14/37 "Have the comedians arrived ?" "I should think they had. There's that Lokodi with four others. He himself plays the heroic parts; a spindle-shanked, barber's apprentice sort of fellow, takes the aged father parts; and there's a matron, well advanced in years, who acts the young missies. They are now making ready to give a representation this evening. When your honours are all dining in the Large Room they are going to act the _Marriage of Dobozy_ in twelve tableaux, to the accompaniment of Greek fire, in the front room." "But why in the front room, and not rather in the theatre ?" "It is too small." "But there are only five of them." "True; but all the heydukes we have must be there too, either as Turks or Hungarians. |