CHAPTER IX.
THE LEGACY .-- A NEW DEFORMITY IN SAVILLE .-- THE NATURE OF WORLDLY LIAISONS .-- GODOLPHIN LEAVES ENGLAND.
But then, it is not always a sustainer of the stage delusion to be enamoured of an actress: it takes us too much behind the scenes.
Godolphin felt this so strongly that he liked those plays least in which Fanny performed.

Off the stage her character had so little romance, that he could not deceive himself into the romance of her character before the lamps.

Luckily, however, Fanny did not attempt Shakspeare.

She was inimitable in vaudeville, in farce, and in the lighter comedy; but she had prudently abandoned tragedy in deserting the barn.

She was a girl of much talent and quickness, and discovered exactly the paths in which her vanity could walk without being wounded.