He indicated the attitudes, and set and moved those beautiful arms of hers.

Those who remember this grand actress on the stage can recall how she used always precisely the same gestures, looks, and tones; how she stood on the same plank of the stage in the same position, rolled her eyes at the same instant and to the same degree, and wept with precisely the same heart-rending pathos and over the same pathetic syllable.

And after she had come out trembling with emotion before the audience, and looking so exhausted and tearful that you fancied she would faint with sensibility, she would gather up her hair the instant she was behind the curtain, and go home to a mutton-chop and a glass of brown stout; and the harrowing labours of the day over, she went to bed and snored as resolutely and as regularly as a porter.
Bows then was indignant at the notion that his pupil should throw her chances away in life by bestowing her hand upon a little country squire.
As soon as a London manager saw her he prophesied that she would get a London engagement, and a great success.

The misfortune was that the London managers had seen her.

She had played in London three years before, and failed from utter stupidity.