She was most good-naturedly amenable.

But when she was thus driven against her nature and habits to speak out, all the excellence of her acting was gone.

The meaning of the words was taken out of them.
Sir Anthony Absolute became, as I said, my stock part.

And the phrase is justified by my having acted it many years afterwards in a totally different company--I the only remaining brick of the old edifice--and to audiences not one of whom could have witnessed the performances of those earlier days.

Mrs.Richie, an American lady--who had, I think, been known on a London stage under the name of "Mowatt"-- was in those latter days, now so far away in the dim past, our manageress.