It must be grand to write books.

I should like it, I think, better than acting.

You need only depend on yourself; but in acting you're always depending on some one else, and you get in such a rage when all your own grand ideas are spoilt because the leading gentleman won't do anything different from what he has been used to, or the next lady wants to show off, or the stage manager has a grudge against you! Something always happens.' 'Apparently the only thing that always happens to you is success,' said Kendal, rather hating himself for the cheapness of the compliment.

'I hear wonderful reports of the difficulty of getting a seat at the _Calliope_; and his friends tell me that Mr.Robinson looks ten years younger.

Poor man! it is time that fortune smiled on him.' 'Yes, indeed; he had a bad time last year.