CHAPTER VI.
Wherein the historian tracks the public characters that fret their hour on the stage, into the bosom of private life .-- The reader is invited to arrive at a conclusion which may often, in periods of perplexity, restore ease to his mind; namely, that if man will reflect on all the hopes he has nourished, all the fears he has admitted, all the projects he has formed, the wisest thing he can do, nine times out of ten, with hope, fear, and project, is to let them end with the chapter--in smoke.
It was past nine o'clock in the evening of the following day.

The exhibition at Mr.Rugge's theatre had closed for the season in that village, for it was the conclusion of the fair.

The final performance had been begun and ended somewhat earlier than on former nights.

The theatre was to be cleared from the ground by daybreak, and the whole company to proceed onward betimes in the morning.

Another fair awaited them in an adjoining county, and they had a long journey before them.
Gentleman Waife and his Juliet Araminta had gone to their lodgings over the Cobbler's stall.