CHAPTER VI.
MACHIAVEL entered the green-room, intending to wait for Mrs.Woffington, and carry out the second part of his plan.
He knew that weak minds cannot make head against ridicule, and with this pickax he proposed to clear the way, before he came to grave, sensible, business love with the lady.

Machiavel was a man of talent.

If he has been a silent personage hitherto, it is merely because it was not his cue to talk, but listen; otherwise, he was rather a master of the art of speech.

He could be insinuating, eloquent, sensible, or satirical, at will.

This personage sat in the green-room.