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Pleasure is temporary, happiness is continuous; pleasure is a note, happiness is a symphony; pleasure may exist when conscience utters protests; happiness, never. Pleasure may have its dregs and its lees; but none can be found in the cup of happiness. Man is the only animal that can be really happy. To the rest of the creation belong only weak imitations of the understudies.

"He is the chief. The other two are really assistants sort of understudies, you know." At that moment the man straightened up, stood for an instant with his eyes still on his work, then, as he was turning to another part of the intricate mechanism, he saw them. "Hello, Charlie!" said the grinning manager, and to his sister, "Surely you haven't forgotten Captain Martin, Helen?"

You've looked into the affairs of the company and you know there isn't any one in that office Wellwood or any of his understudies that really knows his business. Now you think I'm the man you want, but it's your opener. It's for you to say what you expect done, and how much you'll give to get it done.

For his human comedy he often lacked actors, and had to resign himself frequently to making the understudies play.

Like a true expert Mrs. Beamish had not tolerated understudies: none but the lowliest jobs, such as raisin-stoning or potato-peeling, had fallen to the three girls' share: and in face of her first fowl Polly stood helpless and dismayed. But not for long. Sarah was applied to for the best cookery-book on sale in Melbourne, and when this arrived, Polly gave herself up to the study of it.

Mr. Elton adds, "We cannot be sure that Taylor was taught by Shakespeare himself. It is Mr. Lowen, that had his instruction "from Mr. Shakespear himself." Lowin, or Lowen, joined Shakespeare's Company in 1604, being then a man of twenty-eight. Burbage was the natural man for Hamlet and Henry VIII; but it is not unusual for actors to have "understudies."

"Oh!" she exclaimed, in an instinctively statuesque surprise; "I didn't know you were entertaining company." "Come right in, Harriet," Mrs. Polder heartily proclaimed. "Miss Jannan, Mr. Penny, this is Isabella's friend, Harriet de Barry, a near neighbour and a sweet girl. She's an actress, too; understudies Vivian Blane; and is better, lots say, than the lead."

"I think that's Lady X.," one of them said, as a lady, driving a pair of high-steppers, passed. But it wasn't. The little fellow sitting beside her glowed with the importance of proprietorship; but, smart little chap that he was in Throgmorton Street, he had no idea how many understudies there were to his part, and did not realise that there are syndicates outside those of the City.

Rathby, "but it is the kindest in the end. Rest is what you need." "Then I can't go to rehearsal in the morning?" "Certainly not. I must forbid it as your physician. Can't you get a few days off?" Mr. DeVere shook his head. "Aren't there such things as understudies? Seems to me I have heard of them," persisted the physician. "I I wouldn't like to have to put one on," said the actor.

"Molly is almost painfully thin," his companion conceded, with apparent reluctance, "and I think she makes up far more than she need." "Bad for the complexion in time, I suppose," he observed. "I don't know. Molly's been doing it for a great many years. She understudies me, you know, at the theatre. Would you like me to send you word if ever I'm unable to play?"