. Reminiscences of Toole; related by himself, and chronicled by Joseph Hatton. Illustrated by Alfred Bryan and Margetson. anger guest say grace ? Compton was staggered for a moment, all thegrace he knew slipping at once straight out of hismemory. Like myself, he was a church-goer ; andin the emergency a familiar passage from thePrayer Book occurred to him as not unsuitable tothe occasion, and the clergy accepted the newform of grace as a bit of clerical eccentricity. O Lord, open Thou our lips, said Compton, and our mouth shall show forth Thy praise. II. By the way, you were speaking
. Reminiscences of Toole; related by himself, and chronicled by Joseph Hatton. Illustrated by Alfred Bryan and Margetson. anger guest say grace ? Compton was staggered for a moment, all thegrace he knew slipping at once straight out of hismemory. Like myself, he was a church-goer ; andin the emergency a familiar passage from thePrayer Book occurred to him as not unsuitable tothe occasion, and the clergy accepted the newform of grace as a bit of clerical eccentricity. O Lord, open Thou our lips, said Compton, and our mouth shall show forth Thy praise. II. By the way, you were speaking about Macreadyas we drove along, said Toole presently. * I called on him at Cheltenham. It had beensaid that he was not over-polite to some of theprofession, and in a general way that he was ex-clusive and difficult of approach. I found him the COMBINING BUSINESS WITH PLEASURE. 153 Opposite of all this ; a fine, distinguished old man,white hair, very courteous, and with a most plea-sant smile, a trifle melancholy perhaps—a touch ofWerner, but a gentle and human touch. We hada long chat; he spoke of his last appearance, and. MR. MACREADV, I said how I honoured him for making it his lastwhen he said it was, the more so that I knew hehad had many tremendous offers to induce him toreappear. And, of course, this was very honour-able in Macready, seeing that he had managedDrury Lane often at a loss, in the interests of art,and only retired just in time to keep a remnant of 154 REMINISCENCES OF J. L. TOOLE. his fortune to live upon in a quiet way. Con-sidering that he was not rich, there was somethingvery dignified in refusing offers of great and certainsums to appear again, especially in the face ofexamples of ladies and gentlemen, operatic andotherwise, taking not one farewell but half a talked about his children, and referred to hisnot allowing them to go to the theatre, and said,by the advice of Charles Dickens and John Forster,he was glad that he had at last been indu
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