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But he controlled his excitement, asked his next question casually: "Did she show particular interest in any other player?" "Yes. She asked a number of questions about Polly Beale, and seemed incredulous when I told her that Polly and Clive were engaged. Polly played 'Mrs. Peachum', and was a riot in the part.... But Nita's intuition was correct.
Every eye was turned on Sir Robert's heavy rubicund, impassive face when Peachum sang the verse: "The priest calls the lawyer a cheat, The lawyer be-knaves the divine, And the statesman because he's so great, Thinks his trade as honest as mine!" The statesman in the box, whatever he might have felt, was far too astute to show any sign of ill temper.
Though the main groundwork of his opinions is correct, yet he has a thousand little notions, picked up from old books, which stand out whimsically on the surface of his mind. Thus, in educating his boys, he chose Peachum, Markham, and such old English writers for his manuals.
She was not permitted to pass from beneath its shelter. The canopy kept pace with her, closing behind. And in this way the procession set out to cross Lincoln's Inn Fields amid cheers and shouts of "Pretty Polly Peachum!" It would seem as though the services of Polly's protectors were not wholly unneeded.
Such a thing had never happened before and when the next season the run was continued its attractions were undimmed, save in one particular the original Polly Peachum was no longer to be seen or heard. Gradually it became gossipped about that the Duke of Bolton's suit had succeeded.
Bungay who caused all the mischief between the two; whereas Shandon, who reads for Bungay a good deal, says Mrs. Bacon did the business; but I don't know which is right, Peachum or Lockit.
Unconscious of the destiny awaiting her, Lavinia was employing the same tenderness of look, the same captivating pathos of tone as when two years later she, as Polly Peachum, sang "Oh ponder well," and won the heart of the Duke of Bolton. "H'm, h'm," grunted Mountchance, "you pretty witch. Must I humour ye?" "Of course you must. You're so kind and always ready to help others."
When I pointed out Judge Marshall as 'Peachum', the fence, she cried out suddenly: 'Why, I know him! I met him once on a party.... Is he really a judge? and she laughed as if she knew something very funny about Hugo as no doubt she did. He was an inveterate 'lady-killer' before his marriage, as you may have heard."
To look far below those who, like a certain fair personator of Polly Peachum early in the last century, and another of Lydia Languish early in this, have won not only love but ducal coronets into the bargain, whole shoals of them have reached to the initial satisfaction of getting love almost whence they would.
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