When this had died despairingly, the girl surveyed her pupil with friendly but doubting eyes.
"Say, Pa, don't he remind you of someone?
Remember the squirrel that joined out with us one time in the rep show and left 'East Lynne' flat right in the middle of the third act while he went down and announced the next night's play--the one that his name was Eddie Duffy and he called himself Clyde Maltravers ?" "In a way, in a way," agreed Mr.Montague dismally.

"A certain lack of finish in the manner, perhaps." "Remember how Charlie Dickman, the manager, nearly murdered him for it in the wings?
Not that Charlie didn't have a right to.

Well, this boy dances like Eddie Duffy would have danced." "He was undeniably awkward and forgetful," said Mr.Montague.

"Well do I recall a later night.

We played Under the Gaslight; Charlie feared to trust him with a part, so he kept the young man off stage to help with the train noise when the down express should dash across.