"He can dance, I grant you, and posture as no other man can, and he thinks he can act! I heard him once at a party of friends.

My good Spiller, if his vanity ever prompted him to air his voice on the stage, the people would think he was mocking them, and one half would laugh and the other half boo and hiss." "I know--I know.

Still, he holds command, and he likes his own way, no man better." "No doubt, but whatever a man wills he has to give up when a woman says yea or nay.

My good duchess means to have a word with him over the songs." "If that's so John Rich had better capitulate at once.

He's as good as beaten." Lavinia could only catch a word of this talk here and there.