You drew deeper into your wound a barbed shaft, like--( any wild animal will do, no one of them is such an ass, so you had an equal title to all).

And on looking back you saw with horrible complacency that you had inflicted one hundred locusts, five feet long, upon oppressed humanity.
Wont to travel over acres of canvas for a few shillings, and roods of paper on bare speculation, Triplet knew he could make a thousand a year at the above work without thinking.
He came therefore to the box-keeper with his eyes glittering.
"Mr.Vane ?" "Just gone out with a gentleman." "I'll wait then." Now Mr.Vane, we know, was in the green-room, and went home by the stage-door.

The last thing he thought of was poor Triplet; the rich do not dream how they disappoint the poor.

Triplet's castle fell as many a predecessor had.

When the lights were put out, he left the theater with a bitter sigh.
"If this gentleman knew how many sweet children I have, and what a good, patient, suffering wife, sure he would not have chosen me to make a fool of!" said the poor fellow to himself.
In Bow Street, he turned, and looked back upon the theater.