The whole thing was over twenty minutes sooner than the time we had calculated on.

She carried it through to the end, and fainted on the waiting-room sofa a minute after the curtain was down.

The music-seller having taken leave of his senses from sheer astonishment, and I having no evening costume to appear in, we sent the doctor to make the necessary apology to the public, who were calling for her till the place rang again.

I prompted our medical orator with a neat speech from behind the curtain; and I never heard such applause, from such a comparatively small audience, before in my life.

I felt the tribute--I felt it deeply.