this time more acceptable gifts. Nothing was plenty in Paris but champagne and Colman's mustard.
Suffice it to say the whole thing went off sparkling like a firework. It was short, and made you wish for more a great virtue in speeches and sermons. The dancing-master was perfect. Then came a bit of Colman's "Heir at Law." Dr.
The society of Calcutta assemble to see what progress we are making; and we produce as a sample a boy who repeats some blackguard doggerel of George Colman's, about a fat gentleman who was put to bed over an oven, and about a man-midwife who was called out of his bed by a drunken man at night.
Come, aren't you sorry you kept her sitting all this time among the nettles when she might have been walking to Colman's Weir, and gathering such fine codlings and cream as Mrs. Martindale has there, and all because you would not say a hymn that you knew quite well? Wasn't that a pity? 'Yes, and the eyes looked up ingenuously. 'Come and tell her you are sorry. Won't you?
Colman's humour is infectious and penetrating. In that quality he was original and affluent. As we look along the line of the British dramatists for the last hundred years we shall find no parallel to his felicity in the use of comic inversion and equivoke, till we come to Gilbert. In The Heir at Law he has not only illumined it by the contrast of Dr.
He walked, caught a ride now and then, got a lift on a canal-boat two or three times, ate bread and drank water and slept in barns or under grain-stacks. He came walking into Colman's office one morning looking cheerful but somewhat disreputable. Colman did not know him at first. When they had shaken hands. Colman looked in his friend's shaggy face and asked, "Is it all square, Dan?"
He placed before his audience a truthful picture of old English manners; telling them, in rapid and cheery action, Colman's quaint story in which there is no malice and no bitterness, but in which simple virtue proves superior to temptation, and integrity is strong amid vicissitudes and leaving in their minds, at the last, an amused conviction that indeed "Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time."
The play was then sent, with Colman's comments written on it, to Garrick; but he had scarce sent it when Johnson interfered, represented the evil that might result from an apparent rejection of it by Covent Garden, and undertook to go forthwith to Colman, and have a talk with him on the subject.
If you're going to take on, or put on, you'd better not go in at all." "I'll do my best," said Jane, rather haughtily, for she did not like Mrs. Colman's simple and direct manner. She was used to being treated with deference, especially by the women of Mrs.
For a month past I have not been able to find any work." Colman's face lost something of its graciousness. "And I fear I shall not be able to pay my quarter's rent to-morrow." "Indeed!" said the landlord, coldly. "Perhaps you can make it up within two or three dollars." "I can't pay a dollar toward it," said the cooper.
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