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Garrick, "and her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales, and his Majesty too." Poor Sampson owned that he, buoyed up by vain hopes, had promised the appearance of these august personages. The next day, at rehearsal, matters were worse still, and the manager in a fury. "Great heavens, sir!" says he, "into what a pretty guet-a-pens have you led me! Look at that letter, sir! read that letter!"
"What mean you, my lord?" says the Prince, and muttered something about a guet-a-pens, which Esmond caught up. "The snare, Sir," said he, "was not of our laying; it is not we that invited you. We came to avenge, and not to compass, the dishonor of our family." "Dishonor! Morbleu, there has been no dishonor," says the Prince, turning scarlet, "only a little harmless playing."
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