The weird scene in the mountains fell in admirably with a certain weird note in the Jefferson genius, and supplied the needed element of variety.
I always thought it a good acting play under any circumstances, but, in his hands, matchless.

He thought himself that the piece, as a piece, and regardless of his own acting, deserved better of the critics than they were always willing to give it.

Assuredly, no drama that ever was written, as he played it, ever took such a hold upon the public.

He rendered it to three generations, and to a rising, not a falling, popularity, drawing to the very last undiminished audiences.
Because of this unexampled run he was sometimes described by unthinking people as a one-part actor.

Nothing could be farther from the truth.