But the play is going to begin, I believe.

The hall is well filled now, and I'm not trying to make an appeal to your local pride, Lennox, when I tell you 'tis an audience that will compare well with one at Drury Lane or Covent Garden for splendor, and for variety 'twill excel it." Robert was pleased secretly.

Although more identified with Albany than New York, he considered himself nevertheless one of the people who belonged to the city at the mouth of the Hudson, and he felt already its coming greatness.
"We call ourselves Englishmen," he said modestly, "and we hope to achieve as much as the older Englishmen, our brethren across the seas." "Have you seen many plays, Lennox ?" "But few, and none by great actors like Mr.Hallam and Mrs.Douglas.

I suppose, Grosvenor, you've seen so many that they're no novelty to you." "I can scarcely lay claim to being such a man about town as that.

I have seen plays, of course, and some by the great Master Will, and I do confess that the mock life I behold beyond the footlights often thrills me more than the real life I see this side of them.