Wait here a few minutes and then you shall take me to your mother." Gay crossed the room to his friends, and they talked together in low voices.

Spiller and Leveridge had much to say--indeed it was to these two, who had practical knowledge of the theatre, to whom he appealed.
Bolingbroke sat silently listening.
Gay's project concerning his new found protegee was such as would only have entered into the brain of a dreamy and impecunious poet.

He saw in Lavinia Fenton the making of a fine actress--not in tragedy but in comedy--and of an enchanting singer.

But to be proficient she must be taught not only music, but how to pronounce the English language properly.

She had to a certain extent picked up the accent of the vulgar.