Tales Of A Traveller, By Washington Irving

















































































































 -  I discovered
that there were cabals breaking out in the company, headed by the
clown, who you may recollect was - Page 231
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I Discovered That There Were Cabals Breaking Out In The Company, Headed By The Clown, Who You May Recollect Was A Terribly Peevish, Fractious Fellow, And Always In Ill-Humor.

I had a great mind to turn him off at once, but I could not do without him, for there was not a droller scoundrel on the stage.

His very shape was comic, for he had to turn his back upon the audience and all the ladies were ready to die with laughing. He felt his importance, and took advantage of it. He would keep the audience in a continual roar, and then come behind the scenes and fret and fume and play the very devil. I excused a great deal in him, however, knowing that comic actors are a little prone to this infirmity of temper.

I had another trouble of a nearer and dearer nature to struggle with; which was, the affection of my wife. As ill luck would have it, she took it into her head to be very fond of me, and became intolerably jealous. I could not keep a pretty girl in the company, and hardly dared embrace an ugly one, even when my part required it. I have known her to reduce a fine lady to tatters, "to very rags," as Hamlet says, in an instant, and destroy one of the very best dresses in the wardrobe; merely because she saw me kiss her at the side scenes; - though I give you my honor it was done merely by way of rehearsal.

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