Ah! ah! ah! here it is again" (scream and pinch, as before).

"Do take me from this horrid place, where monsters come from the great deep." And she flounced away, looking daggers askant at the place the rat had vacated in equal terror.
All this was silly, but it pleases us men, and contrast is so charming! This same fool was brimful of talent--and cunning, too, for that matter.
She played late that night, and Mr.Vane saw the same creature, who dared not stay where she was liable to a distant rat, spring upon the stage as a gay rake, and flash out her rapier, and act valor's king to the life, and seem ready to eat up everybody, King Fear included; and then, after her brilliant sally upon the public, Sir Harry Wildair came and stood beside Mr.Vane.Her bright skin, contrasted with her powdered periwig, became dazzling.

She used little rouge, but that little made her eyes two balls of black lightning.

From her high instep to her polished forehead, all was symmetry.

Her leg would have been a sculptor's glory; and the curve from her waist to her knee was Hogarth's line itself.
She stood like Mercury new lighted on a heaven-kissing hill.