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883 appearances--and that, incidental to the piece, was a characteristic dance by the characters, and a castanet pas seul by the Infant Phenomenon--her last appearance--he no longer entertained any doubt; and presenting himself at the stage-door, and sending in a scrap of paper with ‘Mr Johnson’ written thereon in pencil, was presently conducted by a Robber, with a very large belt and buckle round his waist, and very large leather gauntlets on his hands, into the presence of his former manager. Mr Crummles was unfeignedly glad to see him, and starting up from before a small dressing-glass, with one very bushy eyebrow stuck on crooked over his left eye, and the fellow eyebrow and the calf of one of his legs in his hand, embraced him cordially; at the same time observing, that it would do Mrs Crummles’s heart good to bid him goodbye before they went. ‘You were always a favourite of hers, Johnson,’ said Crummles, ‘always were from the first. I was quite easy in my mind about you from that first day you dined with us. One that Mrs Crummles took a fancy to, was sure to turn out right. Ah! Johnson, what a woman that is!’ ‘I am sincerely obliged to her for her kindness in this and all other respects,’ said Nicholas. ‘But where are you going,’ that you talk about bidding goodbye?’ ‘Haven’t you seen it in the papers?’ said Crummles, with some dignity. ‘No,’ replied Nicholas. ‘I wonder at that,’ said the manager. ‘It was among the varieties. I had the paragraph here somewhere--but I don’t know--oh, yes, here it is.’ So saying, Mr Crummles, after pretending that he thought he |
