Kitty here hates Peggy because Rich has breeched her, whereas Kitty, who now sets up for a prude, wanted to put delicacy off and small-clothes on in Peg's stead, that is where the Kate and Peg shoe pinches, near the femoral artery, James.
"Shrimps have the souls of shrimps," resumed this _censor castigatorque minorum._ "Listen to me, and learn that really great actors are great in soul, and do not blubber like a great school-girl because Anne Bellamy has two yellow silk dresses from Paris, as I saw Woffington blubber in this room, and would not be comforted; nor fume like Kitty Clive, because Woffington has a pair of breeches and a little boy's rapier to go a playing at acting with.

When I was young, two giantesses fought for empire upon this very stage, where now dwarfs crack and bounce like parched peas.

They played Roxana and Statira in the 'Rival Queens.' Rival queens of art themselves, they put out all their strength.

In the middle of the last act the town gave judgment in favor of Statira.

What did Roxana?
Did she spill grease on Statira's robe, as Peg Woffington would?
or stab her, as I believe Kitty here capable of doing?
No! Statira was never so tenderly killed as that night; she owned this to me.