But I tak' my work seriously.

I couldna keep on doing it did I not, and that's what sae many canna understand.

They think a man at whom the public maun laugh if he's to rate himsel' a success must always be comical; that he can never do a serious thing.

It is a mistaken idea altogether, yon.
I'm thinking Wull Morris must ha' breathed easier, just as did I, the morning after that first nicht show o' mine.

He'd been verra sure-- but, man, he stood to lose a lot o' siller if he'd found he'd backed the wrang horse! I was glad for his sake as well as my own that he had not.
After the start my first engagement in New York was one long triumph.
I could ha' stayed much longer than I did, but there were twa reasons against making any change in the plans that had been arranged.